The Republican-controlled US Congress looked set to move ahead this week to keep the government funded and avert a partial shutdown beginning, as Washington is rocked by the president's rapid moves to slash federal agencies.
US immigration agents arrested a Palestinian graduate student who has played a prominent role in pro-Palestinian protests at New York's Columbia University as part of Trump's promised crackdown on some anti-Israel activists.
More than half a million people are facing travel disruption at German airports where a 24-hour strike has led to thousands of flight cancellations in a dispute about workers' pay.
Syria's leader vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country's new Islamist rulers and said he would hold to account anyone who overstepped their authority.
Business & Markets
Prices of cooking oil could be buoyed up for years by stagnating production and a biodiesel push in top producer Indonesia that are making traditionally cheap palm oil costlier, eliminating an advantage that also curbed prices of rival oils.
Farmers put plans and investments on hold under Trump USDA spending freeze
Ed Morgan packs his signature "Pigda Lambda" ground pork and lamb mix into tins, West Virginia, February 16, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Douglas
Farmers and food organizations across the country are cutting staff, halting investments and missing key funding amid a USDA freeze on a broad swath of grants, more than two dozen farmers and agricultural support groups in seven states told Reuters.
All this comes as Trump has imposed new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China, sparking trade wars with the biggest buyers of US farm products.
Milla, a five-year-old female ocelot, after undergoing an in vitro fertilization procedure at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi, December 9, 2024. REUTERS/Evan Garcia
In the race to save the endangered ocelot, scientists are trekking the United States, pursuing fertility treatments and striving to kickstart a new generation of the wild cat.
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