A man rides bicycle on a snow-covered street after snowfall in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on December 29, 2024. Kirill Kudryavtsev | Afp | Getty Images Annual inflation in the euro zone rose for a third straight month to reach 2.4% in December, statistics agency Eurostat said Tuesday. The preliminary reading was in line ...
Reuters More than 1,000 buildings have been damaged by the earthquake At least 95 people have been confirmed dead and 130 are injured after a major earthquake struck the mountainous Tibet region on Tuesday morning, Chinese state media say. The earthquake that hit Tibet’s holy Shigatse city around 09:00 local time (01:00 GMT) had a ...
Washington opens the way for transactions needed for humanitarian purposes, in a move seen as an ‘important step’ towards easing the West’s sanctions regime on the country. The United States has announced it is easing select restrictions on Syria’s transitional government. The US Treasury late on Monday issued a general licence, lasting six months, that ...
A Republican senator was expressing his unhappiness to Susie Wiles, the incoming White House chief of staff. “I texted you three days ago,” the lawmaker said. Wiles, who ran Donald Trump’s campaign, said she got it and would respond, without sounding like she was in a rush. There’s little doubt that her phone must be ...
GUWAHATI, India — At least nine workers are trapped inside a coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state, officials said Tuesday, as authorities summoned the army to help in the rescue operation. The miners were trapped on Monday morning in the Umrangso area in Dimapur Hasao district, some 125 miles (200 kilometers) south of the ...
Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s founder, president and CEO, speaks about the future of artificial intelligence and its effect on energy consumption and production at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 27, 2024. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Nvidia revealed new chips for desktop and laptop PCs on Monday that use the same Blackwell ...
Russia claims that its forces have captured the front-line town of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The town has borne the brunt of Russian advances in recent months and is a stepping-stone to the key logistical hub of Pokrovsk. Ukraine has not acknowledged the fall of Kurakhove, which is 35km (21 miles) south of ...
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Tremors were reported as far away as northern India and Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, where buildings shook. Dozens of people have been reported killed after a powerful earthquake hit near Tibet’s second-largest city of Shigatse, according to Chinese and US monitoring groups, with tremors felt hundreds of kilometres away in Nepal. The earthquake ...
Fox News host Sean Hannity says President Biden is getting worse every day as he prepares to leave office on “Hannity.” SEAN HANNITY: Now, it’s only a matter of days before Donald Trump gets sworn into office. Not a moment too soon. Joe Biden has never been fit to serve as president. Every day he’s ...
JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas once again appear to be inching toward a ceasefire that could wind down the 15-month war in Gaza and bring home dozens of Israelis held hostage there. Both Israel and Hamas are under pressure from outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump to reach a deal before the ...