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Passengers in fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes are 'crime victims', US Judge rules

Passengers in fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes are 'crime victims', US Judge rules

-- 2022-10-22 16:27:36

A US judge in Texas ruled on Friday that people killed in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes are legally considered "crime victims," a designation that will determine what remedies should be imposed. In Dece...

Trump ex-adviser Bannon sentenced to four months for contempt of Congress

Trump ex-adviser Bannon sentenced to four months for contempt of Congress

-- 2022-10-21 22:14:44

Steve Bannon, a one-time adviser to former President Donald Trump, was sentenced by a judge on Friday to four months in prison for refusing to cooperate with lawmakers investigating last year's US Cap...

Trump deposed in writer's defamation suit over rape claim

Trump deposed in writer's defamation suit over rape claim

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-20 10:12:50

Former US President Donald Trump was deposed on Wednesday in a defamation lawsuit brought in New York by writer E. Jean Carroll after he denied her allegations that he had raped her, lawyers for...

Biden to announce emergency oil sales to prevent price spikes

Biden to announce emergency oil sales to prevent price spikes

-- 2022-10-19 20:17:32

US President Joe Biden will announce a plan on Wednesday to sell off the last portion of his release from the nation's emergency oil reserve by year's end and detail a strategy to refill the stockpile...

Why Venezuela's refugee exodus to the US has been accelerating

Why Venezuela's refugee exodus to the US has been accelerating

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-19 10:44:03

US and Mexican authorities recently announced a new policy that would expel Venezuelans entering the US land border back to Mexico, but allow up to 24,000 people from the country to apply for hu...

Brazil's Bolsonaro caught off guard by campaign's ugly closing chapter

Brazil's Bolsonaro caught off guard by campaign's ugly closing chapter

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-19 10:32:38

Brazil's unexpectedly close presidential race has taken an ugly turn in the final weeks ahead of an Oct 30 runoff vote, even by the bruising standards of the past year, with insinuations of cann...

Eleven shot dead in Mexico bar attack in gang-plagued state

Eleven shot dead in Mexico bar attack in gang-plagued state

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-16 10:46:15

Unidentified gunmen opened fire in a bar in the central Mexican city of Irapuato on Saturday evening, shooting dead six women and five men, local authorities said, the second mass shooting in th...

White House claims Saudi Arabia pushed other OPEC+ nations into oil cut

White House claims Saudi Arabia pushed other OPEC+ nations into oil cut

-- 2022-10-14 18:55:38

Saudi Arabia pushed other OPEC+ nations into an output cut last week, the White House claimed on Thursday, part of an escalating war of words between the two countries. "More than one" OPEC member di...

Five shot dead including police officer in North Carolina capital

Five shot dead including police officer in North Carolina capital

-- 2022-10-14 10:12:14

Five people including an off-duty police officer were shot dead in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh on Thursday, prompting a massive manhunt that shut down part of city and resulted in the arrest...

US House Jan 6 committee votes to subpoena Trump

US House Jan 6 committee votes to subpoena Trump

-- 2022-10-14 10:07:28

The US House of Representatives committee probing the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by Donald Trump supporters voted on Thursday to subpoena the former president, a move that could lead to cri...

Biden says Saudi Arabia will face 'consequences' for OPEC+ oil output cut

Biden says Saudi Arabia will face 'consequences' for OPEC+ oil output cut

-- 2022-10-12 16:59:21

US President Joe Biden pledged on Tuesday ‘there will be consequences’ for US relations with Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ announced last week that it would cut its oil production target over U...

28 dead as Julia drenches Central America with rainfall

28 dead as Julia drenches Central America with rainfall

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-11 11:01:09

Former Hurricane Julia has dissipated, but is still drenching Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains Monday after it reemerged in the Pacific following a pounding of Nicaragua. At least 28 p...

Venezuela floods kill at least 25 after heavy rains

Venezuela floods kill at least 25 after heavy rains

REUTERS 2022-10-10 11:45:21

At least 25 people died and 52 were missing after five small rivers in central Venezuela flooded due to heavy rains, Citizen Security Vice President Remigio Ceballos said Sunday evening in a telev...

‘OPEC+ decision to cut oil output widens rift between White House, Saudi royals’

‘OPEC+ decision to cut oil output widens rift between White House, Saudi royals’

-- 2022-10-08 17:38:15

The OPEC+ organization's decision this week to cut oil production despite stiff US opposition has further strained already tense relations between US President Joe Biden's White House and Saudi Arabia...

US adds 31 Chinese entities to export control list

US adds 31 Chinese entities to export control list

-- 2022-10-07 19:40:34

The United States on Friday added 31 Chinese companies, including memory chip maker YMTC Yangtze Memory Technologies Co, to a list of entities that US officials could not inspect to verify they can be...

