Tag: World

Most of Silicon Valley Bank bought by First Citizens, in latest bid to contain banking crisis, FDIC says

First Citizens Bank has agreed to purchase all of failed California lender Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits and loans plus a big share of its assets, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said late Sunday. All 17 Silicon Valley Bank branches will open Monday as First Citizens banks, operating as “Silicon Valley Bank, a division of […]

Read More

Putin’s decision to move nukes to Belarus irritated the West. Did it also ‘humiliate’ China?

The U.S. and NATO on Sunday criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “dangerous and irresponsible” announcement Saturday that he will transfer tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring ally Belarus, even as they downplayed its risk to the security of Europe.  White House national security spokesman John Kirby told CBS’s Face the Nation that there’s no indication Putin […]

Read More

Ghana Gives Kamala Harris The Red Carpet Treatment As VP Kicks Off African Tour

NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Vice President Kamala Harris made her triumphant arrival in Ghana on Sunday as she begins a weeklong stay in Africa in an effort to help deepen the “enduring” ties to the United States. She and the second gentleman Dough Emhoff emerged from Air Force Two to the warmest of welcomes in […]

Read More

Mass protests in Israel after Netanyahu ousts defense minister opposed to judicial overhaul

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, on Sunday, after Gallant called on him to drop a proposed overhaul of the country’s judicial system. Israel’s right-wing government is proposing changing the way the country’s Supreme Court judges are picked, giving appointees and representatives of the government an automatic majority on the […]

Read More

Hong Kong sees 1st protest in years under strict guidelines

Hong Kong saw its first protest in three years on Sunday, as people were allowed to take to the streets for the first time since the lifting of major COVID-19 restrictions and the implementation of anti-protest laws.  However, the protest was strictly watched by law enforcement, and heavily regulated with a number of guidelines. Only […]

Read More

Pope Francis updates sex abuse laws for Catholic Church

The Vatican and Pope Francis unveiled a new slate of legislation on Saturday that updates existing rules within the Catholic Church to penalize coverups of sexual abuse and hold perpetrators responsible.  The new legislation, laid out in a letter by Francis, allows senior clergymen to be held accountable for dismissing any sexual abuse within their […]

Read More

Forense: Tornado por Mississippi y Alabama deja 7 muertos

EEUU-TORNADOS (AP) Un poderoso tornado arrasó la noche del viernes por una zona rural de Mississippi y Alabama, dejando al menos siete muertes, destruyendo edificios e interrumpiendo el servicio eléctrico luego que un evento de clima extremo que produjo granizo del tamaño de pelotas de golf pasó por varios estados del sur de Estados Unidos […]

Read More

The end of the line for Boris Johnson?

Months of recriminations over Britain’s “partygate” controversy crescendoed this week with a hearing before the House of Commons’ powerful privileges committee in which former Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his actions during the scandal, one of several that contributed to his exit from the job under pressure last year. Johnson, his political future on the […]

Read More

U.S. strikes Iranian-linked targets in Syria after drone attack kills 1 U.S. contractor, wounds 6 others

A self-exploding drone of “Iranian origin” struck a U.S. coalition military base in northeast Syria on Thursday, killing a U.S. contractor and wounding another contractor and five U.S. service members, the Pentagon announced late Thursday. President Biden ordered retaliatory airstrikes on facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps […]

Read More

Scientists sequence Beethoven’s DNA, 200 years after his death

Scientists announced Wednesday that they had sequenced the genome of legendary composer Ludwig van Beethoven, nearly two centuries after his death. His DNA was able to provide valuable insights into the composer’s lifelong health problems and ultimate demise.   The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, were made possible after a team of international researchers pulled DNA […]

Read More

Is Russia a Chinese ‘client state’?

