Posts by Amelia Frost
Just Stop Oil Activist Group Holds Final March
[ad_1] British environmental activist group Just Stop Oil held its final demonstration in London on Saturday, ending three years of high-profile climate protest stunts as they moved their focus away from civil disobedience. Several hundred supporters walked peacefully through the centre of the British capital, from parliament to the headquarters of oil and gas giant…
Read MoreSyria’s Kurds Demand ‘Democratic Decentralised’ Syria
[ad_1] Syria’s Kurdish parties on Saturday adopted a joint political vision calling for a “decentralised democratic” state in Syria with guarantees for Kurdish rights. Their statement came at the end of a conference held in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, where a top Kurdish official disputed suggestions that the meeting sought division following the fall of longtime…
Read MoreCanada Leaders Make Final Pitches In Campaign Upended By Trump
[ad_1] Canadian leaders campaigned in battleground districts Saturday, two days before a vote electrified by US President Donald Trump’s threats, with Prime Minister Mark Carney favored after assuring voters he can stand up to Washington. A victory for Carney’s Liberal Party would mark one of the most dramatic turnarounds in Canadian political history. On January…
Read MoreTurkey’s Opposition Says Erdogan’s Canal Plan Behind Latest Arrests
[ad_1] Prosecutors in Turkey announced dozens more arrests Saturday as part of an ongoing corruption probe, denounced by opposition leaders as a pretext to remove resistance to an ambitious Istanbul canal project. The Istanbul general prosecutor’s office said Saturday it had issued warrants for 53 people, 47 of whom had been detained, over a corruption…
Read MoreTrump, Zelensky Meet On Sidelines Of Pope’s Funeral
[ad_1] Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky met briefly in the hush of St Peter’s basilica on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday in their first encounter since a noisy White House clash, as the US president pushes the Ukrainian leader to make a peace deal with Russia. Zelensky said they discussed a possible…
Read More‘Shared Loss’: Filipino Catholics Bid Pope Francis Farewell
[ad_1] Filipino faithful prayed the rosary inside a Manila church on Saturday as the funeral of Pope Francis played overhead on large screens. Young people crowded into the front rows of the Sacred Heart Parish Shrine, where a trio of large fans kept parishioners cool as four days of national mourning in Asia’s Catholic bastion…
Read MoreFamilies Unable To Reunite As India-Pakistan Border Slams Shut
[ad_1] Indian business owner Rishi Kumar Jisrani has spent two days watching a messy scramble of people haul suitcases and drop loved ones at the border with Pakistan before it shuts, with dwindling hopes his family will be allowed across. As relations between Islamabad and New Delhi quickly deteriorate, the neighbouring nations have scrapped visas…
Read MoreForeign Carmakers Strive For ‘China Speed’ To Stay In Race
[ad_1] In fluid synchronisation, dozens of robotic arms picked up metal parts and welded them onto vehicle beds, as car skeletons gradually took shape and progressed along an automated factory floor near the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo. Across the country, car models rolling off assembly lines like this have gone from concept to release…
Read MoreHamas Says Open To 5-year Gaza Truce, One-time Hostages Release
[ad_1] Hamas is open to an agreement to end the war in Gaza that would see all hostages released and secure a five-year truce, an official said Saturday ahead of talks with mediators. A Hamas delegation was in Cairo to discuss with Egyptian mediators ways out of the 18-month war, as on the ground rescuers…
Read MoreHow Francis Wooed Donors
[ad_1] Founded by Conrad Hilton, the hotel magnate, the Hilton Foundation is one of the biggest financial backers of Catholic sisters’ work around the world, and has given roughly $28.5 million to Vatican-led initiatives, including Vatican departments, since 2020. Francis saw donors as vital partners. He looked to them not only to fund the causes…
Read MoreDollar Doubts Dominate Gathering of Global Economic Leaders
[ad_1] On the sidelines of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to convey an important message about the United States dollar. Speaking to a crowd of global policymakers, regulators and investors, Mr. Bessent sought to allay fears that had ballooned in recent weeks…
Read MoreHarvard’s War With Trump Forces Question of How Endowments Should Be Spent
[ad_1] There are proposals from Republicans in Congress to increase the tax on large endowments, potentially to 14 percent, much higher than the 1.4 percent put in place eight years ago. Assuming a 10 percent return, that would leave Harvard with a tax bill of about $742,000,000, roughly equal to what it spent on financial…
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