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Powerful Earthquake Shakes Mexico on Fateful Anniversary, 2 Confirmed Dead
MEXICO CITY — A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck western Mexico on Monday, Sept. 19 on the anniversary of two devastating temblors, killing at least two people, damaging buildings, knocking out power and sending residents of...
Bitcoin Falls Below $19,000 as Cryptos Creak Under Rate Hike Risk
Cryptocurrencies fell to fresh lows on Monday on regulatory concerns and as investors globally turned shy on risky assets with interest rate rises looming around the world. Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by market value, fell...
Hot Core: Canada May Need a Recession to Cool Down Inflation
The underlying pressures driving inflation in Canada are likely to peak in the fourth quarter of this year, economists told Reuters, though most see signs fast rising prices are becoming entrenched and warn a recession...
US Traffic Deaths in First Half of 2022 Hit 16-year High
U.S. traffic deaths rose 0.5 percent in the first half of 2022 to 20,175, the highest number killed in the period since 2006, according to an early estimate released by U.S. regulators. Traffic deaths have...
Take-Two Confirms GTA VI Leak, Says Game Development Unaffected
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc on Monday confirmed that a hacker had leaked the early footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, the next instalment of the best-selling video game. Dozens of development videos of the game...
Europe Races to Prepare for Energy Crunch This Winter
Germany was pressing on Monday to secure liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracts with Gulf producers and other European states and outlined measures to conserve energy, with Russian flows running at severely reduced levels as winter...
George Floyd Denied Posthumous Pardon for 2004 Texas Drug Conviction
A Texas state agency has decided against recommending that the governor grant a posthumous pardon to George Floyd for a 2004 drug conviction, in a reversal of a decision made last year. The Texas Board...
Uber Investigating ‘Cybersecurity Incident’ After Report of Breach
Uber Technologies Inc said it was investigating a cybersecurity incident after a report of a network breach that forced the company to shut several internal communications and engineering systems. On Friday, Uber said it had...
Sri Lanka’s Crisis Pushes War-shattered Tamils to the Brink
Under a blazing sun, a 44-year-old Tamil labourer tended his rented patch of peanut field in Sri Lanka, striking his spade against the earth in a daily struggle to beat inflation that has put many...
US Envoy Has ‘No Plans’ To Meet with Russian Diplomats at UN General Assembly
There are no plans for U.S. officials to meet with their Russian counterparts during the annual gathering of world leaders in New York next week, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on...
Zelenskiy Pays Surprise Visit to Recaptured Town of Izium in Northeast Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy paid a surprise visit on Wednesday, Sept. 14 to the newly recaptured town of Izium, a key logistics hub in the northeastern Kharkiv region, and thanked his army for their success in...
Bank Holdups Snowball in Lebanon as Depositors Demand Their Own Money
Five Lebanese banks were held up by depositors seeking access to their own money frozen in the banking system on Friday, in a spiralling spate of holdups this week spurred by frustration over a financial...