By Naomi Tajitsu and Maki Shiraki | YOKOHAMA, Japan YOKOHAMA, Japan Nissan Motor Co has taken a step back into gasoline hybrids with its Note e-Power model, which the Japanese automaker hopes will act as a gateway for drivers who will later shift to all-electric cars. The move will also trim Nissan’s costs. Nissan’s battery-electric Leaf, the industry’s first mass-market, all-electric car launched in 2010, is the […]
Millions of Indians are preparing to vote in the biggest test of public opinion since prime minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation of 500 and 1,000-rupee notes three months ago – a move which has plunged the country into an unprecedented cash crisis and sent the economy into a tailspin. Over the next four weeks, starting today, a series of regional elections will be held across India […]
Photo A construction site in the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim in the West Bank, near Jerusalem. Credit Dan Balilty for The New York Times JERUSALEM — Israel approved 3,000 more housing units in the occupied West Bank late Tuesday, the largest number in a wave of new construction plans that defy the international community and that open a forceful phase in the country’s expansion into land […]
The oil industry is zeroing in on a prospective tax shift in Washington that has the potential to upend energy flows around the world. The “border adjustment tax” (BAT) put forth by Republican lawmakers and embraced sporadically by President Donald Trump would radically change the way companies are levied, taxing imports and exempting exports in the world’s biggest economy. While the Trump administration’s stance on BAT has […]
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley outlined the country’s budget for the coming fiscal year in a presentation to Parliament on Wednesday. His speech— which The Wall Street Journal live blogged — went for more than two-hours and 30 pages. The full budget document is much longer but there are easier-to-absorb shortcuts to the budget basics on his website: indiabudget.gov.in The website has the full speech with annexes as well as a 15-page “Key Features […]
By Eli Berlzon | AMONA, West Bank AMONA, West Bank Israeli police moved into an outpost in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday to remove settlers who Israel’s Supreme Court ruled have been living illegally on privately owned Palestinian land. Settlers and dozens of pro-settlement activists who flocked to the Amona outpost to protest against the evacuation burned tyres and piled makeshift barricades at its entrance. But […]
BERLIN More than 1,100 German police searched 54 homes, business premises and mosques in Frankfurt and other towns in the western state of Hesse in the early hours of Wednesday and arrested a Tunisian man suspected of planning an attack, German authorities said. The 36-year-old Tunisian is suspected of recruiting for Islamic State in Germany since August 2015 and building up a network of supporters with the […]
When searching for a picture of a “gang” on the internet, you’d better not go with an image of your average rap group. It’s too late for the Daily Mail, whose Australian iteration published a photo of UK rappers Section Boyz in an article about a local gang in Melbourne. The picture has since been removed from the article, following a tweet from TV show Media Watch […]
Uber’s self-driving car ambition just got another boost after it signed on the German automaker Daimler in an initiative to develop automated vehicles for its ride-hailing network. Looking at the announcement, however, one is left wondering if the partnership could really lead Uber to build a driverless car on its own. Uber’s Role Uber CEO Travis Kalanick stated that, here, Uber is not going to be involved […]
Wednesday 06:00 GMT Overview Stock markets across Asia were mixed after disappointing earnings and weak US data pushed Wall Street lower overnight. European bourses are expected to open higher, with spreadbetters predicting the UK’s FTSE 100 will add 34 points to 7,133 and Germany’s Dax to gain 70 points to 11,605. The rebound comes after Wall Street climbed sharply off its session lows on Tuesday, and index […]
President Donald Trump named his pick for the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday night, tapping Judge Neil M. Gorsuch of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Gorsuch would fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Like Trump, he’s an Ivy Leaguer: He attended Columbia University, Harvard Law School — and also the University of […]
WASHINGTON: Iran’s ballistic missile launch on Sunday was Tehran’s “first litmus test” for the Donald Trump administration as much as it was a regional show of force, according to experts.With the launch coming just nine days into the Trump presidency, Iran-watchers expect the new administration to respond through the different levers at its disposal.A more aggressive retaliation could, however, backfire, and lead to an unintended escalation in […]
