WASHINGTON – The World Bank is seeking to vastly expand its lending capacity to address climate change and other global crises and will negotiate with shareholders ahead of April meetings on…
HONG KONG – As casinos in Macau begin new licenses to operate in the world’s biggest gambling hub on…
Authorities around the world are imposing or considering curbs on travellers from China as COVID-19 cases there surge following…
BEIJING – China’s state media played down the severity on Tuesday of the COVID-19 wave surging over the country, with its scientists expected to give a briefing to the World…
BREGANA BORDER CROSSING, Croatia — Croatia rang in two historic changes with the new year, as the European Union’s…
SEOUL – South Korea and the United States are discussing possible joint planning and exercises using U.S. nuclear assets in the face of North Korea‘s growing nuclear and missile threats, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said…
MOSCOW – Russia’s buffeted IT sector risks losing more workers in the new year because of planned legislation on remote working,…
BRASILIA – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil‘s president on Sunday, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair…
WASHINGTON – Democratic US President Joe Biden will join Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a Wednesday event in Kentucky aimed at highlighting the effects…