As Trump talks up trade war with China, fears rise for rare earths supply Beijing dominates the production of critical elements used in the production of electronics, vehicles and weapons. The MP Materials rare earth open-pit mine in Mountain Pass, California, the United States, on January 30, 2020 [Steve Marcus/Reuters] By Erin HalePublished On 9 Jan…
Barcelona defeat Athletic without Olmo to reach Spanish Super Cup final Barcelona reach the final of the Spanish Super Cup with a 2-0 win against Athletic Bilbao in Saudi Arabia. Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal celebrates after scoring during the Spanish Super Cup semifinal match [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo] Published On 8 Jan 20258 Jan 2025 Young starlets…
Industry groups sue over Biden ban on medical debt in credit reports Consumer watchdog said new rule would lead to rising credit scores and an additional 22,000 low-cost mortgages annually. Republicans in Congress have demanded that outgoing President Joe Biden’s financial regulators stop issuing new rules as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office [File: Jacquelyn Martin/AP…
Russian strike kills 13 in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia The attack came hours after Ukraine’s military struck a depot deep inside Russia. Firefighters work at the site of an administrative building damaged by Russian air and missile strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on January 8, 2025 [Reuters] Published On 8 Jan 20258 Jan…
News ‘We must stand together’: European leaders warn Trump over Greenland threat Trump’s refusal to rule out using military force, economic coercion to seize island causes disquiet, calls for unity. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised US President-elect Trump’s comments on Greenland [File: Markus Schreiber/The Associated Press] Published On 8 Jan 20258 Jan 2025 European…
Inside Story How is Sudan’s conflict worsening the humanitarian crisis? Half of Sudan’s population faces acute food shortages. Famine is now present in five areas of Sudan – in what a senior United Nations official says is “a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions”. Millions are displaced and the United States says genocide is taking place….
US Fed officials expected slower rate cuts in 2025, say December minutes Minutes of the December meeting show a division on decision to cut rates and the 0.25 percent cut was a ‘close call’. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the decision to cut rate in December was a ‘close call’ [File: Andrew Harnik/AP…
US Justice Department to release only part of Trump investigation report It’s unlikely that the rest of the report, on the mishandling of classified documents, will be released under Trump. An image released by the US Justice Department shows classified documents at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2023 [US Justice Department/AP] Published On 8 Jan…
Israeli attacks kill 46 in Gaza as ceasefire talks continue Death toll rises as Gaza healthcare further collapses, deadly raids continue in occupied West Bank. People remove the bodies of casualties from the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli strike on the Bureij camp in central Gaza [Eyad Baba/AFP] By Al JazeeraPublished On 8…
Four separate wildfires have now been reported in the Los Angeles area.