Category : World News

Shutting down the Michigan plant at the center of the nation’s baby formula crisis was a “prudent thing to do,” a White House economic adviser said Sunday — as international shipments of formula that arrived in Indiana were set to go to areas with an “acute” need. National Economic Council Director Brian Deese was pressed […]Read More

One of the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” could be in some mighty big trouble with the law. Actor Jason Lawrence Geiger, 47, who played the Red Ranger in the cheesy 1990s kids’ show and its related films, was busted for his alleged part in a scheme to fraudulently obtain federal COVID-19 relief money. Geiger, whose […]Read More

Three cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine will not be commissioned as military officers but will graduate with bachelor’s degrees, the academy said Saturday. Academy spokesman Dean Miller said that a fourth cadet who had refused the vaccine until about a week ago, decided to be vaccinated and will […]Read More

U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol said after meeting Saturday that they will consider expanded military exercises to deter the nuclear threat from North Korea at a time when there’s little hope of real diplomacy on the matter. Yoon affirmed in remarks at a news conference that their shared goal […]Read More

Protest walkout at Apec talks in Bangkok Five countries including US and Japan leave as Russian delegate begins speaking at trade ministers’ meeting Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit, centre, poses for photos with delegates at the APEC BCG Symposium 2022 in Bangkok on Friday. (Photo: Apec) Representatives of five economies including the […]Read More

President Joe Biden is devoting his Saturday to cementing ties with South Korea and its new leader Yoon Suk Yeol as the two sides consult on how best to check the nuclear threat from North Korea at a time when there’s little hope of real diplomacy on the matter. The division of the Korean peninsula […]Read More

Tourists walk along Khaosan Road in Bangkok on Friday. Some were seen wearing face masks properly. (Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill) The country registered 37 more Covid-19 fatalities and 5,377 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Saturday morning. This compared with the 41 coronavirus-related fatalities and 6,463 new cases reported […]Read More

EL PASO, Texas — Hours before a Louisiana federal judge ordered the Biden administration to keep the Title 42 health authority in place, El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego met with officials from the Department of Homeland Security to discuss what he described as a looming “crisis.” “Right now, Title 42 would be difficult for […]Read More

Bars call for end to midnight closing Nightlife venues welcome chance to reopen, but want to sell alcohol much later into the night Tourists hang out at bars on Soi Nana, Sukhumvit Soi 4, in Bangkok on Nov 4, 2021. The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration decided yesterday to allow bars, pubs and karaoke clubs […]Read More

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, left, talks at the Better Thailand Open Dialogue forum at the Siam Paragon shopping mall on Friday. (Photo: Anutin Charnvirakul’s Facebook account) The Ministry of Public Health has given a loose time frame for when it will decide upon dropping the Thailand Pass for foreigners. To make its decision, the […]Read More