A drive along streets in the US state of California shows the kind of destruction left by several wildfires currently raging across the area around Los Angeles.
On Sunday, United States President-elect Donald Trump said that his new administration will try and regain control of the Panama Canal. His statements drew rebuke from Panama President Jose Raul Mulino. Here is more about what Trump said and why the Panama Canal is significant to the US: What did Trump say? Trump brought up…
United States and Russian officials have met in Saudi Arabia for the first high-level talks between the two countries since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, along with other senior officials, met on Tuesday morning in Riyadh’s Diriyah Palace. The…
United States President Joe Biden has used his final formal address as president to warn of the dangers of “oligarchy” and “extreme wealth” to democracy, as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to begin his second term with an administration stacked with billionaires. “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence…
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and family members who own the company have agreed to pay up to $7.4bn in a new settlement to end lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, New York Attorney General Letitia James says. The deal announced on Thursday represents an increase of more than $1bn over a previous…
North Korea has launched multiple short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off the country’s east coast, South Korea’s military reports. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the missile launches were detected on Tuesday morning at approximately 9:30am local time (00:30 GMT) and were believed to have originated from North Korea’s Jagang Province, the…
TV news provider CNN has reached a settlement with a United States Navy veteran who helped evacuate people from Afghanistan after the US military withdrew from the country in 2021, a judge has said, hours after a jury found the TV news outlet liable for defaming him. The six-person jury decided on Friday that CNN…
