Posts by Newsmaker

Row With US Energy Trader Worsens Haiti’s Fuel Crisis

Row With US Energy Trader Worsens Haiti’s Fuel Crisis

A dispute between Haiti and a U.S. energy trading firm is leading to long blackouts and fuel shortages in the...

Trump: Boeing Should Fix, then Re-brand Max Jets

Trump: Boeing Should Fix, then Re-brand Max Jets

President Donald Trump is offering some unsolicited advice to Boeing, manufacturer of the troubled 737 Max jet. Trump tweeted Monday...

Ivanka Trump In Africa For Women’s Economic Summit

Ivanka Trump In Africa For Women’s Economic Summit

Ivanka Trump arrived in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, Sunday for a summit on African women’s economic inclusion and...

Tech Program Turns Low Income S. Africa Girls Into High Achievers

Tech Program Turns Low Income S. Africa Girls Into High Achievers

Women are woefully underrepresented in technology, science, engineering and mathematics jobs in South Africa. But for the last decade, a...

Who Runs the World? TechnoGirls

Who Runs the World? TechnoGirls

Women are woefully underrepresented in technology, science, engineering and mathematics jobs in South Africa. But for the last decade, a...

World’s Largest Plane Makes First Flight Over California

World’s Largest Plane Makes First Flight Over California

The world’s largest aircraft took off over the Mojave Desert in California Saturday, the first flight for the carbon-composite plane...

Israeli Probe Crashes Moments Before Historic Moon Landing

Israeli Probe Crashes Moments Before Historic Moon Landing

Even though the U.S. first landed on the moon 50 years ago this year, it’s never been — nor will...

Trump Vows to Win 5G Race

Trump Vows to Win 5G Race

In the race to beat China in the fifth generation of wireless technology, known as 5G, U.S. President Donald Trump...

Why Cryptocurrency Is Gaining in Philippines Despite 2018 Bitcoin Crash

Why Cryptocurrency Is Gaining in Philippines Despite 2018 Bitcoin Crash

Cryptocurrency exchanges are growing in the Philippines, despite a downturn last year in the value of the virtual currencies, due...

Facebook Spends $22.6 Million on Security for Zuckerberg

Facebook Spends $22.6 Million on Security for Zuckerberg

Facebook Inc. more than doubled the money it spent on Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s security in 2018 to $22.6...

Malaysia Pulls About-Face Ahead of China’s Belt and Road Forum

Malaysia Pulls About-Face Ahead of China’s Belt and Road Forum

In a twist, China has announced that it has persuaded Malaysia to resume a canceled rail project worth $10.7 billion....

Blackouts Threaten Death Blow to Venezuela’s Industrial Survivors

Blackouts Threaten Death Blow to Venezuela’s Industrial Survivors

The latest power outage started another tough week for factory owner Antonello Lorusso in the city of Valencia, once Venezuela’s...

SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket, Lands All 3 Boosters

SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket, Lands All 3 Boosters

SpaceX launched its second supersized rocket and for the first time landed all three boosters Thursday, a year after sending...

Uber Reports 91 Million Users but Slowing Growth

Uber Reports 91 Million Users but Slowing Growth

Uber Technologies Inc. has 91 million users, but growth is slowing and it may never make a profit, the ride-hailing company said...

Ecuador’s Hunter-gatherers in Court Over Oil Drilling in Amazon 

Ecuador’s Hunter-gatherers in Court Over Oil Drilling in Amazon 

Hunter-gatherers in the Amazon sought in court on Thursday to stop Ecuador’s government from auctioning their land to oil companies, as tension...

US Official Voices Broad Concerns Over China-Based Companies

US Official Voices Broad Concerns Over China-Based Companies

Lin Feng contributed to this report WASHINGTON — A senior official in the U.S. Department of State said Wednesday the security...

Lack of Higher Education Hinders Unemployed US Youth

Lack of Higher Education Hinders Unemployed US Youth

One group in the United States who is not enjoying the low national unemployment rate is 18- to 24-year-old young...

3D Laser Imaging Shines New Light on ‘Last Supper’ Site

3D Laser Imaging Shines New Light on ‘Last Supper’ Site

The arched stone-built hall in Jerusalem venerated by Christians as the site of Jesus’ Last Supper has been digitally recreated...

Dutch Firm ASML Says It Suffered IP Theft, Rejects ‘Chinese’ Link

Dutch Firm ASML Says It Suffered IP Theft, Rejects ‘Chinese’ Link

Dutch ASML said on Thursday it had been the victim of corporate espionage in 2015 involving employees from countries including...

Bezos: Amazon Will Take Risks, Learn From Failures

Bezos: Amazon Will Take Risks, Learn From Failures

Amazon challenged its retail rivals to raise their wages and improve benefits, saying the competition will help everyone. CEO and...

US Consumer Prices Rise Solidly, But Underlying Trend Tame

US Consumer Prices Rise Solidly, But Underlying Trend Tame

U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in 14 months in March, but the underlying inflation trend remained benign amid...

Facebook Cracks Down on Groups Spreading Harmful Information

Facebook Cracks Down on Groups Spreading Harmful Information

Facebook says it is rolling out a wide range of updates aimed at combatting the spread of false and harmful...