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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — When President Donald Trump tried to cancel five massive offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast, it wasn’t just environmentalists who cried foul. Nine Republicans in the U.S. House sent a letter to administration officials demanding an explanation. “America’s energy policy should be grounded in facts, fiscal responsibility, and the national interest — not ideology or politics,″ they wrote. One of the lawmakers is […]

SEOUL, April 25 (Reuters) – The speaker of Russia’s parliament, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, arrived in North Korea on Saturday to attend an event to commemorate Pyongyang’s deployment of troops to help Moscow in the Ukraine conflict, Tass news agency reported. • Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia’s Duma, was welcomed by Jo Yong-won, Russian news agency Tass said. Jo is North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s close […]

April 25 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated on Saturday that he was focused on efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a day after the head of TotalEnergies warned of global energy shortages if the Iran war continues for months. Macron, speaking at a news conference in Athens alongside Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said panic caused by geopolitical uncertainty can in itself lead to shortages. “Our goal […]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Gunmen attacked several locations in Mali’s capital and other cities early Saturday in a possible coordinated assault, residents and authorities said. Mali’s army said in a statement that “unidentified armed terrorist groups targeted certain locations and barracks in the capital.” It added that soldiers were “currently engaged in eliminating the attackers.” Mali has been plagued by insurgencies fought by affiliates of al-Qaida and the Islamic State […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made it clear he expects his choice for Federal Reserve chair to quickly cut interest rates once he takes office. Yet Americans shouldn’t pencil in lower borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, or business loans just yet. The odds of Kevin Warsh becoming chair by the time Jerome Powell’s term ends May 15 shot higher Friday when U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine […]

By Luc Cohen April 25 – The United States has agreed to modify its sanctions on Venezuela to allow the South American country’s government to pay Nicolás Maduro’s defense lawyer, backing off a restriction that had threatened to derail the drug trafficking case against the ousted Venezuelan president, a court filing showed on Friday.  Maduro, 63, and his wife Cilia Flores, 69, were captured from their home in Caracas by U.S. […]

April 25 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian drone hit a multi-storey apartment building in Russia’s fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, the regional governor said on Saturday, in the first attack on the city since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. There were no fatalities but some people suffered minor injuries and one woman was hospitalised, the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Denis Pasler, wrote on the Telegram app. “Residents of the affected building […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drone and missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed at least three people and wounded 21, local authorities said Saturday. The bodies of the three were found in the ruins of a house destroyed in the overnight attacks, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Ganzha said, adding that people might still be trapped in the rubble. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that there were […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s foreign ministry says Afghans who helped America’s war effort and have been stuck in Qatar in the hope of reaching the United States, can safely return to Afghanistan. The statement Saturday by foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi comes after reports emerged that the Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send 1,100 Afghans who assisted the U.S. during its war in Afghanistan and relatives […]