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Bank accounts held by US President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend. The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies soon after he was sworn into office a second time. Trump alleges that ...
Lyle Goldstein is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and director of Asia engagement at the Washington think tank Defence Priorities. How do you assess the progress of the People’s Liberation Army’s modernisation drive in the past 10 years and its significance in modern military history? How do you forecast the PLA’s position in 2027, ...
United Nations rights experts have urged Canada to take all feasible measures to protect the Sikh activist Moninder Singh, who has been repeatedly warned by the Canadian authorities of credible threats to his life. In a letter to the Canadian government dated June 3, and made public two months later, as per regular procedure, the five UN experts raised “concerning allegations of foreign intimidati...
Five United Nations rights experts have urged Canada to take all feasible measures to protect the Sikh activist Moninder Singh, who has been repeatedly warned by the Canadian authorities of credible threats to his life. In a letter to the Canadian government dated June 3, and made public two months later, as per regular procedure, the UN experts raised “concerning allegations of foreign intimidati...
日米の通貨当局は歴史的な円安を阻止するために先週、協調して円買い介入を実施し、3日、追加の協調介入も辞さないという姿勢を示しました。日本側は、円買い介入の原資となるドルを十分に調達するため今後、アメリカの通貨当局の仕組みを活用する予定だとしていて日米が連携して円安の流れを阻止できるかが焦点となります。
Celebrated writer, poet and novelist for young adults drew upon his sexuality and life on US southern border Benjamin Alire Sáenz, an award-winning fiction writer and poet who drew upon his sexuality and his life on the southern border, has died at age 71. He was the first Latino to win the PEN/Faulkner prize.Sáenz, who produced a story collection that won the PEN/Faulkner prize and a young adult ...
Ursula von der Leyen has called for action ahead of an urgent EU interior ministers meeting to discuss the issue.
Ursula von der Leyen has called for action ahead of an urgent EU interior ministers meeting to discuss the issue.
The Board of Peace official overseeing Gaza’s postwar transition has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
大型で非常に強い台風13号は小笠原諸島に近づいていて、気象庁は高波と暴風に厳重に警戒するとともに不要不急の外出を控えるよう呼びかけています。6日から週末にかけては沖縄・奄美で猛烈な風が吹くおそれがあり、最新の情報に注意が必要です。
Social media footage showed what appeared to be a drone crashing into a busy beach at Arkhipo-Osipovka, as tourists looked on from the shore and in the water.
Coalition of 25 states ask the US Court of International Trade to halt tariffs, calling them unlawful Trump imposes fresh tariffs on dozens of trading partnersA coalition of 25 US states sued the Trump administration on Monday over new tariffs pegged at 10% to 12.5% on goods from 60 trading partners, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes struck down by the supreme court in February.The...
India’s property market has gone from strength to strength. All the main sectors continue to perform extremely well. Last year, take-up of shopping centre and warehouse space reached record highs. In the first half of this year, office leasing volumes rose to their second-highest level for the period on record, while new flat sales in the eight largest cities delivered one of the strongest half-ye...
Andy Burnham will also delay release of thousands of prisoners across England and Wales a month, until OctoberRapists, child sexual abusers and groomers will be excluded from early release plans to ease critical prison overcrowding in a major intervention by Andy Burnham.The prime minister said on Tuesday that he will delay the planned early release of thousands of prisoners across England and Wal...
4日午前5時32分ごろ、熊本県で震度4の揺れを観測する地震がありました。この地震による津波の心配はありません。
BBC Verify matched wildfire videos with images of the same areas before the fires struck to assess the damage in Washington state.
BBC Verify has matched videos posted online in the aftermath with images of the same streets before the fires to assess the damage in Washington state.
US President Donald Trump on Monday said Iran was facing its “last chance” to reach an agreement with Washington to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the five-month-long war. “This is a last chance for them to sign a good document,” Trump said at the Oval Office in the White House. “I want to give them every last chance before decapitation.” He also claimed that negotiations with Tehran are “goi...
Briana Whatley sues Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback for unpaid scholarship from company he foundedA far-right Republican candidate in Florida’s governor’s race has been accused of stiffing a high school debate champion over the better part of $11,000 in scholarship money she won from a company he founded.Student Briana Whatley landed the awards as regional and national champion of I...
Migrants rushed to receive water and beverages in Ceuta, Spain, where many have spent days on a beach awaiting asylum.
４日午前６時４分ごろ地震がありました。この地震による津波の心配はありません。震源地は熊本県天草・芦北地方で震源の深さは１０キロ、地震の規模を示すマグニチュードは３．９と推定されます。各市町村の震度は以下のとおりです。▼震度３が、熊本市南区、熊本県八代市、熊本県宇城市、熊本県氷川町。
Republican congressman was investigated for untoward and inappropriate advances toward two female staffersThe US House of Representatives ethics committee on Monday recommended that Chuck Edwards, a Republican congressman, face censure after determining he “fostered a hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment” by giving gifts and lavishing attention on two young female staffers.The...
Israel says it has doubts about the Palestinian group laying down its weapons.
Trump says he's giving Iran a "last chance" at diplomacy; Blanche one step closer to confirmation as attorney general.
Voters in the US state of Michigan will cast ballots in a Democratic Senate primary that could reshape the party.
ウクライナのゼレンスキー大統領は3日、対外情報局の長官に、ロシアとの和平案をめぐる高官協議のメンバーの1人、ウメロフ氏を任命しました。欧米との間で無人機の技術などをめぐる協力を加速させ、ロシアへの圧力を強化したいねらいがあると見られます。
今回の地震は4日で発生から1週間となります。政府は猛暑の中、避難生活の長期化も見込まれるとして、引き続きプッシュ型で飲料水や簡易型のクーラーなどの物資を被災地に届けるとともに、4日に今年度予算の予備費の使用を決定し、必要な予算を確保することにしています。
食料品の消費税率を来年4月から2年間、1％に引き下げるなどとした政府の基本方針案について、自民党の合同会議は対応を小野寺税制調査会長に一任しました。政府は5日にも閣議で決定したい考えで、減税の具体的な制度設計を急ぐ方針です。
先月、熊本県で最大震度7の揺れを観測した地震から4日で1週間です。震度1以上の揺れを観測した地震は400回近くにのぼり、地震活動は活発な状態が続いています。専門家は、周辺にはまだずれ動いていない活断層も残っているため、揺れなどへの備えを進めるよう呼びかけています。
