In response to claims that she was an World Bank official and pressured staffers into changing business ranks in order to placate China, the International Monetary Fund stated "full confidence" Tuesday.
In a statement, the IMF's 24 members executive board stated that their review...
Glassblowers from Murano have survived pandemics and plagues. To beat the low-priced Asian competition, they switched to highly valued artistic creations. However, rising energy prices are threatening their economic model.
There are still dozens of furnaces on the lagoon island, where Venetian...
A computer-graphic-soaked advertisement featuring Australian actor and Hollywood heartthrob Chris Hemsworth beckons the world to Dubai's upcoming Expo 2020, promising a "world of pure imagination" as children without facemasks race across a futuristic carnival scene.
Reality crashes into the frame...
British gas stations were crowded with cars for the fourth day, Monday. This was as the government considered sending in the army to ease disruptions caused by shortages of truck drivers.
Brian Madderson, chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, stated...
The last few months have seen a steady flow of strong hiring, but this may have been due to the fact that the spread of the delta variant has discouraged some Americans' from shopping, flying and dining out.
According to...
Despite a slow start, the European Union's COVID-19 vaccination drive has caught up with that of the United States. The United States' slowdown in its once-famous campaign has contributed to the virus’s deadly return.
In mid-February, less than 4% of...
The U.S. Coast Guard reported that a sightseeing plane crashed in southeast Alaska on Thursday, killing six people.
According to the Coast Guard and Federal Aviation Administration, the emergency beacon on the plane was activated at 11:20 am when it...
To meet the COVID-19 patients who struggle to breathe, Indonesia converted almost all of its oxygen production to medical uses. In Malaysia, overflowing hospitals had to turn to the floors to treat patients. In Myanmar's largest city of Yangon, graveyard workers...
A global media consortium has found additional evidence that NSO Group, Israel's most notorious hacker-for hire outfit, is using military-grade malware to spy on journalists, activists, and political dissidents.
A list of over 50,000 phone numbers was compiled by Forbidden...
Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected sign the bill
California's state legislature unanimously approved a bill to guarantee monthly income from taxpayers. It does not restrict the income of foster children or pregnant women, but it does provide for guaranteed monthly income. It...
According to the authors, Zuckerberg did not want to participate.
An updated tell-all by Sheera Frenkel of the New York Times and Cecilia Kang "An ugly truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination" examines Facebook's meteoric rise, its "slow motion fall...
Auction for $870,000: An unopened copy of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda, which was produced in 1987, has been sold.
Heritage Auctions Dallas reported that the video game was sold Friday.
According to the auction house, it is a rare edition...
After months of cooling, more Americans signed contracts to purchase homes in May. This is a remarkable rebound after months of cooling.
The National Association of Realtors' index of home sales pending rose by 8% to 114.7 last month. This...
The U.S. economy grew by 6.4% in the first three months, setting the stage to what economists believe will be the best year in nearly seven decades.
The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the growth in gross domestic product, which...
However when he meets Tuesday with European Union leaders in Brussels, Biden might discover that making up is difficult to do. The possibility of having an accord to solve their differences -- and possibly form a united front from...
Many U.S. firms have hurried to recycle Black members with their boards of supervisors because civic justice protests swept the nation this past year.
Black guys even lost ground.
The Board Diversity Census, conducted by the Alliance of Board Diversity along...
The rich are different from you and meThey're better at respecting the tax man.
And financier George Soros went straight years without paying federal income tax, based on a report Tuesday in the nonprofit investigative journalism firm ProPublica.
In general, the...
Soaring resources and stocks from the last year have in certain instances given midlevel employees huge windfalls.
People people who have profited from the industry surge normally fall into one of three groups, stated Sahil Vakil, creator of personal-finance tech...
The multi-billion-dollar acquisition can place Trump in an embarrassing situation
Together with Amazon poised to get the legendary movie studio, it usually means that the corporate giant -- that boasts Bezos because its biggest individual shareholder -- will have the...
President Joe Biden's $6 trillion budget proposal for next year could conduct a $1.8 trillion federal government deficit despite a raft of new tax increases on high-income and corporations individuals designed to pay for his ambitious spending plans.
