Category: Trends

Comment on this story Comment DEAD SEA, Jordan — Leaders from the Middle East and Europe gathered in Jordan Tuesday in a conference focused on bolstering security and stability in Iraq. The meeting included high-level officials from regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran, along with leaders from France, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday made an unexpected trip to Bakhmut, a city in the eastern Donetsk region where some of the bloodiest fighting is taking place. Zelensky spokesman Sergii Nykyforov said in a Facebook post the president had visited “the front positions of one of the mechanized brigades.” It was not immediately clear […]

Comment on this story Comment After a Royal Thai Navy warship sank in rough waters late Sunday, rescue teams have discovered five bodies and a new survivor on Tuesday. Around two dozen people remain missing, officials said. Around 76 others have been rescued of the 105-member crew that was on board when the ship sank. […]

Comment on this story Comment WARSAW, Poland — A Polish man who died fighting in Ukraine was buried in his native soil Tuesday as weeping mourners praised him as a hero of two nations. The body of Daniel Sztyber, 35, of Warsaw, lay in a coffin covered in Poland’s white-and-red flag. Young Ukrainians draped in […]

Elon Musk is actively searching for a new chief executive officer for Twitter Inc., CNBC’s David Faber reported, after the billionaire lost a straw poll he posted on the social media site that asked users whether he should relinquish his role as head of the company. More than 10 million votes, or 57.5%, were in […]

Comment on this story Comment CAIRO — Sudan’s ousted president on Tuesday took “full responsibility” for the 1989 coup that led to his presidency, according to the first televised testimony of his ongoing trial. Omar al-Bashir’s admission came during court proceedings in Sudan, where he faces charges relating to the overthrow of the former elected […]

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.5%-points last week. That should be the last such raise. The Core CPI—consumer prices with the volatile food and energy sectors taken out—rose by only 0.2% in America in November. That would be a 2.4% annual rate. Food and energy inflation came out lower. The Headline CPI—the entire […]

CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., two of the largest U.S. pharmacy chains, are limiting purchases of children’s pain-relief medicines amid constrained supplies and high demand. CVS is restricting shoppers to two products each for in-store and online purchases. Walgreens is limiting online orders to six products and isn’t setting limits for in-store […]

The men’s soccer world championship ended in Qatar on Dec. 18 with one of the most thrilling finals in the league’s 92-year history. It was a night of heart-stopping drama that went into overtime, and then some, ultimately ending with the coronation of Argentina as world champions. For Qatar, a gas-rich gulf nation with big […]

There’s an idiom in Swedish—kärt besvär—that I quite love. It sums up many of the important things we do in life. And as one ages, it seems more and more that everything becomes a kärt besvär. The words break down to kärt (sounds like “shairt”), meaning “dear or cherished or beloved,” and besvär (sounds like […]