Siemens: 'We have resumed sales and support to Chinese customers' Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture. [PhotoAgencies] Three key chip companies said on Thursday that the US had lifted export restrictions on chip design software for China and...
A lawsuit was filed against President Donald Trump's administration claiming masked agents have been targeting "individuals with brown skin" in Southern California, arresting them without probable cause and keeping them in "dungeon-like" conditions in efforts to deport them. The claim, filed in the...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Build AI Day in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Adek Berry | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft said Wednesday that it will lay off about 9,000 employees. The move will affect less than 4% of its global workforce across different teams, geographies...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a meeting in Ilam, Iran, June 12, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday signed into law a bill passed by parliament last month to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. The move came amid ...
Indian pilgrims cross Nathu La Pass, which is more than 4,000 meters above sea level between Dromo county of China's Xizang autonomous region and India's northeastern state of Sikkim, on June 20. The pass is a major passageway for Indian pilgrims to Xizang. TENZIN NYIDAXINHUA A group of 39 Indian...
Injured people are seen near a beachfront cafe destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on June 30, 2025. Photo by Rizek AbdeljawadXinhua GAZA, July 2 Xinhua -- Hamas said on Wednesday that it is conducting consultations to discuss Gaza ceasefire proposals put forward by mediators. The Pa...
Six people accused of witchcraft were killed, burned alive, stoned or beaten by a militia in Burundi, a local official told AFP on Wednesday. The official and witnesses, who all asked for anonymity, said the incident happened on Monday after accusations made by members of the ruling party's powerfu...
A Florida Native American leader spoke out against a new migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz," raising environmental and safety concerns for local tribal communities. President Trump, visiting the site Tuesday, said the facility will hold "some of the...
An Israeli military convoy manoeuvres near the Israel-Gaza border, as seen from Israel, July 1, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] HOUSTON - US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize a 60-day ceasefire to end the conflict in Gaza, and also urged Hama...
Smoke and flames rise as aerial and ground extinguishing works continue for wildfires in Seferihisar district of Izmir, Turkiye, on Monday. MEHMET EMIN MENGUARSLANGETTY IMAGES More than 50,000 people have been evacuated from the path of wildfires in Turkiye as extreme heat continued to cause blaz...
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi holds a press conference in Istanbul, Türkiye, June 22, 2025. XinhuaLiu Lei TEHRAN, July 1 Xinhua -- Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has said the country still needs more time to decide about the resumption of negotiations with the United...
SAO PAULO, July 1 Xinhua -- A training aircraft crashed in southeast Brazil's Sao Paulo state on Tuesday, killing both people on board, the fire department reported. The small aircraft fell into an uninhabited area of the city of Sao Jose do Rio Preto after taking off from a local airport. Brazil'...
President Trump once again targeted former close aide Elon Musk early Tuesday, attacking the amount of government subsidies Musk is receiving after the tech billionaire renewed criticism of the president's flagship spending bill. "Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far," ...
WASHINGTON, June 30 Xinhua -- A marathon vote was underway Monday over U.S. President Donald Trump's massive One Big Beautiful Bill, which highlights bitter partisan divisions in Washington. Trump said the bill will deliver the largest tax cut for working- and middle-class Americans in history and ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters He may have stopped openly feuding with President Donald Trump, but Elon Musk isn’t backing off his bid to kill Trump’s signature...
A worker at a Missouri cereal plant died after getting trapped in an industrial oven that was shut off, police said. Police in Perryville, Missouri, about 80 miles southeast of St. Louis, were called Thursday to a Gilster-Mary Lee cereal plant around 3 p.m. "for a male stuck in an industrial oven t...