DHAKA Bangladesh security forces on Wednesday arrested four members of an Islamist militant group blamed for an attack on a cafe in Dhaka in 2016 which killed 22 people, most of them foreigners. The July attack in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter was claimed by the Islamic State and was the worst militant attack in Bangladesh, which has been hit by a spate of killings of liberals and members […]
By Lawrence Hurley and Steve Holland | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Neil Gorsuch for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, picking the 49-year-old federal appeals court judge to restore the court’s conservative majority and help shape rulings on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control, the death penalty and religious rights. The Colorado native faces a potentially contentious confirmation battle in […]
By Sinead Carew and Jamie McGeever | NEW YORK/LONDON NEW YORK/LONDON U.S. President Donald Trump and a top economics adviser on Tuesday unleashed a barrage of criticism against Germany, Japan and China, saying the three key U.S. trading partners were engaged in devaluing their currencies to the harm of American companies and consumers. The comments from Trump at the end of a White House meeting with pharmaceutical […]
Over the past 2.4 billion years, oxygen particles from the Earth’s atmosphere have been streaming to the moon, researchers of a new study revealed. Observations Of Japanese Lunar Orbiter Kaguya Using data from studies of moon rocks and measurements taken by the Japanese lunar orbiter Kaguya, which was launched to study history, surface, and local gravitational environment of the moon, researchers found evidence that the moon may have […]
Elliott Management, the activist investment group, has called for the removal of Klaus Kleinfeld as chief executive of Arconic, the specialist metals and components company created last year by the break-up of Alcoa, arguing that “current management’s persistent failure . . . has destroyed considerable shareholder value”. The fund manager, Arconic’s largest shareholder with direct control of 10.5 per cent of the group’s shares, and a further 1.6 per cent through […]
Photo Refugees at the Ja’adah camp in Iraq. Children who are most in need of assistance come from Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan. Credit Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times Children who are most in need of emergency international assistance come from five of the seven countries covered by President Trump’s order barring entry to the United States, according to a United Nations report. The […]
For the London Metal Exchange, the traditional winter holiday lull in activity which affects most other financial markets comes almost a month later. Traders say that the influence of China in copper, aluminium and nickel markets, means their operations almost grind to a halt during the Chinese new year. The slowdown was clearly visible on Monday, with turnover in benchmark three-month copper futures falling to less than […]
By Kevin Dougherty and Allison Lampert | QUEBEC CITY QUEBEC CITY The French-Canadian student accused of killing six people during evening prayers in a Quebec City mosque had rented an apartment nearby, neighbours said on Tuesday, a sign he may have been targeting the house of worship. Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, was charged in court on Monday with six counts of premeditated murder and five counts of attempted […]
“I remember, when I was a youngster, we used to have to translate Erasmus. He was already travelling as a scholar 500 years ago.” Sir Eric Thomas, the retired vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol, is reminiscing about his Latin A-level classes, in which the journals of the 15th-century Dutch Renaissance scholar featured prominently. “Even all that time ago, the concept of there being an international community […]
Worries about the future of youth football are mounting as evidence of long-term cognitive dangers of playing the game grows. Continue reading the main story For years, the sport’s top officials have played down the science and insisted that tackle football could be played safely. Neurologists have found a degenerative brain disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, in an alarming number of former football players, and last year the […]
By Ned Parker | UNITED NATIONS UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday emphasized the need for nondiscriminatory border controls, comments widely seen as a criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary freeze on U.S. entry for all refugees and citizens from seven Muslim nations. “Countries have the right, even the obligation, to responsibly manage their borders to avoid infiltration by members of terrorist organizations,” Guterres […]
Written by Anees Jillani | Published:February 1, 2017 12:31 am Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (File Photo) Since January 4, a five-member Bench headed by the second seniormost judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has been hearing for three hours every day petitions alleging corruption by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, filed by the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan, and the head of the […]
