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US President Donald Trump has announced new details and initial funding for his "Golden Dome" missile shield system, with geopolitical rival China accusing Washington on Wednesday of undermining global stability.Trump on Tuesday announced $25 billion earmarked for the project, which he sai...
The World Bank has said it would restart operations in Syria following a 14-year pause, after Saudi Arabia and Qatar had paid off the country's outstanding debts.The Bank's operations in Syria were halted when the civil war broke out in 2011, preventing the country from accessing its develop...
World,Back Page
The European Union is ready to respond if new trade tensions emerge with Washington, the EU ambassador to the United States said Friday, two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.While the bloc is looking into areas of cooperation, if there are trade frictions "the European Un...
National,Back Page
US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday made his first cabinet appointment after his decisive election win, while signaling his intent to ditch the outgoing administration's policies by talking to Vladimir Putin.Trump's campaign manager Susie Wiles will serve as his White House chief of ...
US President Joe Biden will attend two key summits and visit the Amazon rainforest in South America this month, the White House said Thursday, in a trip totally overshadowed by Donald Trump's election win.Biden's swansong at the G20 summit in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and the APEC meeting in Li...
National,Front Page
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter the final weekend of the most tense US presidential campaign of modern times with a flurry of swing-state rallies that will test their stamina -- and ability to persuade the country's last undecided voters.Harris, bidding to become the country's first wom...
Business
Standard and Poor's upgraded Turkey's long-term sovereign credit rating on Friday from B+ to BB-, with the agency noting economic progress thanks to the central bank's "tight monetary stance."That stance "has enabled Turkish authorities to stabilize the lira, bring down in...
The United States announced Friday the deployment of additional military assets to the Middle East, including ballistic missile defense destroyers and long-range B-52 bomber aircraft, serving as a warning to Iran as it and Israel trade tit-for-tat strikes."Should Iran, its partners, or its prox...
US President Joe Biden came under fire Tuesday for appearing to refer to Republican Donald Trump's supporters as "garbage" during an election campaign call.Speaking in a video call with the nonprofit VotoLatino, Biden addressed the controversy that erupted after one of Trump's warm...
Kamala Harris will urge Americans to turn the page on Donald Trump as she delivers her closing election argument Tuesday on the spot where her rival rallied supporters before the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack.With polls in a dead heat exactly one week before Election Day, the Democratic vice pre...
US Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are hurtling toward their November 5 election showdown, one of the closest contests in modern American history.And in the handful of critical states framing the 2024 race, there is little daylight between the rivals with barely a week...
G7 leaders have finalized details surrounding a $50 billion loan to aid Kyiv, backed by profits from Russian sovereign assets frozen after its invasion of Ukraine, according to a statement released Friday.Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies said they "have reached a consensus on h...
The IMF wants to know more about a cross-border payments system discussed by the BRICS group of countries this week and aimed at boosting non-dollar transactions, the Fund's managing director said Thursday.The meeting of the BRICS -- meaning Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- took ...
Kamala Harris said Tuesday that America is "absolutely" ready to elect its first woman president but downplayed her historic bid, saying she simply wants to turn the page for a nation "exhausted" by Donald Trump.With two weeks to Election Day, Harris and Trump are saturating swin...
Global growth is expected to ease slightly to 3.2 percent this year and remain at that level in 2025, the IMF announced Tuesday, while warning that the stable figures masked "important" regional and sectoral shifts.In its new World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, the International Monetary ...
The World Bank's climate policies are an example of "development done smart," and are unlikely to be scaled back regardless of who wins November's US presidential election, the head of the development lender told AFP.The World Bank recently committed to increasing its climate finan...
Global public debt is expected to reach a record $100 trillion this year, the IMF said Tuesday, warning that the fiscal outlook for many countries may be even "worse than expected."In its latest report on fiscal policy, the International Monetary Fund said it expects global public debt to ...
The world's 26 poorest economies are facing the most significant debt burden since 2006, the World Bank announced in a new report published Sunday.Government debt in these countries, which are home to around 40 percent of the world's population, now stands at an average of 72 percent of GDP ...
Tens of thousands of protesters marched in cities around the world over the weekend calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon as the war in the Palestinian territory neared the one-year mark.In Washington, more than a thousand protesters demonstrated outside the White House, demanding the United S...
The United States and India are set to work together on supply chains for critical minerals that are key to clean energy technologies, the US Commerce Department said Thursday in a statement.US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and India's Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal met in the...
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