WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday oversaw the White House swearing-in of the new Federal Reserve chair and said he would like Kevin Warsh’s help in stimulating the economy even as he tried to emphasize that the nation’s central bank would remain independent. Trump spent months criticizing Warsh’s predecessor, Jerome Powell, for being …
BEIJING (AP) — A gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province killed at least 90 people, state media said on Saturday, in the country’s deadliest mining accident in recent years. Official news agency Xinhua said the accident at Changzhi city’s Liushenyu coal mine happened on Friday evening. Around 247 workers were …
By Ciro De Luca and Joshua McElwee ACERRA, Italy, May 23 (Reuters) – Pope Leo on Saturday called out companies who seek “dizzying” profits at the cost of environmental pollution, on a visit to an area in Italy known as a hotbed for illegal dumping of toxic waste. On a visit to Acerra, about 220 …
A gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province killed at least 90 people, state media said on Saturday, in the country’s deadliest mining accident in recent years. Official news agency Xinhua said the accident at Changzhi city’s Liushenyu coal mine happened on Friday evening. Around 247 workers were on duty at …
SHANGHAI, May 23 (Reuters) – A gas explosion at Liushenyu coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province late on Friday killed at least 90 people, making it China’s worst coal mine disaster in over 16 years. Here is a timeline of major coal mining disasters in China: • A mine accident at the Yiluo Mine …
ISTANBUL, May 23 (Reuters) – The Turkish intelligence agency MIT captured 10 suspected Islamic State militants in Syria and brought them back to Turkey, the Anadolu news agency on Saturday cited security sources as saying. • The sources said the suspects caught in the operation, carried out in coordination with Syrian intelligence, were linked to …
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – The White House forced U.S. intelligence official Tulsi Gabbard to resign from her post, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. Gabbard posted her resignation letter on X on Friday. (Reporting by Jonathan Landay; Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by David Ljunggren) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
COPENHAGEN, May 22 (Reuters) – Denmark’s acting Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen’s attempt to form a centre-right government broke down on Friday, he said, prolonging a post-election stalemate in the Nordic country’s parliament. A March election resulted in a fragmented assembly of 12 parties, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen resigning after her Social Democrats remained …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard resigned as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence on Friday, saying she needed to leave office as her husband battles cancer. She is the fourth Cabinet member to depart during Trump’s second term, all of them women. In her resignation letter, which she posted on social media, Gabbard said …
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Tulsi Gabbard’s deputy, Aaron Lukas, would become the acting director of national intelligence after she leaves the administration on June 30. “Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her,” Trump said in a Truth Social post in which he …