Biden had...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to appeal to leaders of the planet's wealthiest states to unite in a"colossal mission" to Find COVID-19 vaccines to every Nation and to direct a sustainable recovery in the pandemic
LONDON -- British Prime...
New Orleans' yearly pre-Lenten Mardi Gras party is muted this season Due to the coronavirus pandemic
Bars closed. Crowds suppressed. Mardi Gras pleasure is muted this season in New Orleans as authorities want to stifle the coronavirus's disperse. And it...
The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the extradition of an American father and son wanted by Japan at the escape of former Nissan Motor Co. boss Carlos Ghosn
Justice Stephen Breyer denied a bid to place the...
Mercedes-Benz is recalling over 1.3 million vehicles since the applications inside their emergency-call systems can send fighters into the incorrect location after an accident
NEW YORK -- Mercedes-Benz is remembering over 1.3 million vehicles since the applications inside their emergency-call...
Maryland lawmakers are moving ahead with a first-in-the-nation taxation on internet advertisements for large businesses like Facebook and Google to help cover an ambitious and expensive step to Increase K-12 education
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Maryland lawmakers are moving ahead with...
MILAN (AP) -- The former European Central Bank leader credited with helping save the euro has now been tapped to direct Italy, the eurozone's third-largest market, from this pandemic as well as the worst recession since World War II.
Mario...
Germany's health minister wants to press forward with procuring coronavirus vaccine equipment for 2022, rather at the European Union level but when mandatory nationwide
Germany's health minister wishes to press forward with procuring coronavirus vaccine equipment for 2022, rather at...
Police dispersed protesters in a Sunday protest in Hungary's capital where employees in the nation's struggling hospitality industry demanded civil disobedience and a rethinking of coronavirus lockdown limitations.
Organizers of the protest onto a central square in Budapest known for...
A group of Senate Republicans called on President Joe Biden to fulfill them at the negotiating table since the recently elected president indicated that he could proceed to pass on a new $1.9 trillion coronavirus help package with Democratic...
The Democratic push to boost the national minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as a early flashpoint in the struggle to get a 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, analyzing President Joe Biden's capacity to bridge Washington's partisan...
Mexico's pandemic-hit market plummeted 8.5percent in 2020
Mexico's pandemic-hit market plummeted 8.5percent in 2020, the biggest single-year fall since 1932 and also the next successive year of economic contraction.
Mexico's gross domestic product grew 3.1percent in the last few months of...
American Airlines has seen its stock rise this week because it got caught up in chaos between small investors and market traders That Are betting against the Business
American Airlines' stock climbed before this week during market volatility around struggling...
Stocks plummeted as a speculative frenzy over GameStop and a handful of other stocks ramps up concerns over how much damage an Internet revolt against Wall Street bigwigs can perform to the wider market
Another bout of selling gripped the...
The only two Toys R Us stores that started in November 2019 as a part of a little U.S. comeback effort by the iconic toy series have closed.
The Toys R Us store in the Galleria mall in Houston shuttered...
Global stocks have largely turned lower as new statistics revealed the latest coronavirus constraints were hurting the market and as investors seem to upcoming firm earnings
Global stocks largely switched lower on Monday on worries regarding the financial harm of...
The European Union is pressuring the pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca to deliver greater offenses to its 27 countries and adhere to first promises, particularly since it's spent in improving production capacity
Even the European Union is pressuring the pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca...
About 25,000 U.K. retailing projects stay under threat even as it emerged Monday that online fashion company Boohoo has purchased Debenhams, among the Nation's oldest department store chains
About 25,000 U.K. retailing projects stay under threat as it emerged Monday...
A UN report states that four times as many jobs were lost annually because of this coronavirus pandemic as during the worst Aspect of the international financial meltdown in 2009
Twice as many jobs were lost annually on account of...
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Abraham Accords | A major development towards peace in the Middle...
I have traveled regularly to Israel for over 20 years; in fact, I've been there now more than 40 times, for professional or personal...
