Macy's (M) on Monday delayed its Q3 earnings release as it said it is conducting an internal investigation into an employee hiding hundred of millions of dollars of expenses.
A hard-right critic of NATO who has praised Russia is set to face a centre-right opposition leader in a presidential election run-off in Romania that could undermine its pro-Western stance after a shock outcome in the first-round vote. With 99.9% of votes counted after voting on Sunday, independent hard-right politician Calin Georgescu, 62, had 22.95% of votes. Centre-right contender Elena Lasconi, leader of the opposition Save Romania Union, lay second with 19.2%.
Georgia's new parliament met for the first time Monday, with the chamber facing serious questions over its legitimacy amid a boycott by opposition parties and the president declaring it unconstitutional.But the opposition boycott has put the legislature at risk of becoming a one-party body -- a potentially significant blow to its political legitimacy.
Authorities in Egypt say a luxury yacht that set off with 45 people from the Red Sea port of Ghalib for a week-long diving trip sank, with 28 rescued and 17 still missing.
The International Criminal Court wants to arrest Israel's prime minister and former defense minister, along with a Hamas leader who's likely dead.
Talks to agree the world's first treaty to curb plastic pollution cannot fail and must tackle both production and consumption, the UN's environment chief told AFP on Monday.Without addressing any one country, Andersen said the UN resolution establishing the talks was quite clear and delegates must "address sustainable production and consumption".
The head of the Phichit province monastery told a local TV station that the use of corpses was part of a "meditation technique" he developed.
A prominent Cambodian environmentalist and five others were released on Monday a day after being detained while investigating illegal logging in a national park. Ouch Leng, who was awarded a 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize, was taken into custody on Sunday along with the other activists who have documented an increase in illegal deforestation in the Veun Sai-Siem Pang National Park, located near an economic land concession in northeastern Stung Treng province. Authorities have launched a broader crackdown on environmental activists in recent months.
French prosecutors on Monday demanded a maximum 20-year jail term for the man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife, in a trial that has shaken France."Twenty years is a lot because it is 20 years of a life," prosecutor Laure Chabaud said.
Hezbollah allegedly fires a barrage of some 250 rockets at northern Israel after dozens are killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
Roman Catholic faithful will be able to view St. Peter’s tomb remotely as part of the Vatican’s technological outreach with its far-flung flock during the upcoming Holy Year. Pope Francis will inaugurate a webcam on Dec. 2 to be installed beneath the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica. Another webcam will be placed on the basilica’s Holy Door for the 2025 Jubilee, during which indulgences for the forgiveness of sins are granted to pilgrims who travel to Rome and enter through it.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient and that he deserved a "death sentence".Israel's campaign in Gaza over the past 13 months "is not a victory but a war crime", added the supreme leader, who has the final say in all matters of state.
Trump's choice of Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary is buoying spirits at the start of a holiday-shortened week.
An assisted migration of beech trees in need of protection from climate change is bearing its first fruits in France after 13 years, with saplings now gracing the former World War I battlefield of Verdun."There's no single solution to climate change -- assisted migration is just one of them," Musch said.
A final round of talks on a treaty to curb plastic pollution opened on Monday, with deep differences between nations emerging almost immediately.The deep differences have dogged four previous rounds of talks over the last two years, resulting in a lengthy and contradictory draft treaty running over 70 pages.
The Congressional Black Caucus will have 62 members in the 119th Congress, contributing to a record 67 Black representatives.
Three suspects held in the United Arab Emirates over the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi are from Uzbekistan, authorities in the Gulf state announced Monday, saying they were working to determine their motives.Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE's ambassador to the United States, said that "Kogan's murder was more than a crime in the UAE -- it was a crime against the UAE." "We reject extremism and fanaticism of every kind," he posted on X. - Low profile - The oil-rich Gulf state, whose population is m
Acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh has won the coveted Dutch Erasmus Prize for his writings on climate change and its impact on humanity, especially on the Indian subcontinent.The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, which awards the prize, noted that Ghosh had described how the effects of climate change have been "inextricably linked" to human destiny on the Indian subcontinent.
The wife of Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye has said she does not expect him to get a fair trial after he was detained in neighbouring Kenya, brought home and accused of possessing weapons and other offences in a military court. Winnie Byanyima said last week her husband was seized as he prepared to attend a book launch in Nairobi on Nov. 16 - in what both rights group Amnesty International and a senior official at Kenya's foreign ministry have described as an abduction. Uganda's government spokesperson, Chris Baryomunsi, said last week his country does not carry out abductions, and that arrests abroad were done in collaboration with host countries, but did not comment on the specific case.
Indonesia said a $100 million investment proposal from Apple to build an accessory and component plant was not enough for the country to allow the tech giant to sell its latest iPhone model, its industry ministry said on Monday. Indonesia in November banned sales of Apple's iPhone 16 after it failed to meet requirements that smartphones sold domestically should comprise at least 40% locally-made parts. Indonesia has also banned the sale of Alphabet's Google Pixel phones over a similar lack of use of local components.
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