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Nancy Pelosi backing down to Bejing?

Will U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi back down to the Chinese Communist Party’s demands she avoids Taiwan on her Pacific tour? Questions have swirled over Pelosi’s possible stop in Taiwan that has fueled tension with Beijing. Chinese officials have gone so far as to threaten war if Pelosi stops by… Read More

Zelenskyy visits port amid attempts to alleviate grain shortage

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited a Black Sea port Friday as crews prepared terminals to export grain trapped by Russia’s five-month-old war, work that was inching forward a week after a deal was struck to allow critical food supplies to flow to millions of impoverished people facing hunger worldwide. “The… Read More

Eurozone experiences modest GDP growth despite high inflation

Inflation in the European countries using the euro currency shot up to another record in July, pushed by higher energy prices fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine, but the economy managed better-than-expected, if meager, growth in the second quarter. Annual inflation in the eurozone’s 19 countries rose to 8.9% in… Read More

Prosecutors say they seek 8-year prison term for Shakira

Prosecutors in Spain said Friday they would ask a court to sentence Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in prison, if she is convicted in her expected trial for alleged tax fraud. Shakira, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, is charged with failing to… Read More

Russia fines WhatsApp, Snapchat over data storage

Russian regulators have fined chat service WhatsApp and Snapchat for failing to store Russian users’ data on local servers, part of government efforts to control online activity. A Moscow court on Thursday imposed an 18 million ruble ($300,000) fine on chat service WhatsApp and a 1 million ruble penalty on… Read More

China warns Biden admin of ‘fire’ amid this rumor

President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping spent more than two hours Thursday talking through the future of their complicated relationship, with the flashpoint of Taiwan once again emerging as a key point of tension. According to an outline of the call released by Beijing, Xi emphasized China’s claim over… Read More

Africa, alone in monkeypox deaths, still has no vaccine doses

Africa still does not have a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine even though it’s the only continent to have documented deaths from the disease that’s newly declared a global emergency, its public health agency announced Thursday. “Let us get vaccines onto the continent,” the acting head of the Africa… Read More

US rocket system lets Ukraine to pummel key bridge

Ukrainian troops used American-supplied precision rocket launchers to knock out a strategic bridge used by Russia to supply its forces in southern Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region, officials said Wednesday. Ukraine also claimed to have destroyed an enemy ammunition depot, artillery pieces and other military equipment in the region, killing 51… Read More

Shakira rejects plea deal, faces tax fraud trial

Colombian pop singer Shakira has opted to go to trial instead of accepting a deal offered by Spanish prosecutors to settle allegations she defrauded Spain’s government of 14.5 million euros ($15 million) in taxes, her public relations team said Wednesday. Shakira, 45, “trusts her innocence and chooses to leave the… Read More

5 killed, dozens injured after strong quake in Philippines

A strong earthquake set off landslides and damaged buildings in the northern Philippines on Wednesday, killing at least five people and injuring dozens. In the capital, hospital patients were evacuated and terrified people rushed outdoors. The 7-magnitude quake was centered in a mountainous area of Abra province, said Renato Solidum,… Read More