WORLD

Davos, Switzerland, | Xinhua | FIFA President Gianni Infantino has highlighted the importance of football to the world economy. In an interview with Xinhua at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023, Infantino said he believed that it was very important to exchange ideas with leaders and business representatives from various …

Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | American actor and producer Alec Baldwin will be charged for the 2021 fatal shooting of a crew member on the set of his new movie “Rust,” authorities said Thursday. The 64-year-old Hollywood veteran on Oct. 21, 2021 discharged a prop gun on the set of …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The United States hit its debt limit on Thursday, prompting the Treasury Department to take “extraordinary measures” to continue financing the federal government. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced in a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that her department would put the temporary brakes on new …

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua | Israel’s Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara has requested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire his key ally Aryeh Deri after the Supreme Court disqualified Deri from serving as a cabinet minister for his criminal conviction. The Israeli top court ruled on Wednesday that Aryeh Deri, the influential leader …

Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | A U.S. investigational HIV vaccine regimen was safe but did not provide protection against HIV acquisition, according to a release of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) on Wednesday. The trial, called HPX3002/HVTN 706 or “Mosaico,” began in 2019 and involved 3,900 volunteers ages …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | One month after Argentina won the Qatar World Cup, FIFA announced early figures of the tournament, showing around five billion people have engaged with the World Cup. “On social media, according to Nielsen, there have been 93.6 million posts across all platforms, with a 262 billion …

United Nations | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for investing in people and prioritizing education in his message for the International Day of Education, to be observed on Jan. 24. “Investment is critical to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4,” and education is “the bedrock of societies, economies …

Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | The Turkish foreign minister on Tuesday slammed as “absurd” a Swedish prosecutor’s decision not to investigate a protest in Stockholm in which Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s puppet was hung. “The decision by the (Swedish) prosecutor’s office not to probe the incident is extremely absurd, and we …

Warsaw, Poland | Xinhua | The European Parliament (EP) should stop criticizing Poland for alleged rule-of-law problems when it has been unable to stop corruption in its own ranks, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday. According to the Polish Press Agency (PAP), Duda made the comment at the World Economic …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the country’s oil production increased by 2 percent over the past year despite Western sanctions, according to the Kremlin. “I would especially like to talk about the oil and gas sector. Despite the previously mentioned sanctions pressure, oil production …