Latin America’s COVID-19 situation remains devastating
NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The Group of 20 major economies reached a hard-fought compromise over the war in Ukraine and papered over other key differences in a summit declaration at the weekend, presenting few concrete achievements in its core remit of responses to global financial issues. Diplomats and analysts said the surprise consensus…
BALTIMORE (AP) — Crews opened a second temporary channel on Tuesday allowing a limited amount of marine traffic to bypass the mangled wreckage of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which had blocked the vital port’s main shipping channel since its destruction one week ago. Work is ongoing to open a third channel that will…
Hamas previously said it would delay the next hostage release – prompting Israel to respond with threats to renew its offensive in Gaza. Hamas has said it will release Israeli hostages as planned and will implement the Gaza ceasefire deal. It had previously threatened to delay the next release of hostagesafter accusing Israel of failing…
Trump said the new ‘Golden Fleet’ of battleships would expand U.S. naval power and speed up defense production President Donald Trump announced a new fleet of ships Monday, known as the “Golden Fleet,” as he revealed he approved plans for two new “very large battleships.” “As you know, we’re desperately in need of ships. Our…
North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea, South Korea’s military has said. In a statement it said two launches had been detected from the North’s eastern coastal Tongchon area around mid-day on Friday. Tongchon is about 60km (37 miles) away from the inter-Korean border. The area was apparently closer to South…
Sir Keir Starmer is the UK’s new prime minister, after his Labour Party swept to power in a landslide general election victory. The Conservative Party suffered a dramatic collapse after a tumultuous 14 years in power, which saw five different prime ministers run the country. It lost 250 seats over the course of a devastating…