Oil prices fluctuated in a narrow range on Thursday as the market weighed mixed U.S. economic signals and prospects for a Chinese demand recovery with a build in U.S. crude stockpiles and a stronger dollar. Brent crude futures rose 7 cents to $85.45 a barrel by 11:33 a.m. EST (1633 …

China on Thursday put Lockheed Martin and a unit of Raytheon Technologies on an “unreliable entities list” over arms sales to Taiwan, banning them from imports and exports related to China in its latest sanctions against the U.S. companies. The measures come amid heightened tensions after the U.S. military shot …

Israeli forces have demolished a five-story house belonging to the family of a Palestinian man who was killed after carrying out a shooting operation near an illegal settlement in the southern part of the occupied West Bank a few months ago. The Palestinian Information Center, citing local sources, reported on …

Government official Fahrettin Koca was visiting an area devastated by the recent earthquakes when the incident happened Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca escaped injury after embers exploded from a fire as he was inspecting rescue efforts in the southern province of Hatay, which was badly hit by the devastating recent …

One person was killed and three were wounded on Wednesday in a shooting at an El Paso, Texas, shopping mall, police said. A police spokesman, Robert Gomez, told reporters one suspect was in custody, but media reports said a second person was also taken into custody following the shooting at …

32 members of the Al-Shabab terrorist group were killed in the country’s military operation. The Somali National Army with the support of the Galmudug State forces and the local forces killed 32 Al-Shabaab militants and injured others after conducting a planned operation against terrorists’ hideout at the Qaycad area in …

The agreement would provide for monitoring mechanisms designed to prevent war in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armenia has presented Azerbaijan with a project for a full peace treaty to end the decades-long dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said. The two former Soviet republics have been locked in …

What happened in the 51st week of Russia’s war in Ukraine? Ukraine faced its toughest week so far this year on the eastern front, where its defenders lost more ground to Russian forces but committed enormous resources to holding Bakhmut, a coal-mining town that has acquired emblematic importance to both …

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have called for the full and effective implementation of the Iran nuclear deal by all sides and the removal of all US sanctions against Tehran in a verifiable manner. In a joint statement issued at the end of Raeisi’s three-day …

The US-led military bloc will use commercial satellites to improve intelligence gathering NATO has announced a new space project that aims to create a fleet of spy satellites. The initiative, which includes NATO applicants Sweden and Finland, involves not only national but commercial assets. The project, which is called ‘Alliance …

The earthquake in Syria and Turkey, funerals in Lviv, LeBron James becomes NBA’s all-time leading scorer and Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum – the most striking images this week

On the heels of the Chinese ‘spy balloon’ scare, the US is now being invaded by unidentified aerial craft – just in time for the new budget bill After the so-called “Chinese spy balloon” passed over the US last week and was shot down, the US claimed that multiple “UFO’s” …

Government’s failure to regulate mining has damaged the environment and human health, community members say. As a child, Leo Cerda would spend his mornings helping his family cultivate cassava, plantains and other fruits and vegetables in their chakra, a traditional garden in Kichwa communities. In the Ecuadorian village of Napo, …

Ford has announced that one in nine of its European employees will be cut, following the company’s aggressive electrification plan. Earlier this year, German union representatives first sounded the alarm about possible job cuts from Ford Europe, estimating roughly 2,500 employees would be cut on the continent, with the majority …

Price growth nevertheless remains close to a 40-year high, official data shows British inflation fell by more than expected last month, to 10.1% annually, which is the lowest reading since September, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported on Wednesday. Data showed that the decline in the consumer price index …

The James Webb telescope captured Sparkler in a state at a time when the Universe was only 1/3 of its present age, around four billion years old Every star in the universe is a hope for new life. The James Webb Space Telescope has just discovered a galaxy that’s just …

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin remains vague on proposed countermeasures in press conference Wednesday The People’s Republic of China threatened Wednesday to take action against U.S. agencies responsible for destroying and recovering a surveillance balloons. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin made the vague threat …

The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria from last week’s powerful earthquake has now risen above 40,000. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that 35,418 people were killed in the 7.8 magnitude quake that struck near the southeastern city of Kahramanmaras on February 6, making it the deadliest …

Expulsion of Chagos Islands’ Indigenous People an Ongoing Colonial Crime The forced displacement of the entire Chagossian people by the United Kingdom and United States governments and the UK’s racial persecution, and continued blocking of their return home, are crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report and …

The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) announced on Tuesday the arrest of leaders belonging to ISIS terrorist group in a non-neighboring country, according to a press statement issued by the INIS. The statement mentioned that a qualitative intelligence operation outside Iraq resulted in thwarting a terrorist operation and arresting a …