News/World (Page 170)

World·New TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a new U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with ByteDance, its China-based parent company. TikTok has 170 million American users ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, issued a statement Thursday that it ‘doesn’t haveContinue Reading

World Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, his office said on Thursday, as a transitional council took power with the aim of returning stability to a country where gang violence has caused chaos and misery. Ariel Henry left Haiti in February to seek international help for police in their battles withContinue Reading

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Thursday questioned a lawyer for Donald Trump about the former president’s claim of immunity from prosecution for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, posing hypotheticals about what happens if a president accepts a bribe, sells nuclear secrets or orders a political assassination. LowerContinue Reading

World Venice became the world’s first city to introduce a payment system for tourists on Thursday in an effort to thin the crowds that throng its canals, but the fee drew protests from some residents saying they didn’t want to live in a theme park. Demonstrators say fee won’t stopContinue Reading

World Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, with war-torn Gaza as the territory with the largest number of people facing famine, according to the Global Report on Food Crises released Wednesday. 24 million more people face highest level of hunger than last year,Continue Reading

World The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will hear arguments over a question that could affect whether former president Donald Trump can be prosecuted over his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden. Arguments on what’s an ‘official act,’ as well as a Nixon civil case,Continue Reading

World In recent days, subsistence farmers and activists from the Michoacán town of Villa Madero organized teams to go into the mountains and rip out illegal water pumps and breach unlicensed irrigation holding ponds. Mexico has received roughly half of its usual rainfall over the past year Armando Solis ·Continue Reading

World Drones sent by Ukraine struck two Rosneft-owned oil depots in Russia’s Smolensk region in an overnight attack on Wednesday, as the two-year war has featured a wave of attack on energy facilities this spring. No casualties were reported, but some residents were evacuated from parts of nearby city LipetskContinue Reading

Why did the U.S. TikTok ban bill get packaged with foreign aid?Will TikTok be banned in the U.S.? Washington correspondent Alex Panetta explains how a potential TikTok ban has been signed into law and what happens next. TikTok now risks becoming a high-profile casualty of the cold-war sequel developing betweenContinue Reading