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Jerome Powell says the US central bank is undergoing a ‘stress test’ like other institutions in the current era.
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Jerome Powell says the US central bank is undergoing a ‘stress test’ like other institutions in the current era.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has accused the United States of interfering in Mexico’s internal affairs.
The country has vast reserves of the ore, a source material for aluminium. But citizens still languish in poverty.
Far-right outsider, Abelardo de la Espriella, will face leftist senator, Ivan Cepeda on June 21.
Cuba has begun distributing donated powdered milk from Mexico and Uruguay as the island faces severe shortages.
France requests UN Security Council meeting over Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, as Iran says talks with US continue.
The left-wing senator and far-right newcomer will face each other in a run-off on June 21, with security a top issue.
Lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella and peace-builder Iván Cepeda were leading the vote counts in the first round of Colombia’s presidential elections on Sunday, and are to face off in a presidential runoff in the South American nation later in June.
Rivera spent nearly three years in detention, cut off from the outside world, leading advocates to fear for his welfare.
Graham Platner’s wife called reports that her husband had previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women “shameful” over the weekend, the latest controversy to hit the Maine Democrat’s whirlwind campaign.
New Jersey orders curfew after immigration protests escalate.
Four years after the formal end of Ethiopia’s Tigray war, Ethiopians will be voting in general elections.
Continuing internal conflicts and deepening repression are casting a long shadow over the general election.
A national vote alone can’t address all challenges in the country, but it can be a step toward democratic consolidation.
Over the past several decades, demographic and economic changes have significantly altered how people experience work and aging.
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has called for the establishment of protest zones to minimise clashes with police.
Brooklyn Rivera, a renowned Indigenous leader from Nicaragua who spent years fighting for the rights of his community and was imprisoned by the government in September 2023, has died.
Since the Iran war began on Feb. 28, fertilizer prices have risen by 40%.
Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie say they will try to remove the pro-Israel section from US defence bill.
Analysts say the plan would weave Israeli military interests more deeply into the fabric of US national security policy.