Former Hurricane Julia has drenched the Central American nations of Guatemala and El Salvador, forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of residents and set up emergency shelters, and killing over a dozen people across the region. Julia has been downgraded to a tropical depression, bringing wind […]
Technology is the latest sector to be affected by tensions between the United States and China. US President Joe Biden has imposed sweeping controls on exports of semiconductors to Beijing. Also known as “semis” or “chips”, semiconductors are needed to run nearly all electronics from […]
JPMorgan Chase Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon has said in an interview with CNBC that the United States and the global economy could tip into a recession by the middle of the next year. Runaway inflation, big interest rates hikes, the Russian invasion of Ukraine […]
Mexico has filed another lawsuit in the United States against US companies it says are fuelling a surge in homicides and the flow of illegal weapons into the country, the Mexican foreign minister announced. Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said the new lawsuit targets five […]
Kanye West once suggested slavery was a choice. He called the COVID-19 vaccine “the mark of the beast”. Earlier this month, he was criticised for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his collection at Paris Fashion Week. Now the rapper who is legally known […]
Hungary and Serbia have agreed to build a pipeline to supply Serbia with Russia’s crude oil as European Union sanctions limit supplies via Croatia, the Hungarian government has announced. Currently, Serbia receives its oil from Russia through the JANAF oil pipeline through Croatia. But last […]
On Sunday, the day after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 70th birthday, a blast severely damaged the bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula to Russia. The explosion is widely believed to be the work of Ukrainian intelligence. On Monday, a barrage of missiles rained down across Ukraine […]
The disappearance of dozens of Mexican students in 2014 has gained renewed attention in recent weeks as relatives marked its eight-year anniversary with fresh calls for justice and accountability. Top military officials were arrested in September for their alleged involvement in the disappearances, but the Mexican […]
The attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge has highlighted that nowhere is Russia invulnerable. Despite heavy security, innovative defences and dire warnings of retaliation if targeted, this symbol of Russian pride and engineering – at 19km (12 miles) the longest bridge in Europe – was […]
The European Union (EU) has said it is declaring the head of Nicaragua’s delegation to the European bloc “persona non grata”, just weeks after the Central American nation expelled the EU ambassador from the country. In a statement on Monday, the EU said its decision […]