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin used Xi’s three-day state visit to Moscow to reaffirm their growing economic and political ties. They also underscored their shared interest in countering the U.S.-led push for a world governed by democratic norms, universal rights and freedoms, and containment of China and Russia.  Xi and Putin […]

Read More

3 key graphics from the U.N. climate report

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its 2023 climate report detailing what the panel’s chair, Hoesung Lee, called “the urgency of taking more ambitious [climate] action.”  The report found that the world is pushing towards 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming over pre-industrial levels and will likely surpass that temperature in “the first half […]

Read More

Ukraine hints it destroyed Russian missile shipment in Crimea as China’s Xi visits Moscow

Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency said late Monday that a rail shipment of several Russian Kalibr cruise missiles had been destroyed in Dzhankoi, a town in Russian-occupied Crimea. Ukraine did not claim responsibility for the explosion in Dzhankoi — it rarely does for attacks inside Russian zones — but it implied Ukrainian forces were involved, lauding the ongoing […]

Read More

Global happiness has been ‘remarkably resilient’ over the past three years

The World Happiness Report was released on Monday, ranking the happiest countries in the world based on average life evaluations from 150 nations. The good news is happiness remained “remarkably resilient” over the past three years, with global averages aligning with the three years before the pandemic, CNN reports.  “Even during these difficult years, positive emotions […]

Read More

Is France ‘on the edge of civil unrest’?

French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced last week that President Emmanuel Macron’s government would use a constitutional maneuver, Article 49.3, to push through controversial and deeply unpopular changes to France’s retirement system without a full vote in Parliament. Macron’s decision to unilaterally raise the retirement age to 64, from 62, among other changes, has sparked large, sometimes violent protests and […]

Read More

The extreme weather events of 2023

The number of extreme weather events has seen a “staggering rise” in the past 30 years, says the United Nations, and experts warn climate change is “supercharging these extreme events,” The Associated Press writes. Intense heat as well as extreme rainfall events “are getting more frequent, more severe,” explains Kai Kornhuber, a research scientist at Columbia University. Climate […]

Read More

Russia’s spring Ukraine offensive may be winding down amid heavy troop losses, munitions shortages

U.S. officials are quietly warning Ukraine to conserve its dwindling supplies of artillery shells and other ammunition, air defenses, and experienced soldiers for a major spring counteroffensive to regain territory from Russian invaders, expected to start in May, once Western armor and weapons are in place. Ukraine is especially running through artillery shells and suffering […]

Read More

UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse in $3.2 billion deal

The Swiss government brokered a deal on Sunday for UBS to purchase its longtime rival Credit Suisse for roughly $3.2 billion. The deal aims to stop a banking crisis spurred by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank earlier this month. It took a few days to reach an agreement, which Swiss government leaders and regulators […]

Read More

Crucial Ukrainian grain export deal extended despite disagreement

Ukraine and Russia agreed on Saturday to extend a crucial deal allowing Ukrainian grain exports safe passage through the Black Sea, though the terms of the extension were disputed by the two countries.  Known as the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the extension was announced by the United Nations in collaboration with Turkish President Recep Tayyip […]

Read More

North Korea claims 800,000 people volunteered to fight against the U.S.

North Korean state media claimed Saturday that at least 800,000 people had volunteered to fight in a hypothetical war against the United States.  The country’s official state-run newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said that the large turnout was “a demonstration of the unshakeable will of the younger generation to mercilessly wipe out the war maniacs making last-ditch efforts to […]

Read More

U.N. Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Putin Over War Crimes in Ukraine

And money talks. Hoeven has seemingly expressed little public concern about the rail industry since the East Palestine derailment. In 2021, however, he, Cramer, and Armstrong did send a letter to the Surface Transportation Board advocating for the Canadian Pacific, or CP, and Kansas City Southern, or KCS, merger. As The American Prospect reports, Hoeven […]

Read More

ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Putin Over War Crimes in Ukraine

And money talks. Hoeven has seemingly expressed little public concern about the rail industry since the East Palestine derailment. In 2021, however, he, Cramer, and Armstrong did send a letter to the Surface Transportation Board advocating for the Canadian Pacific, or CP, and Kansas City Southern, or KCS, merger. As The American Prospect reports, Hoeven […]

Read More