Chrysler parent Stellantis announced this week its recalling tens of thousands of hybrid vehicles due to the possibility of battery fires. More than 24,000 vehicles across the globe are subject to the recall announced Thursday by the company based in Amsterdam, Reuters is reporting. “The events are linked to a rare abnormality in individual cells…
Taiwan’s military on Monday launched the 2024 edition of its annual Han Kuang series of war games aimed at resisting an invasion from an increasingly aggressive China. This year’s exercises have been updated to include what Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has called “unscripted” scenarios to better simulate wartime conditions, a change one defense analyst told Newsweek…
BRASILIA, July 22 (Reuters) – Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 meet this week to seek consensus on economic policy ahead of the U.S. election, with plans to avoid discussion of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to prevent them from dominating the talks. Negotiators from the G20 major economies have…
July 22 (UPI) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will arrive in Washington on Monday for talks with the Biden administration and address a joint session of the House and Senate on Wednesday. The visit comes at a tenuous time in Israel, which is at war with Hamas in Gaza and taking fire from other…
Greens emerge as kingmakers as von der Leyen vows to keep the centrist coalition strong. Pro-European forces celebrated the comfortable re-election of Ursula von der Leyen in Strasbourg’s European Parliament on Thursday. Von der Leyen relied mainly on allies to her left to secure a second term as European Commission chief – and not, as…
A faulty cybersecurity update from CrowdStrike wreaked havoc across the medical and travel industries, with flights and medical procedures canceled and delayed. Hospitals, banks, airports, airlines and broadcasters worldwide were impacted by a massive, ongoing IT outage Friday. Thousands of Windows PCs, which many companies and organizations rely on as part of their critical internet infrastructure, were…
US journalist Evan Gershkovich has been found guilty of espionage by a Russian court and sentenced to 16 years in a high-security penal colony, after a secretive trial decried as a “sham” by his employer, his family and the White House. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter was first arrested last March while on a…
Greetings from Tyler, The week we’ve just lived through will take its place in history. It is, as somebody said, beyond explanation. We came within an inch of losing President Trump. What would we be facing if they’d have killed him? They’ve tried EVERYTHING to get rid of this guy. They’ve run out of…
We believe that there is credible evidence that PTI should be banned: Minister ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government will seek to ban the political party of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, the information minister said Monday, days after a series of court decisions that favoured the former leader. Khan was jailed in the run-up to a February…
The second quarter’s 4.7 percent growth was far below the 5.3 percent pace seen in the first quarter of 2024. China’s economy expanded at a slower-than-forecast 4.7 percent annual rate in the last quarter, the government reported Monday, while emphasizing signs of improvement in factory output, income, and investment. The expansion was sharply below the…