IBT Staff Reporter

US, China top diplomats hold 'constructive' first talks in months

The International Monetary Fund's board of executive directors met on Friday to discuss the $44 billion Argentine programme for the first time since Silvina Batakis' appointment as economy minister, two people with direct knowledge of the meeting said.

Impoverished Havana neighborhood reeling from protest convictions

Russia on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have extended cross-border aid to Syria by one year without Damascus's backing.

Jay Baker is not worried about a recession. He worries about whether his new workers will keep leaving before the end of their first shift.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday largely upheld a congressional subpoena seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump's accounting firm Mazars, but said some of the lawmakers' requests went too far.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas' liberal Reform Party announced on Friday it reached an agreement to form a majority coalition in the parliament, following a month of negotiations.

Authorities were called to the home of the Highland Park shooting suspect's parents numerous times between 2010 and 2014, according to police records released on Friday as funerals took place for three of those killed at a July 4 parade.

Uvalde's mayor is disputing a report about the May 24 school shooting that said a police officer awaiting a supervisor's permission to fire his rifle missed a chance to take out the shooter who went on to massacre 19 children and two teachers.

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Friday disputed a recent report about the May 24 school shooting that said a Uvalde police officer awaiting a supervisor's permission to fire his rifle missed a chance to take out the shooter who went on to massacre 19 children and two teachers.

Streets in Skopje, North Macedonia, were brought to a standstill on Friday because of protests against a proposed compromise deal with Bulgaria that would finally allow the Balkan country to begin long-awaited European Union membership talks.

Four employees from U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been referred for disciplinary review over their treatment of Haitian migrants who they sought to push back across the Rio Grande using horses last September, CBP officials said on Friday as the agency released a more than 500-page report on a widely filmed and photographed incident.

Copper output at Peru's huge Las Bambas mine has returned to normal levels after a two-month shutdown due to protests was ended last month, sources and power usage data show, but talks over a deal with community leaders have stalled, threatening more tensions.

Djokovic into eighth Wimbledon final and clash with Kyrgios

Thirteen people were dead and at least three dozen were missing after a cloudburst triggered flash floods near the Himalayan Hindu cave shrine of Amarnath in Indian Kashmir, an official said here on Friday.

A wildfire forced the closure of part of California's Yosemite National Park on Friday and threatened some of the largest and oldest giant sequoia trees in the world as the state faced another potentially devastating fire year.

A wildfire was burning through part of California's Yosemite National Park on Friday, threatening some of the largest and oldest giant sequoia trees in the world as the state faced another potentially devastating fire season.

Biden hits back on abortion, calls Supreme Court 'out of control'

As artillery fire booms nearby, Dmytro looks up and listens.

President Joe Biden said on Friday that he has not yet made a decision on whether to cut some U.S.

President Joe Biden was due to discuss tariffs on Chinese imports with advisers on Friday, but it was unclear when he would make a decision on whether to remove some duties to try to fight inflation, two people familiar with the deliberations said.

Voters in Tory heartlands divided on Johnson's fate

The Western supply of high-precision weapons is helping Ukraine slow down Russia's invasion, but the volumes of weapons are not enough and soldiers need time to adapt to using them, a top Ukrainian security official said on Friday.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Friday he planned to "significantly" increase childcare benefits at his companies, including Tesla Inc, and that the details likely would be announced next month.

British former finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime minister down.

Item A on next British PM's agenda: inflation crisis

A U.S. congressional committee has asked data brokers and personal health apps to explain how they handle users' reproductive health data amid concerns states will use the information to track patients seeking abortion where it is illegal.

Police in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo imposed a curfew after firing tear gas and using a water cannon on student protesters on Friday ahead of a planned weekend rally, as public discontent escalates over the worst economic crisis in seven decades.

Sri Lankan police fired tear gas and water cannon on students trying to march on the President's House in Colombo on Friday ahead of a planned weekend rally, as public discontent escalates over the worst economic crisis in seven decades.