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It was well before dawn on Monday when federal regulators notified JPMorgan Chase executives that they had beaten out three smaller rivals in their bid to buy the doomed First Republic Bank.By the time the sun rose, JPMorgan’s longtime chief executive, Jamie Dimon, was once again illuminated a...
World
Nothing has been rebuilt since flames devoured the tiny village of Lytton last year, turning it into a national symbol of climate change. It was in Lytton, about 145km northeast of Vancouver, that temperatures set a national record of 49.6 degrees Celsius in Canada - before the deadly fire erupted.B...
Fast-moving wildfires that tore through the northeast mountains of Algeria have killed at least 37 people and injured dozens, government officials reported on Thursday (Aug 18).The blazes erupted in the early hours of Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said, adding that at least 118 fires across 21 pr...
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Three ships loaded with grain left Ukrainian ports on Friday, days after the first grain-laden vessel left the country since Russia’s invasion. They are making the journey as part of a hard-won deal to free more than 20 million tons of Ukraine’s desperately needed stores.The ships were g...
After getting pummelled by multiple consecutive days of 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) or higher that had climbed into the triple digits in some cities, the Pacific North-west is expected to gain some relief this week before temperatures rise again this weekend, forecasters said.In Portl...
With monkeypox cases on the rise and vaccine doses in scarce supply, US President Joe Biden's health secretary suggested Thursday (July 28) that states and localities bear some of the responsibility for what critics have called a flawed response."We don't control public health in the 50...
The husband of a Colorado woman who has been missing for more than two years has pleaded guilty to casting her mail-in ballot for Mr Donald Trump during the 2020 election, telling FBI agents, "I figured all these other guys are cheating."The man, Barry Morphew, 54, was given a sentence of ...
Deadly heat and Russia's war in Ukraine are packing a brutal double punch, upending the global energy market and forcing some of the world's largest economies into a desperate scramble to secure electricity for their citizens.This week, Europe found itself in a nasty feedback loop as record ...
Even before the start of the war in Ukraine, an international alliance to rally the world against a Russian invasion came together so quickly that United States President Joe Biden later marvelled at the "purpose and unity found in months that we'd once taken years to accomplish".Now, ...
The father of six knew that where he was digging could kill him. But winter was approaching, and selling a few pounds of scrap metal peeled from a nearby abandoned military outpost could offset the rising prices of food and fuel as Afghanistan's economy collapsed around him.So Sayed Rahman and h...
The use of at-home coronavirus tests surged during the winter Omicron wave in the United States, with white, high-income and highly educated people most likely to report using the tests, an online survey of US adults suggests.Between Dec 19 and March 12, 20.1 per cent of survey respondents who said ...
At least one person was killed, 50 homes were destroyed and nearly 500 others evacuated in central Texas after a wildfire burned more than 45,000 acres (17,700 hectares), officials said on Friday (March 18).The wildfire, a set of blazes west of the Dallas-Fort Worth area called the Eastland Complex ...
At least seven people were killed; including two children, in Iowa on Saturday (March 5) as communities across the state were battered by what the authorities said appeared to be tornadoes.Six of the deaths occurred in Madison County, and a seventh was reported in Chariton, a city in Lucas County, o...
One group of truckers called the People's Convoy that left California more than a week ago made it to the east coast of the US and was stationed Saturday (March 5) in Hagerstown, Maryland, about 110km north-west of the capital Washington.The group is converging with other drivers and their suppo...
As Russia prepared to strike Ukraine and the United States rushed to defend neighbouring allies in Europe, former US President Donald Trump had nothing but admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia.He is "pretty smart," Mr Trump said Wednesday (Feb 23) at a Florida fundraiser, asse...
As Russia commands the world's attention with a military buildup around Ukraine, it faces a stubborn domestic challenge: the coronavirus.On Friday Feb 11, the country reported a daily record of 200,000 new coronavirus cases, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant sweeps across the remote pa...
The most punishing sanctions that United States officials have threatened to impose on Russia could cause severe inflation, a stock market crash and other forms of financial panic that would inflict pain on its people - from billionaires to government officials to middle-class families.US officials ...
As the US issued warnings last month about the Russian troops on Ukraine's borders and President Joe Biden threatened President Vladimir Putin with sanctions if he launched an invasion, researchers noticed an uptick in social media posts accusing Ukraine of plotting genocide against ethnic Russi...
New coronavirus cases have started to fall nationally, signalling that the Omicron-fuelled spike that has infected tens of millions of Americans, packed hospitals and shattered records has finally begun to relent.More and more states have passed a peak in new cases in recent days, as glimmers of pro...
The Peruvian government has asked for international support in responding to an oil spill off the coast of Lima that it called the city's "worst ecological disaster" in recent history, as crude continued to wash onto beaches nearly a week after waves triggered by Tonga's volcanic e...
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