Tech CEOs testify in House Judiciary Committee hearing on antitrust law
Edan Alexander, the last living American held hostage by Hamas, was freed from Gaza Monday — more than 19 months after he was taken captive. Alexander, a 21-year-old Israeli-American citizen from New Jersey, was turned over to the Israeli military after Red Cross officials secured him from the militant group just after 7:30 p.m. local…
A senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official has arrived in China amid a row over comments Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae made in relation to Taiwan. The director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Kanai Masaaki, arrived in Beijing on Monday afternoon. During the visit, Kanai is expected to meet with Chinese officials,…
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Islamic State-backed rebels attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo on Sunday, killing at least 34 people, according to a local civil society leader. Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, told The Associated Press that the attackers stormed the church in Komanda town at around…
Rejoiners like to pretend the economic figures all go their way. But could the UK be sitting on a £525bn fiscal bonanza? Some readers may have noticed that I am a supporter of Brexit. I am familiar with the arguments and rarely surprised. But I was surprised by two analyses that were sent recently to…
The European Union plan to use as much as $3.25 billion in profits from Russian sovereign assets — frozen by sanctions due to Russia’s war on Ukraine — to fund Ukraine and its military. “Russia must pay for its war damages,” Czech Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Lipavský said as he shared the monetary…
The Israeli military recovered the bodies of two dead hostages in southern Gaza Wednesday night, including a 59-year-old dad who was killed during Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack. The Israel Defense Forces swept through an area of Khan Younis flagged by the Shin Bet intelligence agency, with soldiers finding the bodies of Yair Yaakov, 59, and another…