Israel battles Hamas as UN calls Gaza 'hell on earth'
Israeli forces battled Hamas militants and bombed more targets in the devastated Gaza Strip Tuesday with the UN General Assembly due to vote on a new demand for a ceasefire.
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US Fed kicks off rate meeting with another pause expected
The US Federal Reserve began a two-day interest rate meeting Tuesday at which policymakers are widely expected to hold rates steady for a third straight meeting as they continue the fight against high inflation.
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UK climate minister jets back from COP28 for key vote
Environmental groups on Tuesday slammed the UK government after its climate minister jetted back from the final stages of talks at the COP28 conference in Dubai to vote on a crunch immigration bill.
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Australian, American charged with running crypto Ponzi scheme
An Australian man and a US national have been charged in California with operating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
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Italy icon Chiellini calls time on playing career
Giorgio Chiellini on Tuesday announced his retirement at the age of 39, bringing the curtain down on a trophy-packed career.
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French celebrity writer Beigbeder arrested
Police detained French best-selling writer Frederic Beigbeder on Tuesday, prosecutors told AFP, without giving the reason for the arrest.
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S. Korean president tours ASML inner sanctum on chip trip
South Korea's president became the first foreign leader to visit the highly secure "cleanroom" of Dutch tech giant ASML Tuesday, on a trip focused on forging a "chip alliance" between the two global semiconductor powerhouses.
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Indonesia presidential candidates talk corruption, Papua in first debate
The three candidates vying to be Indonesia's next president clashed in their first debate on Tuesday over issues including corruption, human rights and separatist rebels in the world's third-largest democracy.
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At UN climate talks, no consensus on what consensus is
The world's climate negotiators meeting in Dubai have spent sleepless nights in an elusive quest for consensus, but there is no consensus on what consensus means.
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Sticky US inflation data holds back stocks
Sticky US inflation data kept stocks from making further sharp gains on Tuesday although indices held near peaks or records as investors bet on interest rate cuts.
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