Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday he had discussed the war between Russia and Ukraine and an upcoming BRICS summit with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa as they met in Paris. Ramaphosa recently led a delegation of African leaders to Russia and Kyiv seeking to share the continent’s “perspective on…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a setback to the Navajo Nation, rejecting its bid to require the federal government to develop a plan to secure water access for the tribe on reservation lands in the parched American southwest. The justices, in a 5-4 decision authored by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, concluded that an…
A Chinese aircraft carrier group led by the vessel Shandong sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, Taiwan’s defence ministry said, amid heightened military tension over the island Beijing claims as its own territory. The ministry said the Shandong, commissioned in 2019, had sailed in a southerly direction through the western part of the…
Wall Street extended its sell-off on Wednesday as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s congressional testimony reinforced the central bank’s campaign to rein in inflation as he hinted at the likelihood of further interest rate hikes. All three major U.S. stock indexes were on track to notch their third straight daily declines, with interest rate…
The Bank of Canada agreed that the need for further rate hikes would be determined by fresh economic data after it lifted rates to a 22-year high earlier this month, minutes from their policy meetings released on Wednesday showed. On June 7 the central bank, which had been on hold since January, raised its overnight…
British manufacturers expect to raise prices by the smallest amount since February 2021 over the next three months although price increases will still be much faster than their long-run average, a survey showed on Wednesday. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said its monthly index of manufacturers’ average selling price expectations slowed to +19 in…
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a New York county’s law barring anti-abortion activists from approaching people outside abortion clinics, teeing up potential review by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law adopted last year by Westchester County, New York, was valid under a 2000 Supreme Court ruling…
China’s exports to North Korea soared in April from a year earlier, with wigs and fertiliser among major shipments, Chinese customs data showed on Saturday. Chinese outbound shipments to the isolated country surged 69% year-on-year to $166 million in April, data released by China’s General Administration of Customs showed. The top export items in terms…
Passengers gather at Terminal 1 of Benito Juarez International Airport after authorities suspended the operations of the airport following the Popocatepetl volcano activity, in Mexico City, Mexico Mexico City’s Benito Juarez International Airport reported early on Saturday that it had closed its operations due to ash from the Popocatepetl volcano, which has been active for…
Air strikes hit outer areas of the Sudanese capital Khartoum overnight and on Saturday morning, as fighting that has trapped civilians in a humanitarian crisis and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week. The fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has led to a collapse in law and…
