ProChain Capital President David D. Tawil joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss what a Russian-Ukraine invasion would mean for the market, the possibility of a polar vortex, oil prices, and the outlook for Fed policy.
Taiwan is exploring buying arms worth billions of dollars from the United States, sources briefed on the matter said, hoping to win support from the new Trump administration as China continues to apply military pressure on the island. Three sources familiar with the situation, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the situation, told Reuters that Taiwan is in talks with Washington. The package is meant to demonstrate to the United States that Taiwan is committed to its defense, one of the sources said.
A prominent opposition figure facing military trial in Uganda will be charged before a civilian court instead, an official said Monday, as authorities faced mounting pressure to free him. Kizza Besigye, a four-time presidential candidate in the East African country, went missing in November in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, and appeared days later in a cage before a military tribunal in Uganda's capital, Kampala. Uganda’s Supreme Court ruled last month that civilians can’t be court-martialed, questioning the competence of untrained military officers to dispense justice.
The 27-year-old was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder for Saturday night's shooting.
At least 49 cases of measles, mostly in children, have been confirmed in Gaines County, Texas. Health officials suspect 200 to 300 people may be infected.
European leaders were holding an emergency meeting in Paris on Monday to discuss their role in Ukraine's future after the United States announced it would sit down with Russia to seek an end to the three-year war. Here is what some have said ahead of the meeting on the issue of sending peacekeeping troops into Ukraine. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he is ready to send British troops to Ukraine as part of any postwar peacekeeping force.
New Zealand’s new tourism campaign - with its slogan “Everyone must go!” - has prompted ridicule from opposition politicians and some members of the public who compared it to a clearance sale advert.
Rwanda-backed rebels tightened their grip on Bukavu on Monday, a day after seizing the second major city in eastern Congo whose residents appeared resigned to their fate under the new rulers. On Sunday, M23 rebels captured the city of 1.3 million people after it was abandoned by Congolese forces. Bukavu lies 63 miles (101 kilometers) south of Goma, which was captured by the rebels in late January.
European defense stocks rose, buoyed by the prospect of higher military budgets, while global markets were largely subdued with the U.S. closed to mark Presidents Day.
European leaders met on Monday for emergency talks in Paris called by French President Emmanuel Macron to agree a coordinated response to a shock policy shift on the war in Ukraine by the new US administration of Donald Trump.Macron held telephone talks with Trump just before the summit, the French presidency said.
Ken Martin, the newly installed chair of the Democratic National Committee, is kicking off his first major trip as party leader in an effort for the organization to “get out of D.C.”
Muhsin Hendricks, considered the world's first openly gay imam who was gunned down last weekend in South Africa, stood as a man who valued authenticity -- both in action and words. On returning to South Africa, he married a woman from Cape Town in 1991.
Here’s why involuntary airline seat downgrades happen along with some advice from an expert on how to respond and get what you’re owed.
The head of the World Health Organization insisted on Monday it was "now or never" to strike a landmark global accord on tackling future pandemics, after the United States withdrew from negotiations.Spark Street Advisors, a health sector consultancy, said the world had changed since the last negotiations in December, with the global multilateral system "under siege".
Holding pictures of their loved ones, families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza marked 500 days of captivity on Monday, urging authorities to secure their release.Relatives of some hostages gathered in parliament, holding up pictures of those still held in Gaza -- 70 out of 251 people abducted during the 2023 attack.
Marie-Claire Martineau couldn’t stop thinking about Elaine Comerford, so she traveled to New York to reunite with Elaine, kickstarting a decades-spanning romance.
The Greek government’s chief seismologist says the frequency of earthquakes affecting Santorini and nearby islands has eased in recent days, but that the outlook for continued tremors in the coming weeks remains uncertain. A state of emergency has been declared on Santorini and the nearby islands of Ios, Amorgos, and Anafi after a swarm of undersea earthquakes this month – sometimes felt every few minutes – prompted thousands of residents and workers to move to the Greek mainland.
New photos show the damage a US Navy aircraft carrier sustained in a collision with a merchant ship last week.
Conservative activist Ed Martin, who echoed Donald Trump's baseless claims of a stolen 2020 election and defended Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioters, was nominated by the president on Monday to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington on a permanent basis. Martin had been serving as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on an interim basis since just after Trump, a Republican, was sworn in for his second term on Jan. 20. “Since Inauguration Day, Ed has been doing a great job as Interim U.S. Attorney, fighting tirelessly to restore Law and Order, and make our Nation’s Capital Safe and Beautiful Again,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform.
Efforts to shut down online scam centers in Myanmar appeared to gain momentum on Monday as a top Chinese security official visited both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border ahead of expected large-scale repatriations of workers in the illicit industry. The visit by Liu Zhongyi, China’s vice minister of public security and commissioner of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, was part of a stepped-up effort by the three countries to address the online scam problem, Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai told reporters. Areas of Myanmar bordering Thailand have been serving as havens for criminal syndicates employing an estimated hundreds of thousands of people from Southeast Asia and elsewhere who help carry out online scams including false romantic ploys, bogus investment pitches and illegal gambling schemes.
Italian prosecutors are examining whether online giant Amazon.com evaded 1.2 billion euros in value-added tax (VAT) it should have paid on behalf of certain third-party sellers, sources told AFP Monday.The Italian law came ahead of a reform of EU e-commerce rules, which took effect in July 2021, that sought to simplify how online platforms collect VAT. A review of transactions from 2019 to 2021 by Italy's financial crime police found "unpaid VAT" by Amazon amounting to 1.2 billion euros, a sour
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