Posts by Amelia Frost
Pakistan Tests Missile Weapons System Amid India Standoff
[ad_1] Pakistan’s military said it carried out a “training launch” of a surface-to-surface missile weapons system on Saturday, further heightening tensions with India after last month’s deadly attack in disputed Kashmir. New Delhi has blamed Islamabad for backing an attack on tourists last month in Indian-administered Kashmir, sparking a fresh stand-off between the nuclear-armed neighbours.…
Read MoreWhy Designated Beneficiaries Are Key to Your Estate Planning
[ad_1] Before Zygmund Furmaniuk’s aunt Mary died in 2023, she set up a trust to hold her assets and to distribute her estate, which was valued at nearly $1 million. A retired chemistry teacher, Mary Furmaniuk was single and had no children. Creating the trust, Mr. Furmaniuk said, was her way of making sure her…
Read MoreLives On Hold In India’s Border Villages With Pakistan
[ad_1] On India’s heavily fortified border with arch-rival Pakistan, residents of farming villages have sent families back from the frontier, recalling the terror of the last major conflict between the rival armies. Those who remain in the farming settlement of Sainth, home to some 1,500 people along the banks of the broad Chenab river, stare…
Read MoreMusk’s Dreams For Starbase City In Texas Hang On Vote
[ad_1] Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of gaining city status for his SpaceX spaceport in the southern US state of Texas could become a reality on Saturday, with voters set to green light Starbase as a new municipality. There’s little doubt over the outcome of the ballot that will likely name a senior SpaceX representative…
Read MoreTrump’s Tariff on Cheap Chinese Imports Will Cost Big Tech Billions
[ad_1] The expansion of the loophole for tariff-free shipments of goods nearly a decade ago gave rise to Temu, Shein and other low-cost online retailers offering items straight from Chinese factories at unfathomable discounts. It also unleashed something else — a cascade of billions of dollars of digital advertising that provided a windfall for Meta,…
Read MoreCar Prices Expected to Rise as Tariffs on Parts Kick In
[ad_1] The United States imposed 25 percent tariffs on imported auto parts on Saturday that could sharply raise prices for new and used vehicles as well as for repairs and insurance. The latest tariffs, which President Trump ordered in March as part of his plan to promote domestic manufacturing, come after the 25 percent levies…
Read MoreInflation, Hotel Prices Curtail Japanese ‘Golden Week’ Travels
[ad_1] Japan’s annual “Golden Week” holiday period gets into full swing Saturday, but inflation and hotel prices sent soaring by record inbound tourism have left domestic travellers less eager to pack their bags. Traditionally, Golden Week — which includes three consecutive public holidays — gives Japanese workers one of their longest breaks in the year,…
Read MoreTrump’s Next 100 Days: Now Comes The Hard Part
[ad_1] President Donald Trump spent his first 100 days issuing a blitz of executive orders to deliver rapidly on campaign pledges, drastically downsize the government and reshape America’s role on the global stage. But the job gets trickier now for the self-styled dealmaker-in-chief, who must corral fractious Republicans on Capitol Hill to anchor his domestic…
Read MoreTrump’s Tariffs Bite At Quiet US Ports
[ad_1] At the Port of Los Angeles, the frenetic choreography of cranes unloading containers from Asia has slowed to a tiptoe, and the noise of the busiest docks in the US is quieting. “You could hear a pin drop, it’s very unusual,” Port Director Gene Seroka told AFP. By this unofficial barometer, the American economy…
Read MoreMexican Mega-port Confronts Trump’s Tariff Storm
[ad_1] At dawn, container ships from Asia unload at a huge Pacific port in Mexico that so far appears to be weathering the storm unleashed by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Members of the navy patrol the waters off Lazaro Cardenas, which for years has also been a gateway for drug flows that Mexico is…
Read MoreNewark Airport Is Experiencing Major Flight Delays. What’s Causing Them?
[ad_1] Flying into or out of Newark Liberty International Airport has brought plenty of misery in the last week, with cancellations, delays stretching well past five hours and flight diversions that have stranded travelers far from their destinations. Passengers are reporting on social media that they have missed flights and spent hours stuck on the…
Read MoreTrump Says He’s ‘Taking Away’ Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status
[ad_1] Harvard University signaled Friday that it would resist President Trump’s renewed threat to revoke the school’s tax-exempt status, a move for which it said there was “no legal basis” as the president escalated his bitter dispute with the nation’s oldest university. Harvard stopped short of explicitly pledging a legal challenge to a revocation of…
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