Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called an emergency meeting after 10,000 households lost electricity and 1,000 vehicles got stuck on roads The heavy snowfall was centred on Niigata and Gunma prefectures, which have had about 2 metres of snow over three … Read More
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Treasury building is seen in Washington WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury labeled Switzerland and Vietnam as currency manipulators on Wednesday and added three new names to a watch list of countries it suspects of taking … Read More
LOS ANGELES/MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – After spending eight months of 2019 in a makeshift tent camp in the dangerous Mexican border city of Matamoros, Israel Martinez abandoned his hopes of seeking asylum in the United States. Beaten down by the … Read More
Announcements circulating on social media claim that a migrant caravan is heading for the US southern border. Following two massive hurricanes causing devastation across Central America, it’s understood that thousands of migrants from Chile, Cuba, Guyana, Honduras, Paraguay, and other Central … Read More
Thousands of Cubans have started to join other migrants in caravans heading for the U.S. southern border to apply for political asylum, Cubans in Latin America have told el Nuevo Herald. From Guyana to Paraguay and Chile, Cuban migrants are … Read More
Many of the major policies that former Vice President Joe Biden is proposing are already in place in California to some degree. Credit: Illustration by Dan Hubig for CalMatters – California has become a laboratory for progressive policies CALIFORNIA, USA … Read More
The U.S. Treasury Department, shown here in 2019, has been hacked along with the U.S. Commerce Department, according to reports. Russia is suspected but denies involvement. The U.S. government has acknowledged a breach and says it is investigating to make … Read More
Three candidates to lead German conservative party hold TV debate. The three men are battling to replace Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as CDU leader | Bernd von Jutrczenka/Getty Images Friedrich Merz, one of the candidates to become leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic … Read More
FILE – In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 file photo, two-year-old Akon Morro, who is anemic and suffers from edema due to malnutrition, sits on the floor of a feeding center in Al Sabah Children’s Hospital in the capital Juba, … Read More
European Union’s negotiator Michel Barnier arrives for a meeting of the representatives of the Governments of the EU Member States, Brussels, December 14, 2020. The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said he still has the firm belief that a … Read More