Americas

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, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is traveling to Brussels on Monday to participate in a two-day summit and the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). This ...

An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck the Alaska Peninsula region early on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, leading to a tsunami warning for nearby regions. USGS revised the ...

The United States and China will look to revive efforts to combat global warming this week, in bilateral meetings that observers hope will raise the bar on ambitions ahead of ...

The Senate in the coming days is expected to consider a bipartisan measure that would compel the U.S. government to publicly release records relating to possible UFO sightings after ...

US President Joe Biden’s administration will cancel $39 billion in student debt for more than 804,000 borrowers, the Education Department said, describing the relief as the result of a “fix” to ...

Microsoft MSFT.O says that hackers used a flaw in its code to steal emails from government agencies and other clients. In a blog post published on Friday, the company ...

A man has been arrested in connection with serial killings in New York more than a decade ago that targeted sex workers and others whose bodies were found strewn near ...

North Korea’s firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday violates multiple U.N. resolutions and threatens peace and stability in the region, the United States, South Korea, ...

Ukraine has received cluster bombs from the United States, munitions banned in more than 100 countries, but has pledged to only use them to dislodge concentrations of enemy soldiers. Valeryi Shershen, ...

Hollywood actors went on strike on Thursday after talks with studios broke down, joining film and television writers who have been on picket lines since May and deepening the disruption ...

Evidence is mounting about what may be a wealth of organic molecules – a potential indicator of life – on Mars, with new findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover suggesting the presence ...