New York — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday amid rising international criticism of Israel’s offensive in Gaza and a wave of diplomatic moves that officials and analysts say have left Israel increasingly isolated on the world stage. The speech comes after days of intense … Read more
Washington — A bipartisan group of senior economic officials — including the three most recent former Federal Reserve chairs — filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court this week warning that President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook could damage the Fed’s independence and risk a surge in inflation. The … Read more
Washington — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a dramatic set of new import duties that would, if implemented, impose heavy tariffs on a range of goods — including branded pharmaceuticals, heavy trucks and kitchen cabinets — a move the White House says is intended to protect U.S. industry and national security but that economists … Read more
New York — President Donald Trump’s blunt address to the United Nations General Assembly this week — in which he repeatedly chided the world body and took credit for ending foreign conflicts — has renewed a familiar, uncomfortable question: what role does the UN actually play in preventing and ending wars when powerful member states … Read more
Washington- President Donald Trump said Thursday he believes the United States is “close to getting some kind of deal done” to address the nearly two-year conflict in Gaza, following meetings with a group of regional leaders and a bilateral Oval Office session with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Trump’s comments came as U.S. officials and … Read more
Washington — Two senior U.S. senators have asked major American corporations — including Apple, Amazon and several other big tech and finance employers — to explain why they continue to hire large numbers of H-1B visa workers even as the same companies have been cutting jobs at home. The letters, from Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck … Read more
Rapid policy shifts in Washington and a tightening of the pipeline for new high-skill foreign hires are quietly increasing the market value of people already holding H-1B visas — and for some, that could look a lot like a goldmine. Over the past two weeks the U.S. administration has rolled out a package of measures … Read more
New York, September 25, 2025 — India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday delivered what diplomats described as a carefully worded rebuke to rhetoric in Washington, saying nations “cannot escape reality” when it comes to labour markets and urging a pragmatic embrace of international workforce mobility. His comments, made on the sidelines of the … Read more
Air travel usually calls to mind long, featureless strips of concrete. But around the world pilots and passengers encounter runways that read more like travel postcards — a beach that doubles as a landing strip, golf holes hemmed in by taxiways, cliff-edge minis and alpine slopes that demand special training. Here are some of the … Read more
Australia said on Sunday the United States will be able to use a new nuclear-submarine maintenance facility at the Henderson shipyard near Perth as part of the trilateral AUKUS defence partnership, and pledged A$12 billion to upgrade the site over the next two decades. Defence Minister Richard Marles described the Henderson precinct as the future … Read more