The Global Gender Gap score for 146 countries in the report was 68.4% this year, a slight improvement of 0.3 percentage points from the 2022 score of 68.1%.
The Biden administration has reportedly reached out to the Cuban government to try to block the deal from moving forward. Washington is concerned that the facility, if established, could lead to China deploying its troops and conducting its security or intelligence operations on the island.
Former President Donald Trump claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if he won the 2020 election.
Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, will plead guilty to two federal tax charges in a deal struck with the Department of Justice.
The State Department confirmed that Antony Blinken would meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping Monday, but based on the readout of Blinken's meetings with two senior Chinese officials, it appears there has been little progress made on the secretary of state's original agenda for his China state visit.
"It's just irresponsible action that places our service members at risk, places our nation['s] security [at] risk. You cannot have these documents floating around. They need to be secured," Esper said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stuttered during a meeting with pro-Russian military bloggers.
"If you are punished with a counterfeit passport, only me will receive it," Kwon reportedly said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also said the nuclear weapons serve as Moscow's "guarantee" amid the war.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet China's top envoy and potentially President Xi Jinping Monday, on the final day of a trip to Beijing aimed at improving severely strained ties.
The catalog featured nearly 10,000 photos taken between 2008 and 2019 showing First Son Hunter Biden.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday hosts Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for talks in Paris, seeking to nudge the de-facto leader of the oil-rich kingdom into more full-throated support of Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
Yurii Ihnat, the spokesperson for Ukraine's Air Forces Command, said Russia has a shortage of missiles to use in the war in Ukraine.
Emmanuel Macron might once again be the key to keeping Kylian Mbappe in France.
Francis Suarez came into national view following his efforts to lure tech investors into Miami, and he is joining the 2024 GOP field with little funding, a crowded Republican lineup and investigations into his alleged use of influence to help a local developer with his real estate project.
Donald Trump is starting to receive criticism from some GOP members after news of his alleged mishandling of classified documents emerged. Republicans were largely supportive of Trump in his first indictment, but it seems division is brewing as more members turn away this time. Though Trump has pleaded not guilty, some Republicans point out that this time around, he isn't a victim.
Latvian President-elect Edgars Rinkevičs warned that Russia's neighboring countries should be on "alert day and night" in case Moscow does end up losing the war in Ukraine.
Silvio Berlusconi, who dominated Italian public life for decades as a billionaire media mogul, businessman and prime minister, has died aged 86.
Russian Senator Valentina Matviyenko, who is also chairwoman of the Federation Council, also said the country will remain a "world power" amid sanctions from the West and Europe following its invasion of Ukraine.
Donald Trump faces a formidable task defending against charges that he illegally kept top-secret documents upon leaving the White House in 2021, according to legal experts, who said neither the law nor the facts appear to be on his side.
The latest twist in Donald Trump's attritional war with US law enforcement, as with so much else in the former president's story, throws the United States into unprecedented territory.
The latest developments in Trump's legal battles are drawing comparisons to the historical presidential bids of socialist and anti-war activist Eugene V. Debs, who, despite not winning the presidency, managed to get nearly a million votes while in prison in 1920.
DeSantis appears to have gained more confidence following the second indictment of his Republican rival in 2024 as he already claimed that his administration will make the DOJ accountable for weaponizing law enforcement and its political bias against the GOP.
Cuba, which was at center stage in 1962 for the missile crisis that put JFK and the Soviets on the verge of a nuclear war for 13 days, has reportedly reached a deal with China for the latter to build a spying facility on the island. Cuba and the U.S. have both denied the report.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury for retaining classified government documents and obstruction of justice, according to a source familiar with the matter.
A Ukrainian intelligence official said Russian President Vladimir Putin's body doubles are kept in different places.
While former Finance Minister Milojko Spajić confirmed he knew Kwon, he denied the crypto executive's claim and called him a "fraudster who defrauded millions of people."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he never gave out orders to target the gas pipelines.
There have been speculations that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin wants to plot a military coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed human rights with Saudi Arabia's crown prince Tuesday during a trip aimed at boosting ties with the long-time ally, which has forged closer relations with Washington's rivals.
