At least 14 people were killed in a strong earthquake that shook a coastal region of Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, causing structural damage to multiple homes, schools and medical centres. The quake, which the US Geological Survey (USGS) measured at magnitude 6.8, struck at a depth of 66.
Former US President Donald Trump said he expects to be arrested on Tuesday in a case brought by the Manhattan district attorney's office, and called on his supporters to protest, according to a post on Truth Social on Saturday. A spokesperson for the district attorney's office declined to comment,
US President Joe Biden said on Friday the banking crisis has calmed down after the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank. Biden has sought to reassure investors and depositors that the global banking system is safe as financial stocks have lost billions of dollars in valu
Alphabet Inc-owned YouTube said on Tuesday it lifted restrictions on former US President Donald Trump's channel, following a more than two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on Jan 6, 2021. Meta Platforms Inc had reinstated Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts earlier this year,
Multi-billion dollar lifelines for troubled US and European banks shored up investor confidence on Friday and bolstered sentiment in battered stocks, although concerns now centre on whether a global financial crisis has been fully averted. Large US banks injected $30 billion in deposits into First
Safe haven currencies like the US dollar and the yen were in demand on Thursday on renewed fears of a global banking crisis, after contagion from the implosion of US-based Silicon Valley Bank spread across the Atlantic to Swiss bank Credit Suisse. In the latest blow to investors' confidence in the
A winter storm dumped heavy, wet snow in parts of the Northeast on Tuesday, causing tens of thousands of power outages, widespread school closings, dangerous driving conditions and a plane to slide off a taxiway. The storm's path included parts of New England, upstate New York, northeastern Pennsy
Mexico's president said on Monday his country is safer than the United States, pushing back against US critics of his security record following a deadly kidnapping this month near the border that claimed the lives of two Americans, reports Reuters. The March 3 attack on four Americans in the Mexic
US State regulators closed New York-based Signature Bank (SBNY.O) on Sunday, the third largest failure in US banking history, two days after authorities shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB.O) in a collapse that stranded billions in deposits. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) took co
Former US Vice President Mike Pence offered his most forceful rebuke to date of his one-time boss Donald Trump on Saturday, saying that history will hold him accountable for his role in the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Pence was in the Capitol when thousands of Trump supporters bre
At least six people have died in Peru over the last few days as a powerful cyclone unleashed torrential rains, battering hundreds of homes and causing major disruptions in northern areas of the Latin American country, authorities said. The governm
More than a quarter-century after college freshman Kristin Smart vanished in what became one of California's most notorious unsolved crimes, the man ultimately convicted of killing her was sentenced on Friday to serve 25 years to life in prison. The prison term imposed on Smart's
Bookseller Zulema Diaz fled her native Peru after being kidnapped, beaten and robbed, hoping to find safety in the United States. Instead, she said she experienced homelessness and sexual harassment as she worked off-the-books on a hospital cleaning crew. So when Diaz, 46, heard New York Cit
