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  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 09:59 UTC

    US: Charges filed against intel-leaking soldier

    Teixeira remains in federal custody as he awaits his court proceedings

    US Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira has been charged Thursday on six federal counts on six counts of willful retention and transmission on social media sites of classified information relating to national defense to which he had access thanks to his security clearance as a cyber defense operations journeyman.

  • Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 09:32 UTC

    Blinken going to China amid growing tension between Washington and Beijing

    Blinken was about to travel to China in February but canceled his trip due to the spying balloon incident

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China this weekend amid growing tension between the two countries in a move to keep lines of communication open, the State Department said.

  • Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 06:50 UTC

    Fed makes a pause, leaves rates unchanged but anticipates two further moves before 2024

    We’ve covered a lot of ground and the full effects of our tightening have yet to be felt,” said Fed Chair Jerome Powell at a news conference

    The United States Federal Reserve this Wednesday, following a two-day meeting decided to keep the interest rate unchanged but the Federal Open Market Committee anticipated that a further two hikes of quarter percentage moves can be expected before the end of the year.

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    Lacalle welcomed at White House by President Biden

    The meeting was arranged once Biden learned that Lacalle was in the United States

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Tuesday met at the White House with his US colleague Joseph Biden, who “applauded” the South American leader's stance on the Ukraine crisis, his defense of fundamental principles in Venezuela, and for his commitment to regional economic integration.

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 06:52 UTC

    US inflation in twelve months to May slows to 4%; Fed begins two day meeting

    Measured year over year, inflation slowed to just 4% in May — the lowest 12-month figure in over two years and well below April's 4.9% annual rise

    Last month consumer prices in the United States rose 0.1% from April to May extending the past year's steady easing of inflation. The Tuesday announcement comes when the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting, still concerned that some measures of underlying price pressures remain high.

  • Monday, June 12th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

    Uruguayan President off to NYC to collect accolade

    The president cannot leave the country for more than 48 hours without the Senate's consent

    President Luis Lacalle Pou left Sunday for the United States to receive the Gold Insigne Award, given by the Americas Society Forum in New York.

  • Saturday, June 10th 2023 - 10:43 UTC

    Canada wildfires smoke reducing solar power and New England summer heat

    Operator ISO said smoke from wildfires in Canada has significantly lowered production from solar resources in New England

    Solar power generation in the northeast United States is tumbling by more than 50% as a result of the smoke from eastern Canada wildfires. On Thursday ISO New England, the operator of the grid, said solar power generation in New England was 56% below last week during times of peak demand.

  • Saturday, June 10th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Trump indicted in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case

    “The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax,” Trump wrote on Truth

    Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted of 37 criminal charges for the classified White House documents seized by the FBI at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida regarding nuclear secrets and information on the military defense capabilities of foreign countries for “withholding national security information” and “obstruction of justice,” it was reported in Washington DC.

  • Saturday, June 10th 2023 - 09:47 UTC

    Julian Assange loses latest bid to halt US extradition

    UK's High Court Judge, Jonathan Swift, turned down Assange's recent appeal saying it would simply “re-run” arguments that have previously been made.

    WikiLeaks' founder Australian born Julilan Assange has lost another attempt to block his extradition from UK to the US, according to a court order published on Friday. The 51-year-old is facing 18 treason charges in the US over the release of a series of confidential US military documents and diplomatic cables.

  • Friday, June 9th 2023 - 11:18 UTC

    Biden, Sunak sign “Atlantic Declaration” to address new technologies

    It is a new economic alliance for a new era, Sunak explained at a joint press conference

    US President Joseph Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Thursday renewed the economic alliance between the two countries by adapting it to the current world's transformations such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the climate crisis by signing the so-called Atlantic Declaration. Both leaders met at the White House to also discuss the war in Ukraine and the global economy.