The United States on Monday suspended cooperation with Canada in a 86-year-old joint defense advisory body, in the latest disruption of ties between the two neighbors. US Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby said in a post on X that the Pentagon...
The US judge overseeing Luigi Mangione’s New York state trial for the murder of a healthcare executive decided Monday to admit crucial items of evidence including a gun and a notebook. The defense had sought to get Mangione’s initial...
Croatia will not sign off on the appointment of a new Israeli ambassador because of the policies of Israel’s current government, President Zoran Milanovic said Monday. Milanovic, a vocal critic of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, said...
Germany will deploy a Patriot missile air defence battery to Turkey as part of a NATO rotation, Berlin’s defence ministry said Monday. About 150 soldiers currently based in the northern city of Husum would move with a Patriot anti-missile...
The United States announced Monday it is bolstering precautions to prevent the spread of Ebola, including screening air travelers from outbreak-hit areas and temporarily suspending visa services from the region. The public health measures announced...
US President Donald Trump’s Justice Department announced on Monday the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate political allies prosecuted under the Biden administration. In exchange for the setting up of the “Anti-Weaponization...
Mexican authorities have frozen the accounts of a governor wanted on drug trafficking charges in the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday. The US Justice Department last month charged the governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa...
New US Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh will be sworn in on Friday at the White House in a ceremony hosted by President Donald Trump, a White House official said. “The President will host a swearing-in ceremony for Kevin Warsh at the White...
The US Treasury secretary on Monday said Washington was extending by 30 days its sanctions waiver for Russian oil cargoes already at sea, as global energy prices continue to surge due to the Iran war. The latest “temporary 30-day general...
Germany’s government said Monday it plans to invest 10 billion euros ($12 billion) to overhaul the country’s civil defence system by 2029. Much of the money would go to Germany’s Agency for Technical Relief (THW), which responds to...
Cuba’s president said Monday his country had a legitimate right to respond to a potential US attack following US claims that the island is considering staging drone attacks on US targets. US news site Axios on Sunday quoted US intelligence...
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was slightly higher last week, returning to levels in line with the average recorded since the start of the Middle East conflict after hitting a wartime low. A total of 55 commodities vessels crossed the...
Iranian authorities have made more than 4,000 arrests on charges related to the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic in a mass crackdown, a US-based rights group said on Monday. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said it had...
Apartment rentals in New York’s Manhattan borough topped $5,000 a month for the first time in April as vacancy rates tumbled to six-year lows, according to US real estate firm Corcoran. “Manhattan’s rental market surged in April...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Monday that internet fibre optic cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz could be brought under a system of permits as Tehran tightens control over the waterway. “Following the imposition...
