More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers plan to strike at 65 U.S. stores Thursday to protest a lack of progress in labor negotiations with the company.
An Iranian man who set himself on fire after municipal workers shut down his family’s food stand has died from his injuries, prompting the country’s president to order
Armed men in Mali killed a TikTok influencer who had posted videos in support of the West African nation’s military, authorities said earlier this week. “The young TikTok user
The pain Americans are facing at airports across the country is expected to get worse this week if Congress is unable to reach a deal to reopen the
President Donald Trump granted a pardon Friday to a former New York police sergeant who was convicted of helping China try to scare an ex-official into going back to his homeland,
The South African government said yesterday it will investigate how 17 of its citizens were tricked into joining mercenaries in the Russia-Ukraine war after they asked for help to escape
Australia has added message board Reddit and livestreaming service Kick to its list of social media platforms that must ban children younger than 16 from holding accounts. The platforms
During his “60 Minutes” interview, President Donald Trump called Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer a “kamikaze,” complained about investigators searching through his wife›s closet, spoke in detail about ending wars
A Hong Kong court yesterday rejected a former Tiananmen vigil organizer’s attempt to quash her indictment, pressing ahead with a landmark case widely seen as part of a
The dragnet tightened around the Louvre yesterday. Five more people were seized in the crown-jewels heist — including a suspect tied by DNA — the Paris prosecutor said,
Russia targeted Ukraine’s capital with drones, killing three people in their homes, authorities said yesterday. At least 30 people were wounded, seven of them children, in the
President Donald Trump said yesterday his plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin was on hold because he didn’t want it to be a
Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of yesterday , after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down
A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in
Nestlé is cutting 16,000 jobs globally as the Swiss food giant cuts costs as part of its efforts to revive its financial performance. Nestlé, which makes Nescafé
Robotaxi pioneer Waymo plans to expand to London next year, marking the company’s latest step in rolling out its driverless ride service internationally. Waymo said yesterday that
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics yesterday for explaining how innovation creates new products and promotes economic growth and human
High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended in gunfire, with two separate shootings on opposite sides of the state Friday night that left at least eight people dead
The Trump administration yesterday imposed sanctions on a group of 50 people, companies and ships largely out of the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong and China, alleging they
Every night some 74,000 gallons of water are frozen at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. The hospital used to get all of its air conditioning from
Police have arrested a father and son suspected of repeatedly stealing spare electrical cables from a Cotai hotel, with the stolen goods later sold for about MOP17,000.
A court in China sentenced 11 people to death this week for their roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of running illegal gambling and scam operations worth
Pfizer is doubling down on obesity treatments by spending $4.9 billion on the development-stage drugmaker Metsera. The COVID-19 vaccine and treatment maker said early Monday that it
The U.K. was expected to recognize a Palestinian state yesterday despite opposition from the U.S., after judging that Israel has not met conditions it set over the war
With the Federal Reserve widely expected today to reduce its key interest rate by a quarter-point to about 4.1%, economists and Wall Street investors will be looking for signals
Six sprint events, including three at new locations, are on next year’s Formula 1 calendar. The total number of sprints stays the same, with the first event
Pakistan’s security forces raided two separate militant hideouts in the country’s northwest, killing 31 insurgents, the military said yesterday. The overnight raids took place in the districts
Ukrainian drones have struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, sparking a fire, Russian officials and Ukraine’s military said yesterday. The overnight strike on the Kirishi refinery,
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday fired the country’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, over his links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In
A Russian glide bomb struck a village in eastern Ukraine as people stood in line in the open air to collect their monthly pension. The blast killed at least 24
Apple today will unveil its next line-up of iPhones amid a global trade war that’s added a potential price increase to the usual intrigue surrounding the annual
President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Department of Defense goes beyond subjective word choices about whether to change a name that’s been in place since 1949.
Relentless monsoon rains have unleashed some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades across northern India, killing at least 90 people and displacing hundreds of thousands in
Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that U.S President Donald Trump’s administration is listening to the Kremlin’s justifications for its invasion of neighboring Ukraine and claimed that Moscow and Washington
For a few hopeful weeks this summer, a bright billboard on the major highway linking Toronto to New York greeted Canadian drivers with a simple message: “Buffalo Loves
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