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Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over Western US airspace: Pentagon

A senior defense official told Pentagon reporters that the U.S. has very high confidence it is a Chinese high-altitude balloon and it was flying over sensitive sites to collect information

Elon Musk surprise appearance as high-profile Tesla tweet trial wraps up

A high-profile trial focused on a 2018 tweet about the financing for a Tesla buyout that never happened drew a surprise spectator Friday

China says it is looking into report of spy balloon over US, urges calm

Mao said that politicians and the public should withhold judgment before we have a clear understanding of the facts

China, Hong Kong lose cross-border travel quota, Covid test to drive growth

Travel between Hong Kong and China will no longer require Covid-19 PCR tests nor be held to a daily limit, authorities announced Friday, as both places seek to drive economic growth

ASEAN foreign ministers to meet in Indonesia under shadow of Myanmar crisis

Myanmar belongs to the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, but the annual ministers' retreat is being held in Jakarta without Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin

Russia-Ukraine war: US to send Kyiv longer-range bombs in latest turnaround

The U.S. will provide ground-launched small diameter bombs as part of a $2.17 billion aid package it is expected to announce Friday, several U.S. officials said

Shell annual profit doubles to record high as war drives up energy costs

Shell also is raising its dividend payout by 15 per cent and buying back $4 billion worth of shares

European Central Bank outpaces US Federal Reserve with half-point hike

ECB officials say decisive action now will prevent inflation from becoming ingrained in wages, prices and people's expectations and force more drastic action later

Bank of England expected to raise interest rates to tame inflation

The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates by as much as half a percentage point Thursday as it seeks to tame the double-digit inflation

Hunter Biden seeks federal probe of Ex-Prez Trump allies over laptop

A lawyer for President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, asked the Justice Department in a letter to investigate close allies of former President Donald Trump and others

Biden administration recommends allowing major oil project in Alaska

The move while not final drew immediate anger from environmentalists who saw it as a betrayal of the president's pledges to reduce carbon emissions and promote clean energy sources

Russia eyeing eastern Ukraine push; Kyiv targets graft as war nears 1 yr

Zelenskyy was elected in 2019 on an anti-establishment and anti-corruption platform in a country long gripped by graft

King Charles III won't appear on new Australian bank notes: Central bank

King Charles III won't feature on Australia's new $5 bill, the nation's central bank announced Thursday, signaling a phasing out of the British monarchy from Australian bank notes

Rocket intercepted in south Israel, airstrikes staged in Gaza: Military

Militants fired a rocket into Israel's south Wednesday, the army said, setting off sirens and raising already heightened tensions under the country's new ultranationalist government

N Korea warns of 'toughest reaction' to allies' drills with Seoul

The United States and South Korea are also planning to hold a simulated exercise this month aimed at sharpening their response if North Korea uses nuclear weapons

US Air Force opposes Chinese company's corn plant for North Dakota

US-China business ties have become strained amid growing tensions between the two countries over security and trade issues, which often overlap

Sweden can't join NATO if Quran-burning is allowed: Turkey Prez Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reaffirmed that Turkey won't allow Sweden to join the NATO military alliance as long as the Scandinavian country permits protests desecrating Islam's holy book

Ukraine hails French gift of air-defense radar as 'cherry on the cake'

The minister was gifted a small model of the radar at the ceremony and brandished it with a big grin above his head

Myanmar resistance steadfast against military rule two years later

The opposition's General Strike Coordination Body, formed soon after the 2021 takeover, urged people to stay inside in their homes or workplaces from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m

Jerome Powell likely to underscore US Fed's inflation fight far from over

Chair Jerome Powell is likely to underscore that the Federal Reserve's primary focus remains the need to fight surging prices with still-higher interest rates