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The United States announces sanctions on three senior Malian officials, including the country's Defence Minister Sadio Camara, for allegedly "helping to facilitate" the presence of the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group in the country.
2023-07-24

U.S. fashion retailer Gap announces that it will be closing all of its 81 stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company will continue to provide an online store for British and Irish customers.
2021-06-30

The United States's GDP contracts 3.5% in 2020, its first annual contraction since 2009 following the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the country's worst economic performance since 1946.
2021-01-28

OPEC+ holds an emergency meeting to try to agree on output cuts due to decreased demand for oil due to the coronavirus pandemic. Russia says it has "no plans to discuss oil markets with the leadership of Saudi Arabia or the U.S. on Thursday".
2020-04-9

The U.S. Senate votes down a coronavirus relief stimulus bill.
2020-03-22

Unemployment in the United States could reach 20 percent if sufficient action is not taken in responding to the coronavirus pandemic, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warns.
2020-03-18

United States F-22 Raptors intercept four Russian Tu-95 bombers and two Su-35 fighter jets off the coast of Alaska on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a statement from the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
2019-05-22

A senior Taliban commander, Mullah Abdul Manan Akhund, is killed in a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan.
2018-12-2

Liberian warlord Mohammed "Jungle Jabbah" Jabbateh is sentenced to 30 years in prison in the United States for immigration offences. Jabbateh lied to authorities about his role in the Liberian Civil War.
2018-04-20

A man who took four firefighters hostage in Suwanee, Georgia, United States, is killed in a gun battle with police.
2013-04-10