Ukraine’s military says it has carried out a strike on a large oil terminal off the coast of the occupied Crimean Peninsula, the latest in a wave of attacks targeting Russian-controlled energy facilities. Officials in Kyiv said the country’s missile forces launched the strike on the Feodosia terminal – the largest oil processing facility on … Read more
Dave Pierce, director of strategic initiatives at GPS Capital Markets, discusses the market and economic implications of the latest U.S. data sets. Source link
KARACHI, Pakistan — A massive blast outside the Karachi airport in southern Pakistan killed two workers from China on Sunday and injured at least eight others in the latest deadly attack on Chinese in the country. Police and the provincial government said a tanker exploded near what is Pakistan’s largest airport. Video showed flames engulfing … Read more
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated. The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is “proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function.” Ambros performed the research that … Read more
Family Catherine Coyne died at home in 2008 at the age of 51 A woman who was treated by jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson died before questions emerged over her surgery and the secondary cancer that followed, her husband said. Catherine Coyne’s death is one of 62 being investigated in inquests opening in Birmingham into … Read more
The Rams are the second-youngest team in the NFL, and they’re showing their age. They don’t know how to win. Oh, they’ve gotten close. Over and over. But just as they showed Sunday in their 24-19 loss to Green Bay — incidentally, the league’s youngest team — they haven’t shown an ability to finish the … Read more
A French-Cameroonian writer, Charles Onana, is due to go on trial in Paris accused of complicity in contesting the 1994 Rwandan genocide. About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed within 100 days. In a book published five years ago, Mr Onana described the idea that the Hutu government had planned a genocide in Rwanda … Read more
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Alex Loo of TD Securities expects China to deliver a “pretty substantial fiscal package” and explains why he’s turned bullish on the country’s currency. Source link
Donald Trump has pledged to end taxes on everything from tips to Social Security and overtime pay if he’s elected to the White House again. But he hasn’t detailed how he would fund those ideas and avoid creating a huge budget shortfall, beyond arguing he will usher in an economic boom. He argues his ideas … Read more
TOKYO — A team of scientists from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in Fukushima on Monday as part of an annual monitoring and sampling mission to ensure safety of the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea, officials said. Japan began discharging the wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in August … Read more