WORLD NEWS: JAPAN GOVT TO APPROVE $140 BILLION STIMULUS FOR CITIZENS
Agency Report Following the worst election outcome for the ruling party in 15 years, Japan's minority government was scheduled to approve a $140-billion stimulus package...
SINGAPORE GOVT HANGS THIRD DRUG TRAFFICKER IN A WEEK
Agency Report According to Singapore's narcotics enforcement agency, a 55-year-old man was hanged on Friday for drug trafficking. This was the city-state's third execution in...
FORMER UK DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER JOHN PRESCOTT DIES AT 86
According to his family on Thursday, John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister of Britain who worked under Tony Blair and helped revolutionize the nation's...
WORLD NEWS: US GOVT CALLS FOR BREAKUP OF GOOGLE AND CHROME
In a significant antitrust attack on the internet behemoth, the US government requested a judge late Wednesday to force the sale of Google's popular Chrome...
WORLD NEWS: MALI JUNTA CHIEF SACKS PM, GOVERNMENT
Mali’s junta chief on Wednesday sacked civilian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga and the government, days after Maiga issued a rare criticism of the military...
SERBIAN TRADE MINISTER RESIGNS OVER TRAIN STATION TRAGEDY
Serbian trade minister Tomislav Momirovic resigned on Wednesday, the second cabinet member to step down as the government faces widespread outrage over a train station...
JUDGE SET TO RULE ON THROWING OUT TRUMP HUSH MONEY CONVICTION
Agency Report The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal case is expected to decide Tuesday whether the US President-elect will face sentencing, or escape...
WORLD NEWS: BRAZIL ARRESTS FOUR G20 GUARDS OVER ALLEGED 2022 LULA ASSASSINATION PLOT
Agency Report Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested four soldiers guarding the G20 summit over an alleged plot to assassinate then President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da...
FOREIGN: SWEDEN, FINLAND URGE RESIDENTS TO PREPARE FOR WAR
As neighboring Finland created a new readiness website, Sweden started distributing some five million brochures to its citizens on Monday, asking them to get ready...
SOUTH KOREAN OPPOSITION LEADER BAGS SUSPENDED JAIL TERM
A South Korean court handed the country’s opposition leader a suspended prison sentence Friday for violating election laws — a ruling that may prevent him...