Category: Trends

Comment on this story Comment When Daniel Zhu bought his first electric car earlier this year, the primary motivation wasn’t environmental. It was practical. Getting a license plate for a gasoline car in Beijing was nearly impossible. What’s more, Arcfox, a Chinese brand launched by the state-owned BAIC Group in 2020 as a potential Tesla […]

The Taliban announced on Tuesday the closure of universities to women in Afghanistan, in the latest attack on women’s rights in the country. “This is a nightmare for women in Afghanistan,” Naheed Farid, an Afghanistan parliamentarian in-exile who is now a professional specialist at Princeton University, tells TIME. Ziaullah Hasmi, the spokesman for the Ministry […]

The Taliban have released two Americans detained in Afghanistan, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Tuesday.  The released Americans are being provided with “all appropriate assistance.” The names of the individuals were not confirmed out of respect for their privacy, according to a senior administration official.  “They will soon be reunited with their loved ones, […]

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine is expected to make a visit to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, multiple congressional sources and a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News. Zelenskyy is expected to give an evening speech before a joint session of Congress, meet with Congressional leaders, and visit with President Joe Biden at the White House. […]

El Paso, Texas — The Biden administration on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to deny a request by Republican-led states to keep the Title 42 pandemic-era border restrictions in place indefinitely, saying the expulsions of migrants under the policy can no longer be justified on public health grounds. In a 41-page filing, Solicitor General Elizabeth […]

Comment on this story Comment TOKYO — Heavy snow in northwestern Japan since the weekend has left at least three people dead, stranded hundreds of vehicles on highways, disrupted trains and left thousands of homes without electricity, officials said Wednesday. The powerful weather system brought heavy snow to Japan’s northern coastal areas since Saturday, with […]

Comment on this story Comment BENGALURU, India — For renewable energy companies in India, it’s a good time to be in business. One of India’s largest renewable energy firms, Renew Power, will be among the corporations big and small hoping for a piece of a $2.6 billion government scheme that encourages the domestic manufacturing of […]

Huge crowds celebrate Argentina’s World Cup win Huge crowds celebrate Argentina’s World Cup win 00:25 Argentinian soccer superstar Lionel Messi just won his first-ever World Cup, and he can now boast having the most-liked post on Instagram of all time, too. As of Tuesday morning, the post had more than 62 million likes, topping the […]

A parade to celebrate the Argentine World Cup champions was abruptly cut short Tuesday as millions of people poured onto thoroughfares, highways and overpasses in a chaotic attempt to catch a glimpse of the national team that won one of the greatest World Cup finals of all time. So many jubilant, flag-waving fans swarmed the […]

The Taliban’s de facto authorities on Tuesday banned women and girls from attending universities and from getting higher education in Afghanistan, according to the letter released by the Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education. Tuesday’s order, which is effectively immediately, completed all the restrictions the Taliban imposed on Afghan woman’s life in the 1990s, taking Afghanistan […]