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Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)--The U.S. military in Okinawa Prefecture has said that all U.S. troops stationed in the southernmost Japan prefecture will observe a 48-hour operational pause from noon Wednesday, following the alleged murder of a local woman by a Marine, who was arrested Sunday. The personnel are prohibited from leaving their bases in the prefecture and consuming al...
Russia denies plague cases after laboratory technician's death; US demands 'transparency' as WHO monitors situation.
US data show record imports from Mexico in August and a US$27.7 billion goods gap, the widest with any country, ahead of a 2027 trade pact review. The post Mexico Exports to the US Hit Record US$60.6 Billion appeared first on The Rio Times.
The US and Russia have each offered to help each other tackling infectious diseases.
The US trade deficit widened sharply in August to the largest since early 2025 as a surge in inbound shipments of capital goods helped push imports to a record.
In August, US employment in roles most exposed to AI for people aged between 22 and 25 shrank by 4.4 percent year-on-year. This means there's been a contraction every single month since October 2023, about a year after ChatGPT was first released. The high impact of AI on younger workers is one of the key trends emerging from the Canaries Dashboard, a project led by the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and ADP Research. We spoke to ADP Research's Chief Economist Nela Richardson in our Business segment.
The higher the wall of worry, the faster US stocks have climbed it, clocking its first record since August on Tuesday. But to Jim Paulsen, the cumulative pressure from $100 oil prices, 5% Treasury yields and an elevated dollar is yet to be felt in a major way.
The recent US-China summit yielded a narrow, caution-filled outcome for bilateral trade: a two-month extension of the Kuala Lumpur trade truce, which now expires on January 10 next year. This reprieve eases fears of immediate tariff escalation and shows that head-of-state diplomacy can still curb spiralling confrontation. Yet the short timeline exposes the wide gulf separating the two sides’ priorities. China’s position has been unambiguous: removal of all punitive tariffs and restrictive...
The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 5.31% while the S&P 500 gained 0.66%. See how Fed hike odds shape the dollar, Brazil and emerging markets today. The post US Yields Rise to 5.31% as Fed Hike Odds Linger | Global Economy, Oct 6 appeared first on The Rio Times.
Venezuelan crude shipments to Spain reached 641,000 tonnes in August, edging past US supplies for third place, official data published on Monday show. The post Venezuela Edges Past US in Spain Crude Sales in August appeared first on The Rio Times.
Quebec separatists eyed a return to power in Canada’s majority French-speaking province on Monday in an election that could test Prime Minister Mark Carney’s message of national unity to confront the United States. Carney is popular in Quebec and the possible success of the separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) is not seen as a repudiation of his stance towards US President Donald Trump, whose trade war and annexation threats have infuriated Canadians. Instead, the PQ’s rise after 12 years in...
The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is in India to advance U.S.-India major defence partnership and deepen military-to-military cooperation
Rubio visits Iceland, says no direct link between the removal of US bombers and suspicions of a terrorist act in the UK
For more than eight decades, the remains of US fighter pilot Morton Sher lay unrecovered in China. A photograph of a memorial to him in a Hunan village eventually helped investigators find where his plane crashed in 1943. Sher was buried in his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, in December 2025, a homecoming that offers a rare example of what US-China cooperation can achieve for families of missing servicemen. That cooperation has now drawn fresh attention. After the recent summit between...
Mexico's Defence Ministry sent 500 soldiers and National Guard troops to five Tamaulipas border towns in Operation Mirror, matching a US build-up in Texas. The post Mexico Sends 500 Troops to Tamaulipas Border in Operation Mirror With US appeared first on The Rio Times.
A reported plan to station US defence personnel inside Taiwan’s military headquarters would take cooperation from external help into the heart of defence planning, potentially angering Beijing while raising questions over Taipei’s policymaking autonomy and military secrecy. According to Taiwanese media reports at the weekend, the Pentagon plans to send one official from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defence for Policy and one expert from the Institute for Defence Analyses (IDA) to work on...
Mexico neighbours define its trade, migration and water future, from the US border to Guatemala and Belize, and what that means for foreign readers. The post Mexico Neighbours Explained for US, Canada and Beyond appeared first on The Rio Times.
A Laotian citizen deported by the United States to eSwatini under Donald Trump administration’s immigration crackdown was released from a maximum-security prison in the African nation on Sunday after being held there for more than a year, his lawyer said. Phone Chomsavanh was among five immigrants deported to eSwatini – where he has no ties – in July 2025, in the early days of the Trump administration’s secretive and highly contentious third-country deportation programme. Chomsavanh’s US-based...
Zheng Yongnian is a political scientist in China and a government adviser. His academic work is mainly about contemporary China, particularly politics, the country’s transformation and its external relations. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here. Many have offered a lukewarm assessment of the Xi-Trump summit in Washington, citing the lack of a breakthrough. What is your take? There are two primary views right now. One is...
Iran's diplomat said on Sunday there was no military solution to the US war against Iran as peace talks appeared stalled. Washington has scaled back attacks in favour of economic pressure, while Iran's attempted Hormuz blockade remains contentious. A UK maritime agency reported another tanker hit by an unidentified projectile.
US guns made up 204 of 279 crime firearms Trinidad and Tobago police sent for US tracing in 2025, up from 52% in 2020, even as homicides edged lower. The post Trinidad and Tobago: Nearly Three in Four Traced Crime Guns Came Through the US appeared first on The Rio Times.
Iran’s top diplomat insisted on Sunday that there would be no military solution to the United States’ war against the Islamic republic, with talks on ending the conflict apparently at an impasse. A campaign of heavy bombardment failed to bring a decisive close to the war launched by the US and Israel in late February, and Washington in recent weeks has dialled back military operations in favour of economic pressure. The main point of contention remains Iran’s attempt to blockade the Strait of...
China spent decades building a dominant position across rare-earth mining, processing and magnet manufacturing, leaving the US dependent on a foreign supply chain for materials essential to everything from vehicles and wind turbines to electronics and defense systems. MP Materials is now trying to rebuild that chain domestically, moving from its Mountain Pass mine in California into refining. But catching up will take more than finding minerals: the US still faces higher costs, limited processing capacity, opaque pricing and a Chinese lead that industry experts say took roughly 25 years to build. (Source: Bloomberg)
Tehran says reopening Strait of Hormuz has been its main goal, while the US continues to focus on nuclear talks.