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Myanmar Resistance Announces Partial Ceasefire to Facilitate Relief Efforts
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 04:19:47 UTC
BANGKOK (AP) — A unilateral partial ceasefire to facilitate earthquake relief efforts was announced on Saturday by Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government, which coordinates the popular struggle against the ruling military. The country's death toll from the disaster soared to 1,644. ...
Crowds Swarm Tesla Showrooms Nationwide to Protest Elon Musk
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:14:03 UTC
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Protesters against billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump demonstrated outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. and in some cities in Europe on Saturday in the latest attempt to dent the fortune of the world’s richest man. ...
American Woman Held in Afghanistan by Taliban Has Been Released
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:49:49 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American woman detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released from custody, according to a person familiar with the matter and a social media post Saturday from a longtime U.S. diplomat. ...
Trump Tells NBC He ‘Couldn’t Care Less’ About Auto Prices
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 23:21:01 UTC
President Donald Trump said he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raise car prices in response to the planned tariffs on imported vehicles. ...
Le Pen’s Bid for President Threatened by Paris Court Ruling
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 08:00:00 UTC
Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally party, will find out on Monday whether she’ll be banned from running for president in 2027 as Paris judges rule on an embezzlement case that’s put her political future in jeopardy. ...
Israel Sends Counter-Proposal on Gaza Deal, Moves Into Rafah
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:22:50 UTC
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it conveyed a counteroffer to mediators, in coordination with the US, following reports that Hamas had agreed to an Egyptian proposal on a potential new truce in Gaza. ...
Big Law’s Big Lawyer to Fight Trump Is a Conservative Superstar
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:45:00 UTC
He is, by most accounts, a LeBron James of lawyers – a master who’s handled more Supreme Court cases than just about anyone else in recent history. ...
Trump Revokes Permits to US, Foreign Oil Firms in Venezuela
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:36:43 UTC
The Trump administration revoked permits and waivers allowing Western energy firms to operate in Venezuela, three people familiar with the issue said Saturday. The move further isolates Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from the world oil market. ...
Danish Prime Minister to Visit Greenland Next Week
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:07:34 UTC
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen plans to visit Greenland next week to bolster the commonwealth between the two countries, as the US ramps up its rhetoric about taking over the Arctic island. ...
Kyiv to Seek More US Investments in Talks Over Economic Deal
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:32:19 UTC
Ukraine will ask for changes to a sweeping new economic deal proposed by President Donald Trump, including a pledge for more US investment, according to a person familiar with the matter. ...
Trump Drama Drowns Out Canadian Conservatives’ Election Message
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:00:33 UTC
Pierre Poilievre seemed to be on an unstoppable march to political victory. ...
Turkey’s Opposition Calls for Imamoglu Release at Huge Rally
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:34:20 UTC
Massive crowds gathered on Saturday for demonstrations organized by Turkey’s main opposition party to protest the imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. ...
Commodity Traders Still Rake In Billions as Profit Bonanza Wanes
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:00:00 UTC
The world’s largest commodity traders are still making historically elevated profits, even as less-volatile markets mean their earnings have retreated from the bonanza that followed Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine. ...
Brazil’s Lula Says He’ll Negotiate on Tariffs Before Retaliating
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:32:36 UTC
Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the country’s first line of defense against US tariffs will be negotiation rather than immediate retaliatory measures. ...
Iraq Gives Lebanon Six-Month Exception for Fuel Supplies
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:21:38 UTC
Iraqi’s cabinet has agreed to give the country’s oil ministry an exception to supply Lebanon with fuel for six months, the cabinet said in a statement. ...
Columbia Names Shipman Acting President as Armstrong Steps Down
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:25 UTC
Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong said she is leaving her position, ending a tumultuous tenure that was marked by confrontation with the Trump administration and outcry from faculty and students over the school’s response. ...
Denmark Rebukes US for Tone After Vance’s Greenland Trip
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:15:36 UTC
Denmark’s foreign minister responded to the “tone” of US remarks after Vice President JD Vance visited Greenland, the remote and resource-rich Arctic island coveted by President Donald Trump. ...
Hegseth Signs Memo to Reduce Department of Defense’s Workforce
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:54:47 UTC
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum that aims to reduce the Department of Defense’s civilian workforce as the federal government seeks to cut spending. ...
Zelenskiy Says Russia Mocks Peace Effort With Deadly Drone Swarm
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:15:01 UTC
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia is mocking efforts toward peace following a deadly overnight drone barrage across several Ukrainian regions. ...
Farage Tries to Sell Trumpism Without Trump to British Voters
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:06:16 UTC
Donald Trump still appears in the ascendancy as he reshapes the global trading system and rips up the norms of American diplomacy. In Britain, however, the US president’s rise is complicating the electoral path for his biggest cheerleader, Nigel Farage. ...
Swedish Journalist Arrested in Turkey on Terrorism Charge
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:19:16 UTC
Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been arrested in Turkey on charges of “insulting the president” and “membership of an armed terrorist organization,” according to state-run Anadolu Agency, which cited the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. ...
Trump Orders Global Oil Terminals to Leave Venezuela, WSJ Says
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 06:40:10 UTC
The Trump administration has ordered Republican donor Harry Sargeant III’s oil-trading company to leave Venezuela, the Wall Street Journal reports. ...
Starmer Faces Summer of Labour Revolts and Calls for Taxing Rich
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 06:00:00 UTC
Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure from politicians across his Labour Party to take a bolder approach on the UK economy that delivers more radical improvements to public services. Their solution? Raise taxes. ...
Xi Woos Global Business Leaders as Trump Escalates Trade War
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:09:18 UTC
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on global business leaders to push back against protectionism, seeking to take advantage of growing backlash to rising US tariffs to promote his country as a reliable partner. ...
Trump Commutes Prison Sentence for Ozy Media’s Carlos Watson
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:52:39 UTC
Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson, who was set to begin serving his nearly 10-year prison term for lying to investors in his startup, had his term commuted by President Donald Trump on Friday, according to a senior White House official. ...
Trump Commutes Sentence of Ozy Media Co-Founder Carlos Watson
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:52:20 UTC
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson on Friday, just hours before Watson was due to report to prison for a nearly 10-year sentence in a financial conspiracy case. ...
Top US Vaccine Official Resigns Citing RFK ‘Misinformation’ Push
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 02:16:21 UTC
The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator abruptly resigned Friday, citing what he called Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to spread misinformation about the safety of immunizations, according to a letter obtained by Bloomberg. ...
South Korea Ex-President Moon Summoned for Questioning: Yonhap
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:59:45 UTC
South Korean authorities have summoned former president Moon Jae-in for questioning as a part of an investigation into allegations of bribery related to his ex-son-in-law’s appointment at a Thai airline, Yonhap reported, citing an unidentified official at the prosecutors office. ...
Supreme Court Justice Says Judges Must Be ‘Fiercely Independent’
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:27:21 UTC
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told students at Georgetown University that judges should be “fiercely independent” in responding to growing challenges to the rule of law. ...
Appeals Court Lifts DOGE Limits in Musk Fight at Aid Agency
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:13:31 UTC
A federal appeals court will lift restrictions on the role that Elon Musk and people affiliated with his Department of Government Efficiency Project can play at the US agency that oversees foreign humanitarian aid. ...
