WASHINGTON – US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday rejected the idea of a near-term capital increase for the World Bank and said she expected US nominee Ajay Banga to win election as the bank‘s next leader, with
A Black former elevator operator at Tesla Inc’s flagship California assembly plant became emotional testifying at a trial on Wednesday about the psychological toll exacted on him by
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has a respiratory infection and will need to spend “a few days” in hospital for treatment, the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday, amid concern for
THE WORLD Health Organization (WHO)has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and
JIM O’NEILL, the former Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. chief economist who coined the acronym BRIC, said the bloc of nations that later
TAOYUAN, Taiwan/BEIJING — External pressure will not stop Taiwan engaging with the world, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday as she left
NEW YORK – US prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman–Fried, accusing the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of paying a $40 million bribe to Chinese officials so they
WASHINGTON – A top US regulator told a Senate panel on Tuesday that Silicon Valley Bank did a “terrible” job of managing risk before its collapse, fending off criticism from lawmakers who blamed bank watchdogs for
SEOUL/BUSAN – North Korea unveiled new, smaller nuclear warheads and vowed to produce more weapons-grade nuclear material to expand its arsenal, state media said on Tuesday, as a US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea for military drills. North Korea‘s Korean
BRUSSELS — European Union (EU) countries’ energy ministers are set to give final approval on Tuesday to the bloc’s law to end
