Mr. Greenblatt got a very different message at an earlier dinner with two other prominent Palestinians, Salam Fayyad and Ziad Asali, and two American Jewish diplomats, Elliott Abrams and Dennis B. Ross. They all told him that a breakthrough was not realistic now, and that Mr. Trump would be better off pursuing incremental advances, like bettering the economic fortunes of the Palestinians. Continue reading the main story […]
LIMA Peru’s national prosecutors office said on Friday it has opened an investigation into allegations of “crimes against humanity” related to the military’s fight against leftist guerrillas in the 1990s, in a case involving former President Ollanta Humala. The investigation comes as testimony from two new witnesses suggests that soldiers under Humala’s command at the Madre Mia military base tortured and murdered civilians. Humala was an army […]
Johnson & Johnson has again lost in one of its legal battles that raise questions over the safety of its talc-based products. J&J Ordered To Pay More Than $110 Million To Virginia Woman Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer On Thursday, May 4 a Missouri jury ordered the company to pay more than $110 million to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using Johnson & Johnson […]
By Mike Stone | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Washington is working to push through contracts for tens of billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, some new, others in the pipeline, ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to the kingdom this month, people familiar with the talks told Reuters this week. Saudi Arabia is Trump’s first stop on his maiden international trip, a sign of his […]
NEW YORK An octogenarian former New Jersey deputy mayor who once thrilled audiences as burlesque star Hope Diamond plans to sparkle again in the role next week at a charity event – though at her age she plans to keep her clothes on. Three years after being released from prison following a bribery conviction, former Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini is headed back to the stage […]
By Ellen Francis | BEIRUT BEIRUT Syrian government forces and rebels clashed in the northwestern province of Hama on Friday shortly after a Russian-led deal to establish de-escalation zones took effect, a monitor and a rebel official said. Fighter jets fired at the rebel-held village of al-Zalakiyat and nearby positions in the Hama countryside, where the combatants exchanged shelling, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The […]
By Jonathan Stempel | OMAHA, Neb. OMAHA, Neb. Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N), the conglomerate run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, on Friday reported a 27 percent decline in first-quarter profit, and said a loss from insurance underwriting contributed to operating results that fell short of forecasts. The results were released one day before Berkshire’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, where Buffett, 86, and Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie […]
Taking the art of photography a notch higher, researchers at Sweden’s Lund University developed a camera, which can capture five trillion images in a second or moments as short as 0.2 trillionths of a second. These extraordinary capabilities of the new camera dubbed FRAME or Frequency Recognition Algorithm for Multiple Exposures, has earned it the title of the fastest camera in the world. However, the camera is not […]
Trump may bring jobs back to the US, but robots will get them This could be an important victory for a new president, a major capitulation by an Indian IT company or the emergence of a new model for Indian IT in the face of a rapidly shifting business landscape — or, as the case may be, all of the above. A few days ago, Indian IT […]
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, a man of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wealth Liberty Blitzkrieg readers know that I’ve been extremely critical of […]
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Friday that barriers and challenges for women in the workplace, if not addressed, will hamper U.S. economic growth. Better paid leave and improving access to affordable and good-quality childcare would make it easier for women – and men – to combine family and career goals, Yellen said in a speech on “125 years of women’s participation in the economy” […]
By Dominique Vidalon | PARIS PARIS The shareholders of AccorHotels (ACCP.PA) on Friday granted former French President Nicolas Sarkozy a seat on the board of Europe’s largest hotel group, and rejected a bid to block long-term shareholders from getting more double voting rights. Chairman and CEO Sebastien Bazin reiterated at the annual shareholders meeting that double voting rights were a good way to foster loyalty and stability […]
