Pedestrians on Anne Street South in Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ireland’s government on Tuesday outlined how it intends to spend 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in Apple back taxes — a windfall that Dublin actually spent several years fighting to avoid. In a bumper pre-election budget … Read more
South Korean police have detained a North Korean defector for attempting to cross the heavily-guarded border back to the North on a stolen bus. The man was caught Tuesday on the Unification Bridge that separates the two Koreas, where he ignored soldiers who asked him to stop and crashed the bus into a barricade. Though … Read more
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has survived a second non-confidence motion in parliament in as many weeks. The motion, brought by the opposition Conservatives, was aimed at bringing down his minority Liberal government and triggering a federal election. The motion failed after Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre again fell short in his effort to gain the … Read more
Reuters Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz was a civil, relatively restrained conversation about issues facing American voters during the 2024 campaign. In that, it was unlike the two presidential debates earlier this year. There were moments when Vance bristled at what he though was unfair fact-checking from the … Read more
Passengers arrive at the Beijing railway station on the first day of peak travel ahead of the National Day holidays in China’s capital city on Sept. 29, 2023. Jade Gao | Afp | Getty Images China is expecting to see more travelers during Golden Week, but the country’s persistent economic woes will likely continue to … Read more
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Xavierarnau | E+ | Getty Images Saudi Arabia cut its growth forecasts and raised its budget deficit estimates for the fiscal years 2024 to 2026, looking ahead to a period of higher spending and lower projected oil revenues. Real gross domestic product is now expected to grow 0.8% this year, a dramatic … Read more
An Eli Lilly & Co. Zepbound injection pen, March 28, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images As a port strike stretching from New England to Texas halted nearly half of all trade coming into the U.S., customs data shows that critical medical devices and drug components for the booming, expensive weight-loss and diabetes drugs … Read more
A girl hugging a young cattle at a breeding farm in Chongqing, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Fed up with China’s employment situation, young people on the mainland are retreating to the countryside. China’s Gen Z and millennials are increasingly documenting their rural day-to-day “retirement” lives on social media after declaring … Read more
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A general view of Isfahan Refinery, one of the largest refineries in Iran and is considered as the first refinery in the country in terms of diversity of petroleum products in Isfahan, Iran on November 08, 2023. Fatemeh Bahrami | Anadolu | Getty Images Oil watchers are now seeing a genuine threat to crude supplies … Read more