MOSCOW — The signature sauce has changed and the ingredients have been tweaked, but the “Big Hit,” which went on sale in Russia this week, is a tasty alternative to the McDonald’s Big Mac it is replacing, several customers said. ...
ATHENS — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called it an unspeakable tragedy but questions are being asked whether the fatal collision of passenger and freight trains on Tuesday night could have been prevented. Nearly 24 hours after the two trains ...
LONDON — Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide hit a record high last year, although cleaner technology such as solar power and electric vehicles helped limit the impact of increased coal and oil use, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said ...
SEOUL — South Korea’s government on Thursday promised to boost exports and attract tourists as the country’s statistics agency released January data that showed gloomy prospects for the economy. Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho said at a meeting of officials the ...
GENEVA — Global merchandise trade growth slowed at the end of 2022 and was likely to remain weak in the first quarter of this year, the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday. However, the WTO said any slowdown may be short-lived given ...
WASHINGTON — The US House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday along party lines to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, in what would be the most far-reaching US restriction on any social media app. Lawmakers voted 24 to 16 to ...
A golf course owned by the John Lewis Partnership for almost a century has been put up for sale as the department store owner seeks to cut costs and after failing to attract staff onto the links. John Lewis will ...
Arthur Travers-Borgstroem, a Finnish writer, published a book entitled Mutualism that deals with ideas of social reform, and culminates in a plea for the nationalization of credit. A German edition appeared in 1923. In 1917, the author had established a ...
Why are Large Cap Leaders leading? While the major indices still try to sort out the next interest rate direction, soft, hard or no landing, and/or if inflation has peaked, a few stocks have dominated. Companies like Steel Dynamics (both ...
It is tempting, as Naomi Wolf has done recently, to ascribe the breakdown of Western civilization to the debasing of “Judeo-Christian” ethics and the reemergence 0f malignant supernatural forces. Witnessing the many assaults on the infrastructure and social order of ...