Biden says Putin's nuclear threat brings world closer to highest risk since 1962

Biden says Putin's nuclear threat brings world closer to highest risk since 1962

-- 2022-10-07 17:58:44

The risk of a nuclear "Armageddon" is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, US President Joe Biden has said. Mr Biden said Russia's President Vladimir Putin was "not joking" when...

Biden to mark IBM investment with Democrats in tough races

Biden to mark IBM investment with Democrats in tough races

-- 2022-10-06 15:46:22

President Joe Biden is ready to celebrate a new $20 billion investment by IBM in New York's Hudson River Valley with two House Democrats running in competitive races in next month's critical midterm e...

Haiti's PM calls for foreign help amid gang blockade

Haiti's PM calls for foreign help amid gang blockade

-- 2022-10-06 14:46:26

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Wednesday called on the international community to help the Caribbean nation, as a gang blockade of a key fuel terminal has created widespread shortages of goods...

মেক্মিকোতে টাউন হলে বন্দুকধারীদের গুলিতে মেয়রসহ নিহত ১৮

মেক্মিকোতে টাউন হলে বন্দুকধারীদের গুলিতে মেয়রসহ নিহত ১৮

-- 2022-10-06 14:16:41

মেক্সিকোর পশ্চিমাঞ্চলের ছোট একটি শহরে বন্দুকধারীদের গুলিতে সেখানকার মেয়র ও আরও অন্তত ১৭ জন নিহত হয়েছে বলে জানিয়েছেন কর্মকর্তারা। পুলিশ বলছে, সান মিগুয়েল টোটোলাপান শহরের টাউন হলে বুধবার স্থানীয় সময় দু...

California family kidnapped on Monday found dead, Sheriff says

California family kidnapped on Monday found dead, Sheriff says

-- 2022-10-06 13:54:58

Four members of a California family, including an 8-month-old girl, were found dead in a rural area on Wednesday after they were abducted in the city of Merced on Monday, authorities said, repor...

Kidnapped California family, including baby, found dead

Kidnapped California family, including baby, found dead

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-06 10:44:36

A baby girl, her parents and uncle who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their central California business two days ago were found dead Wednesday, the sheriff of Merced County said. “Our worst fe...

US national debt surpasses $31 trillion

US national debt surpasses $31 trillion

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-05 09:47:50

The nation’s gross national debt has surpassed $31 trillion, according to a US Treasury report released Tuesday that logs America’s daily finances. Edging closer to the statutory ceiling...

Right-wing wins in Brazil's Congress show staying power of 'Bolsonarismo'

Right-wing wins in Brazil's Congress show staying power of 'Bolsonarismo'

-- 2022-10-04 12:11:11

A strong election night for allies of President Jair Bolsonaro have given his party the most seats in both chambers of Congress, highlighting the enduring strength of his conservative movement even if...

Ecuador prison clash leaves at least 15 dead, 20 injured

Ecuador prison clash leaves at least 15 dead, 20 injured

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-04 10:31:51

A clash between inmates armed with guns and knives inside the Latacunga prison in central Ecuador on Monday left at least 15 people dead and 20 injured, authorities said. Officials attributed the fig...

Trump sues CNN claiming defamation, seeks $475 million in punitive damages

Trump sues CNN claiming defamation, seeks $475 million in punitive damages

REUTERS 2022-10-04 10:11:29

Former US president Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation on Monday, seeking $475 million in punitive damages and claiming the network had carried out a "campaign of libel and slander" against him. Tr...

Cholera kills at least seven in Haiti

Cholera kills at least seven in Haiti

-- 2022-10-03 12:57:42

Haiti on Sunday said at least seven people have died of cholera in a surprise return of the disease that comes as the nation is paralyzed by a gang blockade that has triggered shortages of fuel and cl...

After Hurricane Ian's deadly wrath, Florida, Carolinas begin recovery

After Hurricane Ian's deadly wrath, Florida, Carolinas begin recovery

-- 2022-10-02 15:32:59

Florida and the Carolinas, staggered by one of the fiercest storms in US history, faced a massive recovery on Saturday as remnants of Hurricane Ian threatened further flooding along the Eastern Seaboa...

Tear gas fired, scores wounded in Baghdad protest marking 2019 unrest

Tear gas fired, scores wounded in Baghdad protest marking 2019 unrest

-- 2022-10-02 12:04:57

Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades on Saturday to disperse stone-throwing protesters in clashes that wounded scores off Baghdad's Tahrir Square, where hundreds marked the ann...

Leftist front-runner close to outright win in Brazil election

Leftist front-runner close to outright win in Brazil election

-- 2022-10-01 21:50:20

Brazilian leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintains a solid lead going into Sunday's presidential race against far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and is within sight of an outright...

Florida, Carolinas count huge cost of Hurricane Ian 

Florida, Carolinas count huge cost of Hurricane Ian 

-- 2022-10-01 17:33:35

Florida, North and South Carolina were on Saturday trying to recover from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Ian, after one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US mainland caused tens of bil...