Dutch election goes to the wire as progressive forces led by newcomer Rob Jetten make gains in blow to rightwing firebrand Geert Wilders. The Netherlands voted on Wednesday in a parliamentary resulting in a too close to call result with rightwing frontman Geert Wilders of the Party for Freedom (PPV) and rising progressive leader Rob…
The Federal Reserve has announced its second interest rate cut in a row, easing monetary policy as concerns grow about rising layoffs and economic fallout from the government shutdown. Fed Chair Jerome Powell joined the 10-2 majority on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to vote for the quarter-point rate cut at Wednesday’s meeting in…
GYEONGJU, South Korea– President Trump said he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping “agreed to almost everything” in their nearly two-hour meeting in South Korea, which Trump said was “friendly.” It was Trump’s last event after a week of summits, trade talks and other diplomatic events in the Indo-Pacific. On the flight back to Washington, Trump…
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba early Wednesday, leveling homes with 120 mph sustained winds and a speed of 10 mph. Forecasters are describing it as an “extremely dangerous” Category 3 hurricane. Twenty-five people were killed in Haiti when a nearby river flooded their homes, officials said. The storm is projected to strike the Bahamas,…
Oct. 28 (UPI) — NVIDIA is investing $1 billion to enable Nokia to accelerate its development of a world-leading 6G platform to support artificial intelligence mobile networks and networking infrastructure. Nokia announced the $1 billion investment by NVIDIA on Tuesday, which gives NVIDIA shares in Nokia while providing the capital needed to speed up the…
Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung finalized details of their fraught trade deal at a summit in South Korea on Wednesday, and the U.S. president also sounded an optimistic note about a looming summit with China’s Xi Jinping. “We made our deal, pretty much finalized it,” Trump said at a dinner with…
Master Sgt. (res.) Yona Efraim Feldbaum hit by sniper fire targeting excavator; retaliatory strikes said to kill over 100; military says 30 terror commanders targeted An Israeli reservist soldier was killed in an attack carried out by Palestinian terror operatives against troops stationed in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the…
BEIRUT, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s army has blown up so many Hezbollah arms caches that it has run out of explosives, as it races to meet a year-end deadline to disarm the Shi’ite militia in the south of the country under a ceasefire agreed with Israel, two sources told Reuters. The explosives shortage, which…
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wrapped up her first summit talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Tokyo on Tuesday, with the new Japanese leader pledging to realize “a new golden age” for their countries’ alliance. Security was tight in the capital, with some 18,000 police officers mobilized for the meeting, a crucial test of Takaichi’s…
Melissa has made an historic landfall in Jamaica, and continues to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and destructive winds. It will then target eastern Cuba and the southeast Bahamas. Here’s the very latest. Hurricane Melissa is now moving across Jamaica and Cuba with catastrophic amounts of wind and rainfall. The devastating hurricane made landfall earlier this…