Trump tears into Biden policies at press conference in the Rose Garden
The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday announced a record rate hike in a bid to stifle record inflation across the euro area. The ECB’s three key interest rates were each raised by 75 basis points. “This major step frontloads the transition from the prevailing highly accommodative level of policy rates towards levels that will…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his rebellious Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Wednesday (November 6), effectively ending the nation’s three-party coalition government. The decision followed weeks of intense disputes within the coalition, comprised of Scholz’s Social Democrats, Lindner’s Free Democrats, and the Greens. The chancellery confirmed the firing after a high-stakes meeting with senior members…
An armed man has been shot dead by German police near the Nazi documentation centre and Israeli consulate in the southern city of Munich. The man, identified by police as an 18-year-old Austrian national, was hit during an exchange of fire with officers. Police said a man had been spotted in the area carrying a…
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding in Vietnam on Monday, raising the death toll in the Southeast Asian country to at least 64 from a typhoon and subsequent heavy rains that also damaged factories in export-focused northern industrial hubs, state media reported. Nine people died on…
More than 10,000 security personnel have been deployed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, ahead of Thursday’s local elections – the first direct polls in nearly 60 years. Somalia launched voter registration in April for the first time in decades, as the country has been struggling to emerge from decades of conflict and chaos, battling a bloody Islamist…
Israel launched an attack on the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday for the first time since a ceasefire ended fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militant group in November. Associated Press reporters in Beirut heard a large boom and witnessed smoke billowing from the area that Israel’s military had vowed to strike. Earlier Friday,…