The 2025 Summer Davos forum will be held from June 24 to 26 in Tianjin and is expected to bring together around 1,800 participants from over 90 countries and regions. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images This report is from CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter, which brings you insights and analysis … Read more
ALBANY, N.Y. — Workers digging at Manhattan’s World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat built during the Revolutionary War that had been buried more than two centuries earlier. Now, over 600 pieces from the 50-foot vessel are being painstakingly put back together at the New York … Read more
RAF Lakenheath could host American nuclear weapons for the first time since 2008 amid emerging threats from Russia and terrorists that could aim to carry out an attack on the UK 09:01, 25 Jun 2025Updated 09:03, 25 Jun 2025 The UK will aim to buy F-35 bombers, similar to ones used by the US and … Read more
Customers check out vegetables and other groceries at a supermarket in Tokyo on June 20, 2025. Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Major central banks have hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic — but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. It has stayed put … Read more
The FBI is returning counterterrorism agents who were ordered to focus on immigration cases back to their old jobs because of concern about potential threats from Iran, four people with direct knowledge of the matter told NBC News. Don Holstead, the assistant director for counter terrorism, issued guidance over the weekend reassigning agents who work … Read more
Trains between London and Paris were delayed or cancelled altogether following the shocking incident – with the operator warning disruption was set to continue into this morning Source link
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters onboard Air Force One en route to the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 24, 2025. Brian Snyder | Reuters The ceasefire between Israel and Iran appears to be holding. In yesterday’s newsletter, we talked about how a blitzkrieg of missile-led diplomacy seemed to help de-escalate tensions. … Read more
Twenty people were injured when lightning struck a South Carolina beach Tuesday evening, officials said. Twelve children and six adults were taken to local hospitals, while two people left on their own after the strike at a beach near Lake Murray, Lexington County spokeswoman Vanessa Diaz said. The patients’ ages were not immediately clear; neither … Read more
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people, Palestinian witnesses and hospitals said Displaced Palestinians live in a tent camp in Gaza City(Image: Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Israeli forces killed dozens of people waiting … Read more
Iran on Monday launched what its armed forces called a “powerful and destructive missile strike on the United States’ Al-Udeid military base in Qatar.” Explosions were heard in the skies over Doha, the capital of Qatar. The Al-Udeid Air Base, whose 10,000 or so service members make it the largest American military installation in the … Read more