Politics Aug 22 Biden to attend next month's G-20 summit in New Delhi, while Harris will head to Jakarta for ASEAN Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the meetings—and Biden's talks with leaders on the sidelines of the summit—will focus on climate change, Russia's war in Ukraine and more.
World Aug 22 Russia's lunar mission failure raises questions about state of space program “The priceless experience that our predecessors earned in the 1960-70s was effectively lost,” Borisov said. “The link between generations has been cut.”…
World Aug 21 Greek PM Mitsotakis pledges to continue support for Ukraine during Zelenskyy meeting Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has pledged to keep up military support for Ukraine for as long as it takes during talks in Athens with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Nation Aug 21 14 people shot, one fatally, in 3 separate incidents in Milwaukee neighborhood, police say Thirteen people were injured and one was killed in three separate shootings, just blocks from each other, over the weekend, Milwaukee police said.
World Aug 21 Russia's first lunar mission in decades ends with spacecraft crash on the moon Roscosmos said it lost contact with the Luna-25 on Saturday after the spacecraft ran into difficulties and reported an “abnormal situation.” The Luna-25 was in a race with an Indian spacecraft to be the first to reach the moon's south…
World Aug 21 In referendum, Ecuador voters reject oil drilling project in protected part of Amazon Ecuadorians voted against drilling for oil in a protected area of the Amazon, an important decision that will require the state oil company to end its operations in a region that’s home to two uncontacted tribes and is a hotspot…
World Aug 18 China's Xi calls for measures to mitigate flooding amid economic downturn Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for measures to mitigate the effects of this year's disastrous flooding which has left scores dead and inflicted massive damage on crops, homes and infrastructure, including in and around Beijing.
World Aug 18 Neighbors Ukraine and Romania sign accord to boost grain exports through Romanian territory The accord was signed during a trip by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal to the Romanian capital, Bucharest, for talks with his Romanian counterpart Marcel Ciolacu.
Politics Aug 18 James Buckley, conservative senator and brother of late writer William F. Buckley, dies at 100 Buckley spent a single term in the 1970s in the Senate, where the conservative was one of the first Republican lawmakers to call for President Richard Nixon's resignation in the Watergate scandal.
Politics Aug 18 China confirms President Xi will attend BRICS summit in South Africa China is a core member of the BRICS nations, which also include Brazil, Russia and India. The grouping was founded to link the interests of the world's leading emerging economies but has sought to expand into other civil and governmental…