US to give Ukraine $500 million in additional military aid: Pentagon June 27 2023 at 07:14AM

White House condemns 'harassment' of WSJ reporter by trolls June 27 2023 at 06:20AM

The Biden White House has condemned the purported online harassment and intimidation of Wall Street Journal reporter Sabrina Siddiqui whose question to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a press conference last week on the alleged discrimination against religious minorities in India has triggered fury among his supporters, who support with his contention that such reports are motivated and overblown.

Pakistan hopes for IMF bailout decision in a day or two June 27 2023 at 05:45AM

Pakistan hopes a bailout decision from the International Monetary Fund will come in a day or two, its prime minister said on Tuesday, after a telephone conversation with the chief of the global lender.Islamabad has been waiting for a deal after taking policy and fiscal tightening decisions required by the IMF for the disbursal of $1.1 billion under the lender's ninth review of a $6.5-billion Extended Fund Facility agreed in 2019.

Canadian wildfire emissions hit record high as smoke reaches Europe June 27 2023 at 04:39AM

Wildfires burning through large swathes of eastern and western Canada have released a record 160 million tonnes of carbon, the EU's Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service said on Tuesday. This year's wildfire season is the worst on record in Canada, with some 76,000 square kilometres (29,000 square miles) burning across eastern and western Canada. That's greater than the combined area burned in 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2022, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.

In an audio recording Donald Trump discusses a 'highly confidential' document with an interviewer June 27 2023 at 02:34AM

An audio recording from a meeting in which former President Donald Trump discusses a “highly confidential” document with an interviewer appears to undermine his later claim that he didn't have such documents, only magazine and newspaper clippings. The recording, from a July 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort for people working on the memoir of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information.

UN report finds Russia tortured executed civilians in Ukraine; Kyiv also abused detainees June 27 2023 at 01:36AM

WHO warns Covid 'has not gone away' June 27 2023 at 12:16AM