Americas

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s unexplained freezeup while speaking in Congress this week is the latest reminder that America’s most powerful political leaders are much older than many ...

Donald Trump ordered employees at his Florida resort to delete security videos as he was under investigation for retaining classified documents, U.S. prosecutors said as they broadened the case ...

Donald Trump’s attorneys met on Thursday with Justice Department officials investigating the Republican former president’s attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, said Trump, the target of a Special ...

The Biden administration is poised to increase outreach to western trading houses, insurers and tanker owners to remind them to abide by the Group of Seven’s price cap on ...

U.S. President Joe Biden‘s son Hunter Biden‘s proposed deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to tax charges and avoid a gun charge hit a snag on Wednesday ...

U.S. officials will meet Taliban representatives and “technocratic professionals” from key Afghan ministries during a visit to Doha this week, the State Department said on Wednesday, adding they will ...

Six people were injured in New York on Wednesday when the top portion of a construction crane caught fire and crashed into a Manhattan street during the morning rush hour, ...

British billionaire Joe Lewis has surrendered to U.S. authorities in Manhattan and is expected to appear in court later on Wednesday to face insider trading charges, a spokesperson for ...

US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden arrived at a Delaware courthouse on Wednesday where he is expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to ...

The 18-year-old son of NBA legend LeBron James suffered a cardiac arrest while practicing with the University of Southern California (USC) basketball team and was in stable condition, ESPN reported ...

A missing paddle boarder whose body was recovered from a lake in the Massachusetts resort community of Martha’s Vineyard was the personal chef to former President Barack Obama, authorities ...

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, pointing to persistent strength in the labour market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 9,000 to ...

It is Barbie’s world, and U.S. small businesses hope their social-media marketing can help them cash in on it. From Malibu makeovers to striped dog bandanas to hot ...

Defence Minister Michalis Georgallas on Sunday welcomed the US Senator Robert Menendez’s proposed amendment to the National Defence Appropriations Act (NDAA) extending to three years from one the renewal ...

A Peruvian high court has ordered same-sex unions to be legally registered in public records, marking a victory for the LGBTQ community in a country that has been reluctant to ...

The US State Department on Friday expressed opposition to the partition solution promoted by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for Cyprus. According to Cybc, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, responding ...

The White House on Friday launched an office to prepare for and respond to potential pandemics, to be led by Paul Friedrichs, a military combat surgeon and retired Air Force ...

The city of New York has agreed to pay $13 million to hundreds of people arrested during the 2020 George Floyd demonstrations, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs, who said it was ...

A tanker containing liquefied natural gas (LNG) that originated from a Russia supplier and was loaded onto a Gunvor Group-chartered <GGL.UL> vessel off the coast of France ...

The United States on Thursday imposed Russia-related sanctions against nearly 120 individuals and entities aimed at blocking Moscow’s access to electronics and other goods that aid its war against Ukraine, ...

Investors in El Salvador international bonds are relishing 60 per cent returns this year alone as debt issued by the Central American country recovers from calls of doom and default, with ...

The U.S. military was scrambling to establish the fate of an American soldier who made an unauthorised crossing of the inter-Korean border into North Korea, throwing Washington into a ...

An experimental drug from Eli Lilly LLY.N works best if Alzheimer’s patients are treated as early as possible, ideally before they develop symptoms of the brain-wasting disease, researchers ...

US President Joe Biden, after a lengthy delay, on Monday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States for an official visit at a date to be determined, ...