Sources: CNN
The Ukrainian military reports that it used United States-made weapons to destroy several pontoon bridges constructed by Russia following its destruction of at least three bridges over the Seym river in Kursk Oblast. 2024-08-21
Multiple shootings in Lewiston, Maine, United States, leave at least 18 people dead and dozens more injured. The suspected gunman remains at large. 2023-10-25
Germany reclassifies the United States, Israel, Turkey, Kenya, Montenegro and Vietnam as "high risk" COVID-19 areas, triggering mandatory 10-day quarantines for unvaccinated travellers unless they can show a negative test after five days. The changes will be in effect from August 17 for Turkey and from August 15 for the rest of the countries. 2021-08-13
The Chinese Finance Ministry announces it will cut import duties on passenger vehicles from 25% to 15% starting on July 1, just days after China and the U.S. agreed to a ceasefire in their recent trade hostilities. 2018-05-22
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms that the Zika virus causes birth defects like microcephaly. 2016-04-13
In the United States, a Lancair IV plane crashes into a car stopped along a highway, 50 miles north of San Diego, California, killing car passenger Antoinette "Toni" Frances Isbelle, a member of the WFTDA's San Diego Starlettes roller derby team. Five others, including the pilot, are hospitalized. 2016-04-2
Wells Fargo of the United States becomes the world's largest bank by market capitalisation, replacing the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China amid an economic slowdown in China. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20130724-wells-fargo-deposes-chinas-icbc-worlds-biggest-bank (AFP via France 24)]date=July 2019 2013-07-24
Unemployment in the United States falls to 8.8 per cent on the back of 216,000 jobs being added. 2011-04-1
Daniel Patrick Boyd pleads guilty to terrorism charges in a trial in the US state of North Carolina. 2011-02-9
The European Parliament rejects an agreement that would have granted the United States Terrorist Finance Tracking Program unlimited access to the SWIFT bank transactions database. 2010-02-11