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Meanwhile, Houston is also coping with a heat index in triple digits.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 07 (IPS) - Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in international trade and investment agreements – long abused by opportunists with means – are slowly being rejected by cautious governments.

Along with funding for Ukraine and Israel, as well as humanitarian assistance for people fleeing Gaza, this bill is a dramatic rewriting of the asylum system.

The UK formally suspends trade talks with Canada, the first time it has done so with a potential partner since Brexit.

On this "Face the Nation" broadcast, Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer and House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Mike Turner join Margaret Brennan.

The United States and China are the two global economic heavyweights.

Wall Street is edging lower to start a week that could bring more action to financial markets

President Biden will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the San Francisco Bay Area next week during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, the White House announced Friday.

San Francisco police say a man killed by police after intentionally crashing a car at the Chinese Consulate was armed with a knife, and a crosbow and arrows.

A U_S_ official says the government believes the driver who crashed into the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco the day before did so "with malign intent."

Shopping centers in East San Jose that originally served working-class immigrants have been transformed by the influx of transnational tech professionals.

GT congratulates the winners in its June Leisure Travel Issue

Britain on Friday said it had struck a deal to join an 11-country trans-Pacific trade pact which includes Japan and Australia as it looks to deepen ties in the region and build its global trade links after leaving the European Union.

Former President Trump rolled out his "America First" trade policy for the 2024 campaign that would reward domestic production while imposing tariffs on imported goods.

Lockheed Martin delivered the first of five C-130J-30 Super Hercules tactical airlifters to the Indonesian Air Force (IDAF) during Tuesday's ceremony commemorating a new era in Hercules operations for this longtime C-130 operator. The IDAF's new C-130J-30s offer increased cargo capacity, speed, range, power, performance and lower operating costs over its legacy C-130s to support

Why Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa took his grand plan to defeat cancer to India.

Billions of dollars worth of U.S. weapons are on the negotiating table between Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and Afghanistan's Taliban government, according to at least one insider....

In a desperate effort to save a seabird species in Hawaii from rising ocean waters,...

Threats to peace and stability were dominating the agenda at a summit of Pacific Rim economies, as leaders warned that war and tensions among the big powers threaten to unravel