BEIRUT The Syrian Kurdish PYD party rejects a Russian proposal to create de-escalation zones in Syria and views it as “sectarian partition” of the country, a spokesman said on Friday. Iran and Turkey agreed on Thursday to the Russian plan, but the memorandum was not immediately published, leaving its details unclear. The zones appear intended to halt conflict in specific areas between Syrian government forces and rebels, […]
By James Pearson and Ju-min Park | SEOUL SEOUL In February 2016, Yoo Chang-geun and around 120 other South Korean businessmen frantically pulled their staff out of the Kaesong Industrial Zone, jointly run with North Korea. Seoul had ordered it closed after Pyongyang defied international warnings and tested a long-range rocket. Now, with South Koreans in next week’s presidential election almost certain to elect liberal Moon Jae-in, […]
When NPR’s David Folkenflik was growing up in the Southern California town of Laguna Beach, he would occasionally visit an enormous newsstand where readers could find almost anything they wanted to read. The Economist was next to Time. The surfer magazines were next to the tattoo magazines. The fake or dubious news — the National Enquirers of the world — were also in their own slots, somewhere in the […]
By Saikat Chatterjee | HONG KONG HONG KONG Asian stocks declined for a third consecutive day on Friday as fresh falls in commodities raised concerns about the health of the global economy, though the euro bucked the broad weakness on receding concerns about France’s presidential election. Chinese stocks led regional losers, falling to a three-month low as concerns about tighter financial regulations weighed on banking shares while […]
Spotify and a host of European internet businesses have called on Brussels to crack down on what they see as troubling practices by the likes of Apple and Google. Big internet platforms “can and do abuse their privileged position”, according to a letter signed by the chief executives of Spotify, music streaming rival Deezer and German start-up investor Rocket Internet among others. Although the letter to the […]
SHANGHAI China’s home-grown C919 passenger jet is set to take to the skies on its long-delayed maiden flight on Friday, a major step for Beijing as it looks to boost its profile in the global aviation market. The narrow-body aircraft, which will compete with Boeing’s (BA.N) 737 and the Airbus (AIR.PA) A320, is a key symbol of China’s ambitions to muscle into a global jet market estimated […]
At the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt, Palestinians are peering through a towering border gate. What they’re looking at isn’t initially clear in Rosalind Nashashibi’s short film Electrical Gaza, but then, the 43-year-old British artist doesn’t deal in grand, obvious statements. Instead, she depicts everyday life, children playing in the street, horses swimming in the sea and even some animated scenes. It’s not quite the image […]
The US energy industry has morphed from 2016’s big winner to the bottom of the heap this year in a slide that has accelerated as oil prices fell on Thursday to the lowest level since November. Energy stocks listed on the S&P 500 index dropped 1.9 per cent on Thursday. The fall brings the sector’s decline this year to 12.1 per cent, the biggest drop of the […]
By Michael Flaherty and Ankit Ajmera Greenlight Capital escalated its battle against General Motors Co (GM.N) on Thursday, posting credit ratings documents that it said the automaker inappropriately changed to undermine the hedge fund’s proposal to create two classes of GM stock. Greenlight, which owns 3.6 percent of GM shares, has said its dual share plan would boost GM’s value by creating a dividend class and a […]
BOSTON President Donald Trump’s executive order on Thursday making it easier for churches to dabble in politics kept faith with his promise to evangelical Christians who helped him win the White House, but could end up benefiting his opponents as well. Leaders of the U.S. religious left, a rising force of opposition to Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration and healthcare, said they were poised to benefit from […]
May 4, 2017 by: Katrina Manson in New York Donald Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican on his first foreign trip as US president in an effort to unite a coalition against Islamist terrorism and Iran and extract more from traditional allies. The travel plans mark a departure from US foreign policy norms, which usually see new presidents visit neighbouring Canada or Mexico within a month of taking office. […]
Fun times, tan lines, and the threat of tick-borne diseases. Apparently, this is what summer has got in store for us this year. As if blacklegged ticks in the country aren’t already teeming with enough pathogens to make us go crazy, there’s a new tick infection to add to the list — Powassan virus. Rumor has it, it’s even worse than Lyme disease. What Is Powassan Virus? […]
