Americas

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok on Friday from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or ...

Global diesel prices and refining margins spiked following the latest round of US sanctions on Russia’s oil trade on expectations the measures would tighten supplies, according to analysts and ...

Los Angeles officials told most evacuees from the wildfires o stay away from their homes at least another week as emergency responders remove toxic waste from incinerated neighborhoods and cut ...

Blue Origin’s giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida early Thursday morning on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth’s orbit for Jeff Bezos’ ...

Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday could herald a more volatile period for markets, with the Republican seen moving quickly on a wide swath of issues including trade and immigration ...

President Joe Biden capped a half-century political career on Wednesday with a final Oval Office speech as he hopes to seal a legacy overshadowed by Democrats’ failure to stop Donald ...

Cyprus has been authorised to buy military hardware directly from the United States government after joining three programmes run by the country’s department of defence on Wednesday night. As ...

Firefighters held the line against two massive wildfires that have ravaged parts of Los Angeles for the past week, even as desert winds and a parched landscape presented extremely hazardous ...

Los Angeles firefighters on Tuesday braced for the return of dry, intense winds that could recharge two monstrous wildfires that have already killed at least 24 people, leveled entire neighborhoods and ...

US banks will probably report stronger earnings this week, fueled by robust dealmaking and trading in the fourth quarter. The six biggest US lenders have benefited from a resurgence in ...

Dangerously high winds were expected to resume on Monday in Los Angeles, potentially hampering efforts to extinguish two stubborn wildfires that have leveled whole neighborhoods and claimed the lives of ...

Firefighters raced to contain the frontiers of two Los Angeles wildfires that burned for the sixth straight day on Sunday, taking advantage of a brief respite in hazardous conditions before ...

As Los Angeles construction worker Ivan De La Torre surveyed a landscape of smoking wreckage in fire-ravaged Altadena, a question nagged at him: how would insurance companies cover the cost ...

Fierce winds that have supercharged wildfires sweeping parts of Los Angeles finally eased on Friday night, bringing some relief to weary firefighters, but the largest blaze was reported to have ...

By Lisa Richwine and Rollo RossWhen wildfires destroyed parts of Los Angeles this week, real estate agent Jenna Cooper started asking friends for clothing and other items to help people ...

Two companies based in Cyprus were included on the latest list of entities sanctioned by the United States for aiding Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The list was published ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail, pay a fine or be put on probation for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn ...

Russia welcomes the stated willingness of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to resolve problems through dialogue, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, reaffirming Russian President Vladimir Putin’s readiness ...

Wildfires menacing Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people and devoured nearly 10,000 structures, with five fires burning into a third night on Thursday, as dry desert winds fanning the flames ...

Hundreds of mourners including all five living current and former U.S. presidents packed into Washington’s National Cathedral on Thursday to mourn, Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president ...

A home reportedly belonging to Hollywood actors Leighton Meester and Adam Brody and another owned by actor Billy Crystal were among more than 1,000 buildings destroyed by wildfires raging across Los ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is serious about trying to acquire Greenland, both to expand America’s sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere and as a way to cement ...

A pair of massive wildfires menacing Los Angeles from the east and west were still burning uncontained on Thursday, two days after they ignited, but firefighters managed to beat back ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has dismissed a suggestion by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that he might use “economic force” to make Canada the 51st U.S. state. “There ...