Turkey will not be rushed on Ukraine's bid to join NATO, Turkey's President Recep Tayip Erdoğan told NBC News.
The National Hurricane Center projects that the storm will make landfall as a major hurricane along the Florida's Gulf Coast on Thursday.
Pfizer and Moderna's legal battle over their rival COVID-19 vaccines will continue after London's High Court on Wednesday gave Pfizer permission to take the case to the Court of Appeal. Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech sued Moderna in London in September 2022, seeking to revoke two patents held by Moderna, which hit back days later alleging its own patents had been infringed.
The Israeli military's head of the northern command said Israel had entered a new phase of its campaign and must be prepared for "manoeuvring and action," the military said in a statement on Wednesday. It did not specify whether the remarks were a reference to a possible ground incursion into southern Lebanon. "We have entered a new phase of the campaign," said Major General Ori Gordin during a visit on Tuesday to a brigade exercise on Israel's northern border, according to the military statement.
Thailand’s landmark marriage equality bill has been endorsed by the monarchy, making it the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize same-sex marriage.
When their church no longer felt safe, deacon Francisco Alvicio and his congregation made a plan. “If I’m pursued at the church, I still have my Bible,” the 63-year-old Nicaraguan said. Like him, several evangelical pastors, Catholic priests and human rights organizations have denounced the surveillance, harassment and the imprisonment of Nicaraguan faith leaders in recent years.
U.S. shoppers are expected to spend a record $18.5 billion using third-party buy now, pay later services for holiday purchases in the last quarter of the year, according to projections by data firm Adobe Analytics released on Wednesday. With many Americans recently carrying more debt, spending on buy now, pay later services is set to increase by 11.4% over the holiday season a year ago, Adobe said. Buy now, pay later services let shoppers expand their purchasing power by paying for merchandise in monthly installments spread out over as many as 36 months; however, the most common payments are four-installment plans.
The lower house of Russia’s parliament on Wednesday gave overwhelming approval to the first reading of a proposed law to prohibit the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The measure, which would need to pass two more readings in the Duma before being sent to the upper house and then to President Vladimir Putin, follows a series of other laws and rulings that clamp down on sexual minorities. Putin and other top officials in recent years have increasingly called for observing so-called “traditional values” as a counter to Western liberalism characterized as degenerate.
A Democratic group is launching a legal fund to help secretaries of state in key states defend against an anticipated post-election deluge of lawsuits.
The House is poised to pass a bill to avoid a government shutdown after removing a Donald Trump-backed proposal requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Hezbollah and Lebanon have become the latest flashpoint in the widening war in Israel and the Middle East. What to know about Hezbollah and this newest front.
Right now, 2.6 billion people around the world are not online. That creates real world problems that harm public health, social equality and economic development, writes Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg.
The highest landfall probability is somewhere along the eastern part of the Florida Panhandle late Thursday evening, forecasters said.
The European Union's judicial cooperation agency, Eurojust, launched a new network on Wednesday to strengthen and further coordinate the continent's fight against organized crime. The European Judicial Organised Crime Network's first priority will be tackling drug-related crime. Drug trafficking cases at Eurojust have doubled since 2020.
Tropical Storm Helene continues to strengthen and is forecast to make landfall on the Big Bend Coast of Florida late Thursday night.
Secret Service agents failed to take charge of decision-making for security at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where former President Donald Trump was shot in July, a bipartisan Senate committee revealed in a new report Wednesday, leading to key lapses in preparation and communication that day.
Russia's parliament Wednesday voted to back a bill banning the adoption of Russian children in countries that allow gender reassignment, the latest in a series of ultra-conservative social measures.These latest proposals are a new version of a bill put forward in 2022 that aimed to ban the adoption of Russian children by parents from "unfriendly countries" -- a term Moscow uses to refer to countries that have sanctioned Russia for its Ukraine offensive.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are using dueling speeches this week to position themselves as the candidate of manufacturing, but both are promising to help in nearly opposite ways.
A barrage of Israeli strikes since Monday has killed at least 558 people in Lebanon, and raised fears of a devastating all-out war.
Hong Kong and Shanghai extended gains Wednesday as China announced another interest rate cut the day after unveiling a series of measures to boost the country's ailing economy.Hong Kong and Shanghai both rallied around one percent Wednesday, while Taipei also advanced but worries that a lot more work was needed to help the Chinese economy bounce back weighed on sentiment elsewhere.