US, European lawmakers call for head of UN climate talks to be removed over fossil fuel links
Scores of members of Congress and the European Parliament called Tuesday for the designated chair of the next United Nations climate summit to be replaced over his ties to the fossil fuel sector and for the industry’s influence at the upcoming talks to be sharply limited
2023-05-24 01:53
Canada Watchdog Rejects Call for Inquiry on China Meddling
Canada should hold hearings on foreign meddling in elections, but shouldn’t start a formal public inquiry into allegations
2023-05-24 01:49
Russia claims it repelled one of war's most serious cross-border attacks
Russian troops and security forces quashed an alleged cross-border raid from Ukraine in what appeared to be one of the most serious cross-border attacks since the war began
2023-05-24 01:29
Pakistan’s Khan Wins Some Respite as Legal Fight Inches Forward
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan won bail in multiple cases from an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad, a
2023-05-24 00:28
Tempers rise as German government's clean heating plans moved to back burner
Germany’s government is facing a major test after two junior partners in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition sparred publicly over a key element in the country’s ambitious climate policy
2023-05-24 00:25
China presses Dutch minister for access to chipmaking tech blocked on security grounds
China’s foreign minister has pressed his Dutch counterpart for access to advanced chipmaking technology that has been blocked on security grounds and warned against allowing what he said were unfounded fears of Beijing to spoil relations
2023-05-24 00:15
America's borrowing is its superpower. A default would tarnish that
Call it American financial exceptionalism: The full faith and credit of the US government goes far, but a default because of the debt ceiling would change that.
2023-05-24 00:15
IMF forecasts UK economic growth in major U-turn
The IMF on Tuesday delivered a major U-turn on its forecast for the UK economy, saying it expected growth this year just one...
2023-05-23 23:55
Tesla might have just released its first-ever ad
Tesla has released what is possibly its first-ever commercial, a week after Elon Musk announced the company was going to "try a little advertising and see how it goes."
2023-05-23 23:54
US debt talks to resume after 'productive' Biden-McCarthy meeting
Negotiations to avert a catastrophic US debt default look set to go to the wire, with talks resuming Tuesday after President Joe Biden and the Republican speaker of the House failed to reach agreement...
2023-05-23 23:50
UPS strike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time
The last time UPS workers walked of the job more than two decades ago, it crippled the shipping company
2023-05-23 22:49
Boeing CEO says supply chain pressure could continue through 2024
DOHA Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun on Tuesday said it could take until the end of next year
2023-05-23 22:22