The Info Zone NEW YORK, Sept 1 – U.S. financial markets came under renewed pressure Tuesday as investors sold government bonds and pushed Treasury yields higher, while rising oil prices added to concerns that inflation could remain stubbornly elevated. Stocks on Wall Street moved lower during the early part of the trading session, extending a cautious start to … Read more
NEW YORK, Sep 1 – A 32-year-old woman killed during a stabbing attack in Times Square has been identified as a Bank of America employee, as New York authorities released further details about the violent incident and the woman accused of carrying out the attack. The victim, Erin Piacenti, was one of two people stabbed … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Aug 31 – The United Arab Emirates said Monday that it intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters, adding fresh tension to an already fragile situation in the Gulf after the United States and Iran exchanged fire over the weekend for the first time in a month. The UAE Defense … Read more
WASHINGTON, Aug 30 – U.S. forces carried out their first confirmed military strikes against Iranian targets in about a month on Sunday, hitting rocket launchers near the Strait of Hormuz as tensions again rose around the strategically important waterway. The strikes ended a period of relative calm in direct U.S.-Iranian military operations after months of … Read more
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug 30 – Icelandic voters have rejected a proposal to reopen negotiations on joining the European Union, more than a decade after the country abandoned its previous attempt to become a full member of the bloc. The closely watched referendum produced a narrow but clear victory for opponents of renewed accession talks. According … Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug 30 – NASA has sent its newest major space observatory into space on an ambitious mission to investigate some of the universe’s most difficult mysteries, from planets orbiting distant stars to the unseen forces believed to control the expansion of the cosmos. The Roman Space Telescope lifted off Sunday aboard a … Read more
NICOSIA, Aug 30 – At least seven people have died and 23 remain missing after a passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people overturned off the coast of North Cyprus on Sunday, triggering a major search-and-rescue operation in the eastern Mediterranean. The privately operated ferry, identified by the Turkish Cypriot Interior Ministry as the FILOJET, was … Read more
NUWAKOT, Nepal, Aug 29 – Rescue teams on Saturday continued searching through mud, debris and damaged communities along the Nepal-China border, bringing survivors to safety while thousands of families waited for information about relatives still unaccounted for after devastating flash floods swept through the region. Four days after the disaster, the scale of the destruction … Read more
DUBAI, Aug 29 – Six months after the start of a devastating war with the United States and Israel, Iran’s leadership appears to be settling into a more confrontational posture, with powerful military commanders and hard-line clerics taking prominent positions across the country’s security establishment. The shift marks a significant departure from the early hopes … Read more
WASHINGTON, Aug 28 – President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States has reached a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that could give American interests access to 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, in a move his administration says could reshape Venezuela’s energy industry and eventually help ease fuel prices in the United States. … Read more