MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin’s spy chief warned the West on Wednesday that it risked disastrous consequences if the United States and its European allies stoke a direct military confrontation with Russia over Ukraine. Moscow has criticised a decision by Washington to let Ukraine use U.S. missiles to strike …

There was a merry triumphalism to the announcement last week that The Onion, a satirical outlet based in Chicago, won an auction to acquire the conspiracy site Infowars out of bankruptcy. The deal seemed done: Infowars went offline; memes of an apoplectic Alex Jones, its founder, sped across social media; …

KAMPALA (Reuters) – A prominent Ugandan opposition politician was kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya over the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail in Kampala, his wife said on Wednesday. Kizza Besigye has run against Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in four elections and …

LOS ANGELES, Nov 16 — YouTuber, content creator, entrepreneur, self-proclaimed face of boxing: Jake Paul has become a master of re-invention during his meteoric rise to fame and fortune. The 27-year-old from Cleveland, who defeated veteran heavyweight icon Mike Tyson in an eight-round made-for-Netflix bout yesterday, has parlayed his fame …

CHIGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) – Before global leaders take the problem of plastic pollution into their hands this month, Japanese manicurist Naomi Arimoto is putting it into her fingernails. At the beach near her home south of Tokyo, Arimoto carefully sifts sand for tiny bits of plastic that she can mould …

Washington: US industrial production declined in October as the impact from a Boeing Co machinists’ strike and a pair of hurricanes reverberated through manufacturing for a second month. The 0.3% decline in output at factories, mines and utilities followed a revised 0.5% decrease a month earlier, US Federal Reserve (Fed) …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration plans to target federal regulations championed by President Joe Biden that aim to make automobiles more fuel-efficient and incentivize a shift toward electric vehicles, according to two sources in contact with Trump’s transition team. The move appears aimed at satisfying a Trump …

THE first sign of improper effluent discharge was a strong stench of diesel that emerged when a manhole to the public sewerage system was opened at the Alam Jaya industrial area in Puncak Alam, Selangor. At the bottom of the manhole at Jalan Tiaj 2/1 was thick black sludge, which …

DUBAI (Reuters) – Sudan’s armed forces chief on Monday criticised factional strife within its ex-ruling party, saying a move to reinstate an ally of deposed autocrat Omar al-Bashir endangered national unity as the army seeks to win a war against paramilitary forces. The National Congress Party has deep ties in …