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US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he had no plans to fire the Federal Reserve chief, in apparently conciliatory remarks after berating him and triggering market turmoil.

The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that operations and jobs would be slashed as US funding cuts had left the UN agency with a budget hole of several hundred million dollars.

Tesla reported a 71 percent drop in first-quarter profits Tuesday in results that lagged analyst estimates as Elon Musk's automaker warned of a hit to demand due to "changing political sentiment."

The trade standoff between Washington and Beijing is not sustainable, US Treasury Scott Bessent said Tuesday, predicting the tit-for-tat tariff war would de-escalate soon.

Named after the pivotal year when the 16th Amendment, 17th Amendment, and the Federal Reserve Act were enacted, creating the modern income tax system, shifting Senatorial elections, and founding the IRS, this nonprofit organization is Kendal's bold response to what he calls 'the systematic erosion of liberty.'

The Las Vegas-based firm, which began as McShane LLC, was built to bring microtargeting (the kind perfected in national political campaigns) into all levels of advertising, whether for candidates, corporations, or cause-based organizations.

European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde said Tuesday that she hoped US President Donald Trump would not oust the country's central bank boss Jerome Powell prematurely.

The IMF said Tuesday it now believed China's economy will only grow by four percent this year, well below Beijing's official target as it fights a mounting trade war with the United States that threatens to hammer the global economy.

Sean O'Neill, the United States' senior bureau official for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, is in Cambodia this week, co-chairing the 37th ASEAN-US Dialogue.

The firm already has plants in the United States, and said the move would help expand capacity at sites in Kentucky, Indiana, New Jersey, Oregon and California.

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a statement that people are frustrated with being enrolled in unwanted subscriptions that are nearly impossible to cancel.

Pushed out of Pakistan where she was born, Nazmine Khan's first experience of her country, Afghanistan, was in a sweltering tent at a border camp.

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan.

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis heads up a stellar cast of athletes kicking off the 16th Diamond League season in Xiamen on Saturday amid a changing landscape that has seen Michael Johnson launch his Grand Slam track series.

Paris has everything -- stunning architecture and arguably the best food and fashion in the world.

The United States on Monday announced its intention to impose tariffs of up to 3,521 percent on solar panels from Southeast Asia, a move aimed at countering alleged Chinese subsidies and dumping in the sector.

The world's biggest auto show opens Wednesday in Shanghai, with foreign carmakers raring to show they can compete against the ultra-competitive Chinese firms that dominate the sector's new electric frontier.

Bullion hit another record Tuesday while the dollar steadied and equities mostly fell as Donald Trump's latest salvo against Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell added fuel to fears about the central bank's independence.

The humble pinata has become one of the latest targets to take a whacking in US President Donald Trump's trade war.

X rival Bluesky on Monday said it was adding blue checks to accounts that have been verified to confirm users are who they claim to be.

Many Ukrainians felt let down by a 30-hour Easter truce announced by Russia, even if some welcomed a brief lull in fighting after more than three years of war.

President Donald Trump and his White House predecessor Joe Biden led the way in paying respects from the United States to Pope Francis, who died Monday at 88.

US government attorneys urged a federal judge Monday to make Google spin off its Chrome browser, arguing artificial intelligence is poised to ramp up the tech giant's online search dominance.

Chinese battery giant CATL launched on Monday a new sodium-ion battery it says will restructure the electric car industry, and a new system to combine two battery technologies into one car.

As an at-times unwitting star on social media, Pope Francis knew how to exploit the internet to preach the gospel, broadening the Church's appeal while modernising its communications.

The World Economic Forum said on Monday that its founder Klaus Schwab has stepped down from the board, turning a page in the history of the organisation that hosts the annual meeting of wealthy, famous and influential global elites at the luxury Swiss ski resort of Davos.

This decision comes after new U.S. customs rules lowered the threshold for formal entry processing from $2,500 to $800, making the clearance process longer and more complicated.

A group of suspects nicknamed the "grandpa robbers" goes on trial at the end of April, charged with stealing jewellery worth millions from US reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris in 2016.

When the Dalai Lama turns 90 in July, the Buddhist monk, who for many exiled Tibetans personifies dreams of a free homeland, will ask if they want a successor.