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Elizabeth Warren’s challenge: Breaking out of murky middle

Elizabeth Warren isn’t struggling like Joe Biden. But she isn’t soaring, like Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders.Instead, the Massachusetts senator enters a critical str

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NATO's image worsens sharply in France, United States, study shows

NATO’s public image in the United States and France worsened sharply last year, according to a Pew Research Center study, after U.S. President Donald Trump and French P

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Pope to visit Malta on May 31 in first foreign trip of 2020

Pope Francis will visit the Mediterranean island nation of Malta on May 31, the Vatican said Monday, confirming the Pope’s first foreign trip for the year.Other rumored

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German politics upended as Merkel's heir apparent quits

Chancellor Angela Merkel's heir apparent shook up German politics Monday by declaring she would step down as the governing party's leader and not run for chancellor, fu

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Malaysia says yet to decide on new search for MH370

Malaysia on Monday said it has yet to decide on launching a new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing with 239 people on board nearly six years

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Germany: Merkel’s party in crisis as heir apparent quits

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s heir apparent unexpectedly threw in the towel Monday, plunging her conservative party into an even deeper crisis as it struggles to ag

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Bribery trial begins against ex-Ecuador leader Rafael Correa

Prosecutors opened what some are calling Ecuador’s trial of a century Monday against former President Rafael Correa and 20 other high-ranking politicians and business l

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Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget proposal revisits rejected cuts

President Donald Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion election-year budget plan that recycles previously rejected cuts to domestic programs to promise a balanced budget in

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Xinhua Headlines-Xi Focus: Xi vows to win people's war against novel coronavirus

Xi said the situation at the moment remains very serious but expressed confidence that China can certainly obtain a full victory in the fight against the epidemic. By J

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Xi Focus: Xi vows to win people's war against novel coronavirus

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspects t

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Ghana to use $1 billion to restructure power deals

Ghana aims to restructure power deals. (File Photo) Ghana plans to use as much as $1 billion of the Eurobonds it sold last week to help restructure the country’s obligations to independent po

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White House budget proposal aims to close deficit in 15 years

The White House on Monday unveiled a budget proposal for next fiscal year that would cut major domestic programs, claiming that solid economic growth would support substantial deficit reduction and

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What happened to Slack today

You’ve been busy. I’ve been busy. But people are talking about Slack all over Twitter, so let me catch us both up.All the ruckus concerning Slack and its publicly traded stock appeared to

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SaaS kicks off 2020 with an extra billion in VC funding as round count halves

The venture capital world is investing more capital into software-as-a-service companies (SaaS), despite cutting the number of deals it executes within the startup category, according to Crunchbase da

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A US House candidate says she was hacked — now she’s warning others

“I cannot think of a reason not to share this with the public,” said Brianna Wu tweeted.“Two of my non-campaign Google accounts were compromised by someone in Russia,” she said

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CurieMD is using telehealth to plug the menopause support gap

U.S. femtech startup CurieMD is offering menopause diagnosis and treatment prescription via a telehealth platform — beginning in California, where it launched late last year.Founder Dr Leslie Meserve

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Activist gig workers seek to form nonprofit to support fellow workers

Vanessa Bain (pictured above), a well-known gig worker-activist, has teamed up with fellow gig worker-activist Sarah Clarke (pseudonym) to form the Gig Workers Collective. It’s early days for th