The United States on Tuesday accused companies in the United Arab Emirates, the Central African Republic and Russia of engaging in illicit gold deals to help fund the mercenary fighters of Russia's Wagner Group. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement it has sanctioned four companies linked to Wagner and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, that it alleged were used to help pay the paramilitary's forces fighting in Ukraine and undertaking operations to support Russian interests in Africa. "The Wagner Group funds its brutal operations in part by exploiting natural resources in countries...
The first confirmed U.S. case of someone infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus has been discovered in the Western state of California, U.S. health officials said Wednesday. The person returned to the U.S. from a trip to South Africa on November 22 and tested positive on Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert and President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, told reporters at the White House. Fauci said the person had mild coronavirus symptoms, was self-quarantining and was improving. The person was fully vaccinated, Fauci said, but had yet to...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday began a lengthy process to develop an international agreement on the prevention and control of future pandemics. The WHO's World Health Assembly - the organization's decision-making body - approved the effort at the end of a rare, three-day special session at the organization's headquarters in Geneva. The plan, entitled "The World Together," was created as the world is facing the new omicron variant of coronavirus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the decision, saying the pandemic has exposed shortcomings in the...
Playground outside a day care center in North Texas, preschoolers laughing happily, chasing each other in a house. There is a toddler playing on a tricycle. Also a boy who was crying, while his teacher helped assemble the toys. If we look outside the playground, we see between the trees, there is a natural gas drilling site owned by Total Energies. The French energy giant wants to drill three new wells to the right of the Mother's Heart Learning Center, which mainly caters to African American and Latin American children. The three new wells, along with two other existing wells, are located...
Tel Aviv is the world's most expensive city to live in as soaring inflation has pushed up living costs globally, according to a survey published Wednesday. The Israeli city climbed five rungs to score top place for the first time in the authoritative ranking compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The Worldwide Cost of Living Index is compiled by comparing prices in U.S. dollars for goods and services in 173 cities. Tel Aviv climbed the rankings partly due to the strength of the national currency, the shekel, against the dollar, as well increases in prices for transport and...
Japan confirmed on Tuesday its first case of the new omicron coronavirus variant, a visitor who recently arrived from Namibia, an official said. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said the patient, a man in his 30s, tested positive upon arrival at an airport on Sunday and was isolated and is being treated at a hospital. A genome analysis confirmed Tuesday that he was infected with the new variant, which was first identified in South Africa. Japan announced on Monday that it will ban all foreign visitors beginning Tuesday as an emergency precaution against the variant. The World...
North and South Korea have restored a communication hotline that was cut off by Pyongyang last June.
According to the South's presidential office, the leaders of both countries have agreed to...
Critical infrastructure facilities were hit by drone strikes early on Thursday, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Volodymyr Zelenskiy's presidential office said on Thursday.
"Another attack...
Andrew McCabe, pejabat FBI No. 2 yang secara umum dikritik Presiden Donald Trump atas dugaan bias politik, mundur dari biro tersebut hari Senin waktu AS, beberapa minggu sebelum masa pensiunnya,...