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
GENEVA — Last summer while dozens of Swiss pensioners were campaigning in the Alps to save their fast-melting glaciers, 85-year-old Marie-Eve Volkoff
BERLIN — Global investments in energy transition technologies must more than quadruple annually to stay in line with commitments made under the
