Millions of Americans braced Monday for pay and welfare checks to stop within days as Congress careened toward a damaging government shutdown, with Republican right wingers blocking attempts to pass a budget. Four months after barely avoiding the...
Ford is halting work on a major battery plant in the northern US state of Michigan, the automaker said Monday, just seven months after launching the project with a Chinese partner. The stoppage, which a Ford a representative confirmed to AFP, comes...
The Moody’s ratings agency has warned that a US government shutdown this weekend, amid political deadlock in Congress, would have negative implications for the country’s top tier credit rating. Just four months after barely avoiding a...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told parliament on Monday that ratifying Sweden’s NATO bid was not “urgent”, accusing the Nordic country of having challenged the country’s “democratic nature”. Hungary has...
Two soldiers from Bahrain were killed along the border between war-torn Yemen and Saudi Arabia, the Bahraini military said on Monday, in an attack highlighting persistent insecurity in the area. The victims “were martyred while performing...
A powerful US senator charged with bribery and extortion after gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were found at his home rejected calls on Monday for him to resign. “I recognize that this will be the biggest fight...
The United States said Monday that Russia had shown it is not a reliable partner after Armenia blamed Moscow for failing to prevent Azerbaijani forces’ capture of Nagorno-Karabakh. “I do think that Russia has shown that it is not a...
Thousands of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh streamed into Armenia on Monday, as the leaders of Azerbaijan and ally Turkey hailed Baku’s victory over the rebel enclave at a summit. While Azerbaijan showcased its regional alliances, Russia hit...
London’s Metropolitan Police said on Monday it had received multiple sex offence allegations following a week of news reports about British actor and comedian Russell Brand. The 48-year-old has been the subject of rape and assault accusations...
Ten children are among at least 18 people reported missing after a sewage-polluted river swollen by heavy rains swept away precarious homes in the Guatemalan capital, authorities said Monday. A tributary of the Las Vacas river washed away six homes...
Twenty years after invading Iraq, the United States is failing the survivors of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison by not offering any path to compensation, Human Rights Watch said Monday. “Twenty years on, Iraqis who were tortured by US personnel...
Outbreaks of dengue fever and acute watery diarrhoea have “killed hundreds” in war-torn Sudan, medics reported Monday, warning of “catastrophic spreads” that could overwhelm the country’s decimated health system. In a...
According to sources at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), there have been around 11,000 migrant encounters at the southwestern border in the past 24 hours. This is the “single highest day in recent memory,” Fox News reported Monday...
Fragments of a missile were found in a village in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region on Monday after a major Russian aerial attack on neighbouring Ukraine overnight, regional authorities said. The pro-Moscow separatist region broke away...
Russia on Monday blamed the government of Kosovo for a deadly clash between authorities and gunmen near the Serbian border, warning that the “bloodshed” could spiral out of control. “There is no doubt that yesterday’s...
