Category: Politics
Musk and Zelenskiy in Twitter showdown over billionaire’s Ukraine peace plan
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Left) and Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine (Right) UNITED NATIONS – Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday asked Twitter users to weigh in on a plan to end Russia’s war…
Kim Kardashian pays $1.26 million fine for paid crypto ad, SEC says
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Kim Kardashian has promoted everything from appetite-suppressing lollipops to melon-flavored liqueur to toilet paper, but it was her foray into the murky world of…
South Asia’s poorest city dwellers bear brunt of worsening floods
STOCK PHOTO | Image by Laurentiu from Pixabay KATHMANDU – Each summer, the thousand or so families living in a floodplain informal settlement on the edge of…
Colombia, US discuss drug trafficking, differences remain
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith via Flickr. BOGOTA, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Colombian President Gustavo Petro and US Secretary of…
Boeing doesn’t expect MAX 10 to gain FAA approval before summer 2023 -letter
REUTERS WASHINGTON – Boeing Co. does not anticipate winning approval for the 737 MAX 10 before next summer, according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) letter sent on Monday that intensifies concerns about the company’s timeline for deliveries….
Global recession can be avoided with right fiscal policies – IMF’s Georgieva
REUTERS/JOHANNES P. CHRISTO/FILE PHOTO RIYADH – Global recession can be avoided if governments’ fiscal policies were consistent with monetary policy tightening, but likely there would…
Japan PM Kishida vows to combat rising utility bills, benefit from weak yen
REUTERS TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday vowed to take steps to cushion the blow from rising electricity bills and maximize the…
UK’s Truss and Kwarteng forced into tax U-turn
REUTERS LONDON — The government of British Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced on Monday into a humiliating U-turn, reversing plans to cut the highest…
Seventeen children among the dead in Indonesian soccer stampede
A man is seen behind an Indonesia’s national flag in Jakarta, Indonesia in this file photo dated April 7, 2019. — REUTERS MALANG — Seventeen…
Thousands of mobilized Russians sent home, unfit for military duty
REUTERS KYIV — Thousands of Russians mobilized for military service in Ukraine have been sent home and the military commissar in Russia’s Khabarovsk region removed…
Brazil election enters runoff as Bolsonaro dashes Lula’s hope of quick win
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — REUTERS SAO PAULO/BRASILIA — The second round of Brazil’s presidential campaign kicked off Monday after right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro…
Pakistani hospital overwhelmed as water-borne illnesses spread
PUNJAB EMERGENCY SERVICE DEPARTMENT/FACEBOOK SEHWAN, Pakistan — The emergency ward at the main government hospital in Sehwan, a small town in southern Pakistan, is overwhelmed. …
Hurricane Ian death toll climbs to 83, officials defend response
Hurricane Ian. — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) MIAMI — The death toll from Hurricane Ian climbed past 80 on Sunday as embattled residents…
Pope begs Putin to end ‘spiral of violence and death,’ fears nuclear war
REUTERS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis for the first time directly begged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the “spiral of violence and death” in…
Stampede, riot at Indonesia soccer match kill at least 174
A man is seen behind an Indonesia’s national flag in Jakarta, Indonesia in this file photo dated April 7, 2019. — REUTERS MALANG — At…
Britain has ‘too many’ low-skilled migrants — new interior minister
REUTERS LONDON — Britain has too many low-skilled migrant workers and very high numbers of international students, who often brought dependents with them, the country’s…
Ukraine’s recapture of Lyman deals Moscow major setback
KYIV — Ukrainian troops said they had taken the key bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a close ally…
‘French Spiderman’ climbs first skyscraper with son in Barcelona
BARCELONA — Alain Robert, the free climber dubbed the “French Spiderman”, scaled one of Barcelona’s highest skyscrapers on Saturday without a harness. And for the…
Senior Indonesian officials targeted by spyware last year — sources
UNSPLASH Six of the individuals told Reuters they were targeted themselves. The targets included Chief Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto, senior military personnel, two regional diplomats,…
To tackle a kimchi crisis, South Korea banks on massive cabbage warehouses
Jeremy Keith/CC BY 2.0/Wikimedia Commons SEOUL — South Korea’s kimchi makers are in serious pain — brought low as a climate change-induced shortage of cabbages…