Oil Slips More Than $1 Per Barrel Due to Dismal Economic News from China
Oil prices slip as investors digest the latest downbeat economic news from China, with extended slumps in retail and real estate.
Oil prices slip as investors digest the latest downbeat economic news from China, with extended slumps in retail and real estate.
Two senior U.S. officials said on Thursday that Russia has diverted “several thousand troops” from Ukraine to defend against the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk.
Nigeria accused a Chinese company of using “unorthodox means” and “subterfuge” to seize Nigerian government property abroad.
Doctors in India are considering upgrading their protests to a national strike, shutting down all but essential medical services on Saturday.
The World Health Organization on Wednesday took the long-discussed step of declaring a global health emergency over the monkeypox or “mpox” outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has begun spreading into neighboring African nations.
Chinese censors began deleting coverage of a gruesome story about corpses stolen to provide raw materials for bone grafts.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) found on Tuesday that three years after the Taliban takeover, 48 percent of Afghanistan’s population is living below the poverty line, 12.4 percent are suffering “food insecurity,” and 23.7 million rely on foreign aid.
The Taliban on Wednesday celebrated the three-year anniversary of the disastrous Biden-Harris withdrawal that gave them power in Afghanistan, more secure in power than ever despite constant complaints from the international community about their appalling human rights offenses.
Investigator Jerry Dunleavy resigned to protest the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s probe of the Biden-Harris disaster in Afghanistan.
Belgorod declared a state of emergency on Wednesday as Ukrainian forces pummeled the region with missile and drone strikes.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio announced on Wednesday he will step down in September rather than seek reelection.
Argentina’s housing supply has exploded, and rental prices have plummeted since President Javier Milei junked a socialist rent control law.
The State Department announced on Saturday that it would lift a three-year ban on selling certain weapons to Saudi Arabia.
“Moderate” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian demands British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemn Israel for “crimes” in Gaza.
Turkish police on Tuesday arrested a masked man who allegedly went on a stabbing rampage in the northwestern city of Eskisehir.
Birju Dattani resigned before officially becoming Canada’s human rights chief on Monday due to controversy over his anti-Israel statements.
A Hindu mob in Ghaziabad, India, attacked a group of Muslims on Friday night, apparently as an act of revenge for Muslim mobs targeting Hindus in Bangladesh following the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last week.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. condemned the Chinese air force for conducting “unjustified, illegal, and reckless” maneuvers.
Sheikh Hasina Wajid, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, issued a statement on Sunday accusing the U.S. government of orchestrating the events that led to her abdication last week, because she refused to give the U.S. control over a strategic island in the Bay of Bengal.
The FBI on Friday arrested Turkish American electrical contractor Gokhan Gun on charges of illegally obtaining and keeping national security documents.
Turkey has blocked access to the children’s online video game “Roblox” because it can allegedly lead to the abuse of children.
Ukraine’s state-run Ukrinform news service on Wednesday reported that Ukrainians who live in Minnesota are pleased with the “firm pro-Ukrainian stance” of Gov. Tim Walz (D), who is currently embroiled in a scandal due to exaggerating his military service for political gain after being tapped as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate.
U.N. experts warn the Islamic State and its affiliates are gaining power in West Africa and the Sahel region.
Microsoft cybersecurity researchers published a report on Friday that said hackers tied to the Iranian government are attacking U.S. officials during the American presidential campaign.
Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te on Thursday announced a proposed defense budget of $19.76 billion in U.S. dollars for the 2025 fiscal year.
A female resident of Beijing was arrested for allegedly making “defamatory claims” about a Chinese Olympic athlete and her coach.
Russians living in the border region of Kursk are criticizing the slow and confused response by civic and military officials to the Ukrainian military incursion that began on Tuesday.
Ksenia Karelina, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Russia, pleaded guitly to “treason” after being left out of a prisoner swap deal.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) director for pandemic prevention Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said on Tuesday that the Wuhan coronavirus “is still very much with us,” and warned governments around the world are unprepared for the surge of infections that is now under way.
A federal court in New York convicted naturalized U.S. citizen Wang Shujun of working as an agent for China’s Ministry of State Security.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Tuesday that about 300 Ukrainian troops penetrated the border on a sabotage mission into Russia’s Kursk region and engaged Russian forces near the border towns of Nikolaevo-Darino and Oleshnya.
The Bangladeshi Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) said on Tuesday that hundreds of Hindu homes, businesses, and temples have been vandalized since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced out of office by protesters over the weekend.
The United States on Monday formally handed its last military base in Niger over to the ruling military junta, completing a pullout ordered by Niger’s rulers in March.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus may declare an international health emergency for monkeypox.
Chinese state television broadcaster CCTV on Sunday pulled the plug on its Olympic coverage to avoid showing Taiwan’s badminton team winning the gold medal by defeating the top-rated Chinese team.
Indian intelligence officials on Tuesday accused China and Pakistan of orchestrating the protests that drove Prime Minister Sheik Hasina of Bangladesh to resign and flee the country.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz reprimanded the Turkish embassy for flying its flag at half-mast to honor Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh, resigned on Monday and fled the country after a month of huge anti-government protests.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed on Sunday to have shot down another expensive U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone.
The Japanese stock market suffered its worst single-day sell-off in history Monday, losing even more points than on “Black Monday” in 1987.