Blast in northeastern Nigeria injures 11 people, say police
ABUJA – A blast in the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern Taraba state on Friday evening injured 11 people including children, police said, days after an explosion claimed by Islamic State…
ABUJA – A blast in the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern Taraba state on Friday evening injured 11 people including children, police said, days after an explosion claimed by Islamic State…
(Reuters) – An artillery strike on the front line town of Zolote in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region killed two civilians on Saturday and wounded two others, Governor Serhiy Haidai said…
(Reuters) – A missile struck infrastructure in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Saturday, the local authorities said in an online statement without giving further details. “Odesa was hit…
BEIRUT -The Association of Banks in Lebanon said on Saturday it “completely rejects” the government’s latest draft of a financial recovery plan meant to pull the country out of an…
(Reuters) – Former Springbok loose-forward Pedrie Wannenburg has been killed in a car accident in Texas, his former South African franchise the Bulls said on Saturday. Wannenburg, 41, played 20…
WASHINGTON -President Joe Biden intends to nominate career diplomat Michael Ratney to be U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the White House said on Friday, amid strained relations between Washington and…
PARIS – Major French trade unions said in a joint statement on Friday that a proposed pay rise for workers in the logistics sector was “unacceptable” and that they had…
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON -U.S. and Cuban officials met in Washington for talks about migration on Thursday as the United States seeks to quell rising numbers of people attempting to…
BEIJING -A Chinese court sentenced U.S. citizen Shadeed Abdulmateen to death on Thursday for intentional homicide of a 21-year-old woman, his former girlfriend, state broadcaster CCTV reported. In its verdict…
(Reuters) – New York Democrats violated the state’s constitution when they drew maps of Congressional districts that favored their party over Republicans, a state appeals court ruled on Thursday, in…
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture will put $420 million of funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law towards rehabilitating dams, preventing floods, and restoring watersheds in…
By Mark Miller (Reuters) – The Great Retirement is morphing into the Great Return, with the U.S. employment report for March, released earlier this month, showing a jump back into…
BOAO, China – China should launch a pilot “connect” market access programme for carbon with Hong Kong to enable foreign investors to enter the country’s fast-growing green finance sector, a…
(Reuters) -An Ohio jury on Wednesday found Dr. William Husel, who had been accused of giving patients lethal doses of fentanyl, not guilty of 14 counts of murder, the Columbus…
PANAMA CITY – The United States will explore the possibility of resuming migration accords with Cuba, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Wednesday. Mayorkas was speaking during a…
LONDON -A derivatives panel has ruled on Wednesday that Russia could be in default after it failed to make a payment due on April 4 in U.S. dollars on two…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secret Service officers fatally shot an intruder at the Peruvian ambassador’s residence after a confrontation on Wednesday morning following a reported burglary attempt, authorities said. The ambassador,…
(Reuters) -The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday urged the Senate to delay consideration of President Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission nominee Alvaro Bedoya, accusing the current FTC leadership of…
BEIJING – China’s exports to North Korea surged in January-March with sales of edible oil, wheat flour and pharmaceutical compounds to its reclusive neighbour sky-rocketing after a COVID-induced pause, Chinese…
HONG KONG – Most financial institutions operating in Asia will take until next year to remove references to the Libor benchmark in loan agreements, an industry survey found, though most…
(Reuters) -Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana reported two injuries along with a small fire from a natural gas pipeline explosion on the East Reservation of the base on Tuesday.…
(Reuters) – More than a quarter of a million homes and businesses in Northeast United States were without power on Tuesday after a spring storm packing powerful winds and heavy,…
ZURICH – The head of Credit Suisse’s securities joint venture in China, Tim Tu, has stepped down to pursue other opportunities within the Swiss bank, a spokeswoman said. Daniel Qiu has…
BEIJING – China’s state asset regulator vowed on Tuesday to ensure that the debt risks of centrally administered state-owned enterprises are controllable. Peng Huagang, spokesman for the State-owned Assets Supervision…
By RachnaManojkumar Dhanrajani and Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES -Louisiana authorities lifted a shelter-in-place order within five hours of issuing it after a chlorine leak on Monday. A fire and chlorine…