The US Congress gave final approval to a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine late Tuesday, with President Joe Biden quickly vowing to sign the long-delayed bill and begin delivering fresh supplies this week to the war zone as Russia makes...
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US health authorities said Tuesday they had discovered fragments of bird flu virus in the nation’s pasteurized cow milk supply during the course of a large study, but the samples likely posed no health risk to humans. An outbreak of Highly...
The release of treated wastewater into the ocean from Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant was suspended on Wednesday as a partial power outage affected the site, operator TEPCO said. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said in a...
Student anger with university officials and law enforcement fueled worsening tensions on several US campuses Tuesday after days of pro-Palestinian protests that have triggered mass arrests and shut down classes. Some of America’s most...
As the US Senate prepares to approve a TikTok ban, the FBI chief on Tuesday underlined security concerns about the popular Chinese-owned app. FBI Director Christopher Wray said that TikTok parent company ByteDance is “beholden to the Chinese...
Lawmakers in Tennessee on Tuesday passed a bill allowing teachers, principals and other school personnel to carry concealed handguns, a year after a deadly shooting at an elementary school in the state. The measure passed the state’s House of...
Russian law enforcement officers have detained Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov on suspicion of taking bribes, Russia’s Investigative Committee said on Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin was informed of the detention of the high-ranking...
Clouds of dust blown in from the Sahara desert covered Athens and other Greek cities on Tuesday, one of the worst such episodes to hit the country since 2018, officials said. A yellow-orange haze smothered several regions after several days of...
Greece is holding a three-day disaster exercise on the tourist island of Crete with both visitors and operators stressing the need to prepare for emergencies, including quakes and fires. The civil protection ministry said the three-day exercise...
The United Nations called Tuesday for an international investigation into reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals destroyed in Israeli sieges, saying war crimes might have been committed. The UN rights office said it was “horrified”...
The US ramped up its sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, designating four people and two companies it says were “involved in malicious cyber activity” on behalf of the country’s military. “These actors targeted more than a...
Ukraine authorities on Tuesday suspended consular services for men of fighting age living abroad, after announcing measures to bring them home amid manpower shortages in the army fighting Russia. Ukraine’s army has been struggling to hold...
Donald Trump will meet with former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso in New York City on Tuesday, the White House candidate’s aides told AFP. The two men will meet at Trump Tower, one of the real estate magnate’s properties in New York...
The US Senate could vote Tuesday on a major aid package for Ukraine, in legislation that also includes assistance for Israel and Taiwan and sets the stage to ban social media app TikTok. Its passage is all but certain after the House of...
American forces were targeted at a base in western Iraq, a US defense official said Tuesday, the second such attack on the country’s troops after a more than two month pause. It followed another attack over the weekend in which rockets were...