Support for war-torn Ukraine will top the agenda at G7 finance talks on Thursday, but ministers and central bankers will also weigh concerns from banking uncertainty to US debt default fears.. "With the EU Commission now supporting US leadership here, further serious G7 agreement and action will come," he said ahead of the Niigata talks, which Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko will join virtually.
Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is to make a rare live appearance on Wednesday on CNN, a day after being found liable of sexually abusing and defaming an American magazine columnist.. Trump dismissed the accusations as a "hoax" but the jury determined that Carroll had been sexually abused by the real estate tycoon and his denials amounted to defamation.
Tens of thousands of US law enforcement personnel have been deployed to the border with Mexico, officials said Wednesday, as waiting migrants voiced confusion and anger over a looming change to entry rules.. - 'I couldn't wait any longer' - Hundreds of migrants who had already crossed into the United States -- many of them Venezuelans -- have handed themselves in to border patrol agents in El Paso.
Faced with confusing rule changes, rumors spread by people smugglers and a complicated online application process, migrants waiting at the US-Mexican border say they feel trapped in a legal labyrinth.. Mexico has urged migrants not to be deceived by people smugglers spreading rumors that they will be able to enter the United States when Title 42 is lifted.
Australia's "Black Summer" bushfire catastrophe coughed up so much smoke it may have fuelled the global onset of La Nina in 2020, according to new research published Thursday.. The "Black Summer" bushfires raged across Australia's eastern seaboard from late 2019 to early 2020, razing swathes of forest, killing millions of animals, and blanketing cities in noxious smoke.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has filed a suit with a court demanding the withdrawal of parts of a biography published this month, arguing they violate her private life, the publishing house said on Wednesday.. In the filing with the court in Nanterre outside Paris, Borne has demanded the withdrawal of several passages from the book.
The UK government on Wednesday scrapped an end-of-year deadline to ditch remaining European Union-era laws from the statute book -- angering Brexiteer Conservatives.. Rather than meeting its pledge to scrap 4,000 items of EU legislation, the government will only revoke around 600 laws, Badenoch said, insisting the plan is "about more than a race to a deadline".
Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin, set to leave office after losing a general election, announced Wednesday that she and her husband have filed for divorce.. From steering her country into NATO to headlines about partying, Sanna Marin was Finland's most popular prime minister in decades but nonetheless proved a polarising figure.
Fifteen children drowned and 25 others were missing after their overloaded boat capsized on a river in northwest Nigeria, a local official said Wednesday. . "We woke up to a tragedy yesterday morning, where a boat carrying children capsized mid-river," Abubakar told AFP. "Fifteen bodies, 13 girls and two boys, were recovered by local rescue teams and buried in the village," said the official, who supervised the rescue operation.
Hong Kong's most prominent political cartoonist has had his comic strip suspended after a satirical post was criticised by government bodies, the artist and a source with direct knowledge of the matter said Wednesday.. A source with direct knowledge confirmed to AFP that Wong's cartoons would be suspended on Sunday.
