NEW DELHI (AP) – The U.S. and India are actively engaged on a bilateral trade agreement to deepen economic and strategic partnership, the U.S. ambassador-designate to New Delhi said Monday. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, India has emerged as the second biggest buyer of Russian crude after China.
NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street edged back from its records following a mixed start to the latest profit reporting season for big U.S. companies. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% Tuesday after drifting earlier between small gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.1%.
NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks of credit card companies are dropping Monday after President Donald Trump threatened moves that could eat into their profits. The rest of Wall Street, meanwhile, is showing only modest signs of concern after tensions ramped to a much higher degree between the White House and the Federal Reserve.
NEW YORK (AP) – Up until this week, Wall Street has generally benefited from the Trump administration’s policies and has been supportive of the president. When President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law in July, it also cut the budget of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at times the banking industry’s nemesis, by nearly half.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar began a second round of voting Sunday in its first general election since the military takeover five years ago. Voting expanded to additional townships including some areas affected by the civil war between the military government and its armed opponents. Critics say the polls organized by the military government are neither free nor fair.
BEIJING (AP) – As Canadian leader Mark Carney arrives in China on Wednesday, his hosts see an opportunity to peel the longtime U.S. ally away from their rival, at least a bit. China’s state media is calling on the Canadian government to set a foreign policy path independent of the United States – what it calls “strategic autonomy.”
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Myanmar will face accusations Monday it is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority at the top court of the United Nations, as long-awaited hearings are set to begin.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.
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