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China's shock success at bringing Saudi Arabia and Iran together has challenged the United States' longstanding role as the key outside power broker in the Middle East.Beijing's persuading archrivals Riyadh and Tehran to reestablish diplomatic relations upstaged the United States just as...
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The operator of a nuclear facility in Minnesota said on Thursday the plant suffered a leak last November of water containing radioactive tritium, but that contamination was largely limited to the plant itself.Xcel Energy, operator of the nuclear plant northwest of Minneapolis in the Midwest state of...
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The White House has said that talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Chinese leader Xi Jinping would be a "good thing," but warned Beijing against taking a "one-sided" view of the conflict."We think it would be a very good thing if the two of them talk,&quo...
Business & Commerce
The International Monetary Fund said Monday it has reached an agreement with the government of Argentina on the fourth review of the aid package for the South American country, paving the way for the disbursement of some $5.3 billion. The new tranche of funding, which should be approved "in the...
The dramatic implosion of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week could bring the Federal Reserve's current cycle of interest rate hikes to an end far sooner than many analysts expected.Traders and analysts who had previously predicted that the Fed would increase the pace of hikes to tackle inflatio...
The world's first 3D printed rocket is scheduled to blast off from Florida on Saturday (US) on the maiden flight of an innovative spacecraft billed as being less costly to produce and fly.Liftoff of the rocket, Terran 1, had been scheduled for Wednesday at Cape Canaveral but was postponed at the...
The US Air Force on Friday unveiled a new color scheme for Air Force One, discarding the palette chosen by Donald Trump for the presidential aircraft.President Joe Biden is sticking with a classic blue-and-white color scheme for the jets, which are under construction, retaining a design that dates t...
The United States (US) on Friday said it welcomes a Chinese-brokered thaw in relations between rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia but expressed doubts that Tehran will follow through on its commitments.White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said "we welcome" the diplomatic de...
NASA is on track to launch a crewed mission around the Moon in November of next year after a successful unmanned test flight, the US space agency said Tuesday.NASA officials provided an update on the Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the historic ...
The White House on Tuesday welcomed a bill that would allow the United States to ban Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement.The bill was backed by Mark Warner, a senior US senator from the Democratic party, and John Thune, a South Dakot...
The European Union is seeking a trade agreement with the United States that will allow the EU to access some benefits under President Joe Biden's ambitious climate plan, an EU official said Friday.Officials are hoping to make progress on this as early as next week, when Biden hosts European Comm...
The United States' candidate to head the World Bank, Ajay Banga, told reporters Thursday he is looking towards more private sector funding to tackle financing for global problems.Banga's comments came a week after President Joe Biden announced his nomination, and as the development lender ca...
The United States (US) announced a new $400 million security aid package for Ukraine on Friday that features various types of ammunition for Kyiv's forces."This military assistance package includes more ammunition for US-provided HIMARS and howitzers, which Ukraine is using so effectively t...
Former US president Donald Trump can be sued by police and others injured in the January 6, 2021 attack by his supporters on the US Capitol, the Justice Department said in a court filing Thursday.In an official legal opinion submitted to federal court in Washington, the department said although...
Legal reforms toward equal rights for women around the globe fell to the slowest pace in more than two decades last year, despite positive developments in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank said Thursday.Just 34 reforms to improve women's economic participation were made in the year to October 2...
The United States (US) is "confident" that China is considering providing lethal materiel to support the Russian forces invading Ukraine, senior officials said Sunday.And while they have seen no sign Beijing has done so yet, they underscored the US message this weekend that China should no...
US President Joe Biden said Thursday that Washington is nominating former Mastercard chief executive Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank, after its current chief David Malpass announced plans to step down early.The development lender has just started accepting candidate nominations in a process set to...
The World Bank (WB) said Wednesday it hopes to find a successor by early May to chief David Malpass, who has announced he will step down nearly a year early.The Washington-based development lender will begin accepting candidate nominations on Thursday, a process that will run until March 29. The ban...
President Joe Biden's administration proposed tough new restrictions on asylum seekers Tuesday, saying it wanted to head off a rush of migrants to the southern border when Covid-related controls are lifted.The new rules say migrants who arrive at the border and simply cross into the United State...
US space agency NASA and SpaceX on Tuesday pushed back by 24 hours the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket that is to carry four astronauts to the International Space Station.NASA's Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russia's Andrey Fedyaev and Sultan al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates had been sch...
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