The fame and conspiracy theories the Rothschilds have long drawn have their roots in the family's success in banking
"This town is heartbroken, devastated," says Adolfo Hernandez, whose nephew was at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. "You just want to pinch yourself and wake up from that horrible nightmare," he tells AFP.The tight-knit Latino community in the town is wracked with grief after a teen in body armor marched into an elementary school and killed 19 small children and two teachers, in the latest spasm of deadly gun violence in America.
Democrat Beto O'Rourke interrupted a news briefing on the Uvalde school shooting to accuse Texas Governor Greg Abbott of deadly inaction on gun control
Xi was quick to criticise countries that lecture others on human rights
At the height of his career, Vietnamese hacker Ngo Minh Hieu made a fortune stealing the personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans.
The panting Ukrainian soldier gripping a Kalashnikov with fear blazing in his eyes had not moved a step from his roadside ditch for five hours.
Beijing warns that President Joe Biden's Taiwan policy will have "irredeemable consequences" for the China-US relationship if the United States continues down "the wrong path". Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin accuses the US of "covertly and secretly" supporting "Taiwan independence separatist activities". President Biden said Washington's "strategic ambiguity" policy on Taiwan remains unchanged.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson braced Wednesday for the release of a senior civil servant's long-awaited full report into a "Partygate" scandal, as new allegations emerged about a culture of lockdown-breaking boozing in his offices.
There will be an “adverse impact” on the prices of chicken and related products in Singapore, the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) said.
Western European juggernauts OG claimed the championship of the ESL One Dota 2 Stockholm Major, capping off an incredible lower bracket run by defeating North American powerhouse TSM FTX 3-1 in the grand finals on Sunday (23 May). OG's run in the Stockholm Major is made even more remarkable by the fact that they won with stand-ins. After Mikhail "Misha" Agatov and Evgenii "Chuvash" Makarov encountered visa issues, OG veterans and two-time The International champions Sébastien "Ceb" Debs and Johan "N0tail" Sundstein stood in as the team's position 5 support and coach, respectively, for the Major. Read more: OG defeat TSM FTX 3-1 to win ESL One Dota 2 Stockholm Major
India's Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday that a crude oil price of $110 a barrel was not sustainable, as the world faces an energy price crisis which is contributing to rising global inflation. Oil prices have surged this year, with Brent crude hitting $139 a barrel in March for its highest price since 2008, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine exacerbated supply concerns. As countries around the world struggle with the impact of inflation on disposable income, India's Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on the same WEF panel that food inflation in the South Asian country was at a "manageable level".
The price of shares in Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras fell Tuesday in reaction to President Jair Bolsonaro firing its boss after only 40 days on the job.
A teacher at a top secondary school who got into a relationship with his student 11 years ago was on Tuesday (24 May) jailed for 15 months, according to media reports.
Empty playgrounds, lonely dogs and a constant backdrop of shelling fill the otherwise ghostly towns of Soledar and Bakhmut, located in the besieged Ukrainian east. The only movement is people boarding a bus -- storing their suitcases in the hold and preparing to flee.
A job crisis is looming for China’s youth as entry-level positions are disappearing across industries from tech to new energy vehicles amid the country’s rigid zero Covid-19 policy. Anecdotal evidence, local media reports and official statistics point to a rapid increase in the number of offers being withdrawn, a phenomenon only seen when there is a sudden and significant worsening of economic fundamentals. Jade Jiang, a native of south-central Hunan province and algorithm engineer who will grad
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that China "must explain itself" after a media consortium published leaked documents which appear to show thousands of photographs from inside a system of mass incarceration, including many people from the Uyghur minority. "These images are horrific and disturbing and they confirm... that the most serious human rights violations are taking place in Xinjiang", Baerbock says.
Indian shares gave up early gains to trade lower on Thursday, as losses in metal and energy stocks outweighed gains in financial counters, while persistent concerns over global inflation also weighed on investor sentiment. The NSE Nifty 50 index was down 0.36% at 15,967.80, as of 0502 GMT, while the S&P BSE Sensex fell 0.18% to 53,652.27.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare (L) has defended the security pact with China despite Western governments' fears
Cathay Pacific Airways flight crew have been told to use a newly created app to record all their activities during the first seven days of their two-week medical surveillance period in order to comply with the Hong Kong government’s pandemic requirements. The move, which came into effect last week, was in response to the government’s call last month for airlines to introduce “robust” mechanisms to ensure that aircrew fully complied with the requirements of the medical surveillance period upon re
Forced to flee fighting, Lyudmyla was assured the authorities would rehouse her in a town in western Ukraine. But when she arrived, they took one look at her and turned her away.
In a press conference, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson repeats his apologies after the publication of an internal inquiry by senior civil servant Sue Gray on lockdown-breaking parties at his residence of Downing Street, but maintains he believed they were "work events" and says he does not intend to resign "no matter how bitter and painful the conclusions of this may be".
