Iran, which has applied for observer status in BRICS, is finessing non-Western states to remedy its battered economy. Iran, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates foreign ministers attended the BRICS meeting in South Africa this week, as the bloc seeks … Read More
Japan’s fertility rate fell to a record-tying low of 1.26 in 2022, declining for the seventh straight year, according to health ministry data released Friday. The total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman will give birth … Read More
Fitch says it could still downgrade US credit rating amid ‘brinkmanship’ concerns Fitch Ratings said Friday it is holding the United States on watch for a possible credit downgrade, even though Congress passed a bipartisan debt ceiling agreement that will … Read More
KAMPALA, June 1 (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has defended signing one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, with punishments up to and including the death penalty, saying it was needed to prevent LGBTQ community members he said were … Read More
EU ministers expressed “discomfort” on Tuesday at political outlier Hungary taking on the bloc’s rotating presidency next year, but Budapest vowed nothing could prevent it filling the prominent role. The European Parliament is to vote on a non-binding resolution on … Read More
The US and Taiwan are set to sign a new trade deal on Thursday as tensions with China rise. It will be the first agreement under a framework for talks between Washington and Taipei called the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st … Read More
May 31 (UPI) — For the first time, scientists have taken the first X-ray signal of a single atom, with such detection having the potential to revolutionize such areas of science like quantum information, nanotechnology, and environmental and medical science … Read More
The failed launch triggered false alarms in neighboring Japan and South Korea. North Korea’s attempt to launch a military satellite to orbit ended in failure as the rocket suffered a malfunction mid-flight, triggering air raid sirens in neighboring countries. The … Read More
LONDON (AP) — The United States and Europe are drawing up a voluntary code of conduct for artificial intelligence, a top European Union official said Wednesday, as the developing technology triggers warnings about the risks it poses to humanity and … Read More
Speaker Kevin McCarthy says the House will vote Wednesday on the deal he struck with the president – here are the details of the 99-page bill Details of the deal between Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy take the form of … Read More