Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said there are “simply no good options” for solving the debt limit stalemate in Washington other than Congress lifting the cap and cautioned that resorting to the 14th Amendment would provoke a constitutional crisis.
The head of the Wagner mercenary group said he’d been promised sufficient ammunition by Russia’s military to continue a campaign in Bakhmut in Ukraine’s east, walking back a threat to abandon the battle.
Chileans are voting to elect the 50 members of a new Constitutional Council Sunday as the nation tries — once again — to rewrite a charter dating from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger will step down months before early elections planned for Sept. 30 after his caretaker cabinet started to fall apart, he said Sunday in Bratislava.
Texas Republicans are seeking to take control of elections in the Houston area, a growing Democratic stronghold that is making statewide races more competitive and could eventually turn the state into a presidential battleground.
The potential shifts in the political landscape of emerging markets this year are putting investors on edge, with a slew of upcoming elections adding to pressure on flailing bonds, stocks and currencies.
Arab League states moved Sunday to reinstate Syria to the 22-nation bloc, effectively ending President Bashar Al-Assad’s decade of regional isolation in defiance of US warnings.
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha’s conservative political party warned voters against throwing the country into a “black hole of conflict” by supporting opposition groups that are proposing sweeping societal changes, as a power struggle intensifies ahead of next week’s general election.
Pakistan reassured China its investments and personnel in the country will be protected from increased militant attacks that hindered progress on President Xi Jinping’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative.
Ukraine’s air force commander said the military’s air defense intercepted a hypersonic Kh-47 “Kinzhal” missile, one of Russia’s most modern weapons, fired during a night attack on May 4, with the aid of a US Patriot defense system.
