LONDON/DUBAI, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have tightened their grip on the country’s oil industry and control up to half the exports that generate most of Tehran’s revenue and fund its proxies across the Middle East, according to Western officials, security sources and Iranian insiders. All aspects of the oil business have come…
The stock market swooned Wednesday in response to a piece of news that might not seem all that dire on first read: The Federal Reserve could cut interest rates fewer times than experts had predicted, in 2025. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 2.6%, or 1,123 points, closing at 42,327. The S&P 500 lost nearly…
NAJHA, Syria (AP) — Bones are visible here and there among the mounds of earth in a field south of Damascus, one of the mass graves around Syria believed to hold the bodies of tens of thousands of people killed under Bashar Assad’s rule. With his ouster, residents, forensic teams and international groups face what…
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared on stage Saturday in her one-time-only debut in Broadway’s & Juliet, a reimagined queer musical production of Romeo and Juliet. Jackson strutted her stuff, dancing, singing, and acting in the production on December 14 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, becoming the first sitting Supreme Court Justice to appear in a Broadway play….
A gun-toting teenage student at a Christian school in Madison Wis., shot dead another teen student and a teacher Monday morning, police said. Six more people were injured — including two students who were critically hurt with “life-threatening” wounds, authorities said. The shooter was found dead at the scene, authorities said. The gunfire broke out just…
LA PAZ, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Housewife Yola Chura worried about high food prices while shopping at a market in Bolivia’s highland city of El Alto, where she and many others are struggling with rising prices, stagnant wages and a scarcity of dollars that has put the long-stable Andean economy on edge. “We are in…
Putin warned that Western help for Ukraine is reaching a “red line” for Russia. Russia has to prepare for war with NATO as well as complete its war against Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov told the Defense Ministry on Monday in a joint meeting with President Vladimir Putin. “The Ministry of Defense of Russia…
The Syrian Islamist leader whose group led the offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad met Sunday with UN envoy Geir Pedersen, who was visiting Damascus, said a statement on the rebels’ Telegram channel. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, now using his real name Ahmed al-Sharaa, discussed with Pedersen “the changes that have occurred…
French political veteran François Bayrou, a long time ally of President Macron has been named as the head of the new French government after the last collapsed in record time. French President Emmanuel Macron is unable to dispose of his three-way-split parliament, so instead he has attempted to put together a new government after the last…
A drone fell out of the sky and crashed into a New Jersey homeowner’s backyard Thursday night — prompting the town’s mayor to even drive to the scene to survey the site himself. The aircraft smashed down in a residential area of Pequannock Township in Morris County around 8:45 p.m. Thursday, according to police and…