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The Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union reached a tentative agreement Wednesday after more than a year of negotiations. The contract between the two expired July 1, 2022 and 22,000 dockworkers have been working in good faith for nearly a year as the two sides hammered out a deal.

Australia’s Parliament has passed legislation to prevent Russia from building its embassy near Parliament House on security grounds

The House has rejected an effort to censure California Rep. Adam Schiff, turning aside a Republican attempt to fine the Democrat over his comments about former President Donald Trump and investigations into his ties to Russia

TOKYO Japan's top government spokesperson said on Thursday that volatile moves in the currency markets were undesirable and

KAWASAKI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 14, 2023--

BEIJING Property investment in China fell at a faster pace in January-May, dropping 7.2% from the same period

A former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue, his wife and three other people have been indicted in the theft and sale of human body parts

China’s economic recovery weakened in May as growth in industrial output and retail sales slowed, putting pressure on

Russian forces fired cruise missiles at the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa and shelled the eastern Donetsk region early Wednesday, killing at least six people, regional Ukrainian officials said. Russian forces have recently stepped up aerial strikes in their nearly 16-month war, a Ukrainian military spokesman said. It comes as Ukraine claims to have made advances in the face of “extremely fierce” fighting during its counteroffensive against Vladimir Putin’s forces, and has suggested Russia is losing a “staggering” 900 troops a day. As the lower house of Russia’s parliament gave its initial backing to plans to enable Moscow to enlist suspected or convicted criminals to bolster its army in Ukraine, Kyiv’s deputy defence minister claimed advances of several hundred metres near Bakhmut and Zaporizhzhia. The claimed advances – which contrast with Russian claims to have repelled attacks – preface a critical Nato meeting this week where Kyiv will urge the West to greenlight delivery of fighter jets, with senior Kyiv official Yuriy Sak telling The Independent that if “had we had F-16s, by now the situation would have been different”. Read More Belarus receives nuclear bombs ‘three times size of Hiroshima bomb’ from Russia Russia steps up aerial strikes on Ukraine – killing at least 6 Russia losing 900 soldiers a day during counteroffensive, Ukrainian officials claim

BEIJING China's industrial output rose 3.5% in May from a year earlier, official data showed on Thursday, slightly

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE Asian stocks braked around two-month highs on Thursday, while the dollar nursed modest losses,

St. Paul, Minnesota, has the worst air quality in the United States as smoke from massive Canadian wildfires drifts across the state