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Mar 27 2023
News
Largest strike in decades brings Germany to a standstill
Airports and bus and train stations across Germany were at a standstill on Monday, causing disruption for millions at the start of the working week during one of the largest walkouts in decades as Europe's biggest economy reels from inflation.
The 24-hour strikes called by the Verdi trade union and railway and transport union EVG were the latest in months of industrial action which has
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Jan 12 2023
News
Toronto Stocks Rise; Aritzia Shares Drop on Inventory Concerns in 3Q
Stocks in Toronto were moderately higher in midday trading Thursday after briefly dipping into red territory earlier in the morning. In the session, energy and tech were the main leading sectors, while retail trade was the outsized laggard. The sector was largely down as shares of women's fashion brand Aritzia Inc. fell after reporting higher costs and a larger inventory in its third quarter.
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Dec 13 2022
News
CPI Report Shows U.S. Inflation Eased in November
Consumer prices rose last month at the slowest 12-month pace since December 2021, closing out a year in which inflation hit the highest level in four decades and challenged the Federal Reserve’s ability to keep the U.S. economy on track.
The Labor Department on Tuesday said that its consumer-price index climbed 7.1% in November from a year ago, down sharply from 7.7% in October—building
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Sep 28 2022
News
Russia’s Mobilization, Plunging Oil Prices Weaken Putin’s Economic Hand
A costly troop mobilization, plunging energy prices and a new round of Western sanctions threaten to bear down on Russia’s already embattled economy and undermine the financial underpinnings of President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
The economic storm clouds come as Mr. Putin orders more financial resources directed at the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin’s decision to call up more than
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Oct 06 2022
News
Pain at the pump could shift midterm outcome: 'This election is likely won or lost at the pump'
Gas prices are spiking ahead of the midterm elections, and many strategists agree that regardless of whether President Biden's policies caused the high prices, "this election is likely won or lost at the pump."
California is currently experiencing the highest gas prices in the country at $6.43 a gallon, a two dollar increase from the same time last year when the cost for gas per gallon
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Dec 02 2022
News
Pope Francis: The effects of the war in Ukraine are being felt all over the world
Pope Francis said Friday that the war between Russia and Ukraine is an example of the “globalization of problems” with the far-felt effects of the energy and food crises.
In a message to heads of state and other civil authorities participating in a high-level conference on geopolitics in Rome on Dec. 2, the pope said that the food crisis in particular is affecting “a growing number of
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Mar 04 2023
Perspectives Blog
Lab Leak Theory Returns After DOE Report
New intelligence has led the Department of Energy (DOE) to shift its stance on COVID-19's origins and support the lab leak theory, once deemed a conspiracy by some politicians, journalists, and scientists. The Details: On Monday, news broke that the DOE now concludes with "low confidence" that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely began with an accidental leak at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
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Mar 02 2023
News
COVID Lab Leak Revelations: What We Know and What We Don't
A new report has revealed that intelligence analysts at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) concluded that COVID-19 most likely came from a Chinese laboratory, making it the second U.S. government agency to adopt such a position on the emergence of the pandemic.
On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal wrote, citing sources who have read the new classified document, that the department had
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Mar 02 2023
News
Intelligence Agencies Debunk a Yearslong Narrative About the Havana Syndrome
After years of investigating, intelligence agencies have concluded the “Havana syndrome,” allegedly afflicting diplomatic staffers all over the world, cannot be tied to the actions of a foreign adversary.
The CIA and six other intelligence agencies reviewed approximately 1,000 cases of career diplomats and those serving in U.S. missions abroad experiencing “anomalous health incidents
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Jan 01 2023
Opinion
Cheer Up! The World Is Better Off Than You Think.
Enough with the doom and gloom! Our planet may be in better shape than you think.
Human beings have a cognitive bias toward bad news (keeping us alert and alive), and we journalists reflect that: We report on planes that crash, not planes that land. We highlight disasters, setbacks, threats and deaths, so 2022 has kept us busy.
But a constant gush of despairing news can be
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