The State Department’s top aid official said on Thursday that $1.8 billion in new humanitarian aid to be provided by the U.S. through the United Nations would be used in
There are no confirmed cases in the United States of the Andes hantavirus outbreak that killed three people aboard a luxury cruise ship this month, U.S.health officials said on Thursday,
Plans for a US$1.1 billion (S$1.4 billion), 91-storey Trump hotel and apartment tower in Australia have been scrapped because the American brand has become “toxic”, the developer says.The Trump Organization
Almost 90 people were killed in a violent storm that pounded India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh with rain and hail, a state official told Reuters. Storms are common
Sierra Leone on Wednesday declared a measles outbreak amid increasing confirmed infections, with health authorities warning of active community transmission in its capital, Freetown.A total of 41 confirmed measles cases
Venezuela has begun a “comprehensive and orderly process” to restructure the country’s foreign debt and that of the state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), the government announced Wednesday.The
All 11 people aboard a private airplane that crashed at sea off central Florida survived the wreck and were rescued from their lifeboat hours later by a U.S. Air Force
Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with drones and missiles early on Thursday, officials said, injuring at least four people and damaging several buildings, including one which partially collapsed with
The Philippines president called an emergency meeting of top officials on Thursday amid widening political tensions, a day after gunfire rang out at the Senate where a lawmaker wanted by
The possibility that an entity other than Iran was responsible for the attack against a South Korean cargo vessel near the Strait of Hormuz is low, a senior official in