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Worst not over for emerging market currencies as US dollar thunders on

Emerging market currencies will find it difficult to reclaim ground lost this year as relentless Federal Reserve rate hikes and safe-haven demand keep the dollar ascendant, a Reuters poll of currency strategists found. A stampede into the greenback pushed the wider index of emerging market currencies to its lowest in two years on Tuesday amid grow ...

Cryptoverse: Bitcoin’s no longer the king of the swingers

Bitcoin’s been called a lot of things. Buzzy, beguiling, baffling, even bogus. But never boring. Yet, of late, it’s been eerily subdued. The king of the swingers has been uncharacteristically treading water for days at around $20,000 and hasn’t ventured far beyond that since June. That spells trouble for traders and exchanges that profit fro ...

Shares ease, euro squeezed by energy crunch

European stock futures slid on Monday while the euro took a fresh spill after Russia shut a major gas pipeline to Europe, leading some governments there to announce emergency measures to ease the pain of soaring energy prices. The euro lost 0.3% to $0.9918 and looked likely to test its recent 20-year low of $0.99005 as markets priced in more risk ...

Flights canceled, some production suspended in Japan as storm nears

Japan on Monday braced for the impact of a strong approaching typhoon, with airlines canceling flights and some companies suspending production at factories in the western part of the country. Typhoon Hinnamnor was already pounding parts of the westernmost main island of Kyushu with heavy rain on Monday, with both rain and winds expected to worsen ...

Liz Truss named as Britain’s next prime minister

Liz Truss was named as Britain’s next prime minister on Monday, winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative party at a time when the country faces a cost of living crisis, industrial unrest and a recession. After weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive leadership contest that saw the foreign minister face off against former financ ...

Fuel leak to delay first launch of NASA’s Artemis moon rocket for weeks

For the second time in a week, NASA aborted a launch of its next-generation rocketship, citing a fuel leak can delay its moon-to-Mars Artemis program by at least several weeks. Preflight operations were called off for the day about three hours before the 2:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT) liftoff time targeted for the 32-story-tall Space Launch System (SLS) ...

Serena’s impact to be felt long after retirement: analysis

U.S. Open on Friday may be the last match of Serena Williams’ career but the impact she had on the game for over two decades will be felt for generations. Williams, who made her professional debut in 1995 a year after her older sister Venus, has been one of the game’s most marketable stars. She has a slew of corporate partners and in 2019 became t ...

US approves potential $1.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan amid China tensions

The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $1.1 billion sale of military equipment to Taiwan, including 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles, the Pentagon said on Friday, amid heightened tensions with China. The package was announced in the wake of China’s aggressive military drills around Taiwan following a visit to the islan ...

Dollar hits 20-year high as data support aggressive Fed

The dollar index vaulted to a 20-year high on Thursday, and notched a 24-year peak against the rate-sensitive Japanese yen, after U.S. data showed a resilient economy, giving the Federal Reserve more room to aggressively hike interest rates to quell inflation. The U.S. currency firmed after a government report showed that the number of Americans f ...

WhatsApp bans 2.4 million Indian accounts in July

WhatsApp banned 2.39 million Indian accounts in July, the highest so far this year, the Meta-owned popular instant messaging app said late on Thursday in its monthly report. The Asian nation’s stricter IT laws have made it necessary for large digital platforms to publish compliance reports every month. Draft rules circulated in June proposed se ...

Energy war as West caps Russian oil price, Moscow keeps gas pipe shut

Rich countries agreed on Friday to try to cap the global price of Russian oil, while Russia delayed the re-opening of its main gas pipeline to Germany, as both sides raised the stakes in an energy war between Moscow and the West over Ukraine. Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom blamed a technical fault in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. But ...

China to hold 20th Communist Party congress from Oct. 16

China’s ruling Communist Party will hold its five-yearly congress beginning on Oct. 16, with Xi Jinping poised to secure an historic third leadership term and cement his place as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. The Politburo announced on Tuesday the start date for the congress, which typically lasts about a week and takes plac ...

Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, dies aged 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had di ...

NASA to make second attempt at debut moon rocket launch on Saturday

NASA aims to make a second attempt to launch its giant next-generation moon rocket on Saturday, Sept. 3, five days after a pair of technical issues foiled an initial try at getting the spacecraft off the ground for the first time, agency officials said on Tuesday. But prospects for success on Saturday appeared clouded by weather reports predicting ...

Pakistan’s south braces for deluge from swollen northern rivers

Pakistan’s flooded southern Sindh province braced Sunday for a fresh deluge from swollen rivers in the north as the death toll from this year’s monsoon topped 1,000. The mighty Indus River that courses through Pakistan’s second-most populous region is fed by dozens of mountain tributaries to the north, but many have burst their banks following rec ...

India’s state-funded helmet promises ’fresh air’ in battle on winter smog

As India’s capital of New Delhi prepares for winter - and the accompanying season of acrid smog - the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80% of pollutants. State agencies have pumped thousands of dollars into Shellios Technolabs, a startup whose founder Amit Pathak began wo ...

Dollar gains as investors brace for higher rates

The U.S. dollar extended its rally on Monday, hitting a five-week high on the yen after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled interest rates would be kept higher for longer to bring down soaring inflation. The dollar rose 0.5% and back above 138 against the Japanese yen to hit 138.34 in early Asia trade, its highest since July 21. Ster ...

Dolphins use signature whistles to represent other dolphins – similarly to how humans use names

Bottlenose dolphins’ signature whistles just passed an important test in animal psychology. A new study by my colleagues and me has shown that these animals may use their whistles as namelike concepts. By presenting urine and the sounds of signature whistles to dolphins, my colleagues Vincent Janik, Sam Walmsey and I recently showed that these w ...

Ukraine celebrates Independence Day, with a new level of meaning as it fights back against Russia

I stood on Kyiv’s main boulevard, Khreshchatyk, one year ago, on Aug. 24, 2021, celebrating along with thousands of Ukrainians who were watching the Independence Day parade. The parade featured newly obtained weapons such as the lightweight missile systems known as Javelins. There were flyovers by Ukraine’s air forces, including the largest plan ...

30,000 more children in poverty - government looks the other way

Child poverty has increased significantly due to Corona. The government is allowing single parents, children and families living in poverty to slide through the crisis without adequate help. More and more adults and children are slipping into poverty. Almost 800,000 people in Austria are now permanently affected by poverty, including 370,000 childr ...

Austria’s unfair pension system: women get 41 percent less pension

Women receive 41 percent less pension than men - the difference in Austria is greater than almost anywhere else. The reasons for this: lower salaries, too few childcare places and consequently childcare times that are not counted. In Austria, women receive around 41 percent less pensions than men. On average across OECD countries, women have 26 ...

Record price increases: You make excuses because you can no longer afford the coffee

When a visit to the swimming pool becomes a luxury item The qualified masseuse is happy that she has the opportunity to do her apprenticeship in a company that she likes. It is important for them to stay in practice and "not have gaps in their CV". She likes to work and has done so with pleasure all her life. But now she’s experiencing wh ...

To Stem the Spread of Monkeypox, Health Departments Tap Into Networks of Those Most at Risk

On July 23, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. It was a contentious decision, with the WHO’s director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, making the final call and overruling the WHO’s emergency committee. The advisory committee’s disagreements mirrored debates that have been un ...

Everything You Need to Know About Paxlovid — Especially, Should You Take It?

When President Joe Biden tested positive for covid-19 on July 21, his physician recommended he take the antiviral drug Paxlovid. The drug significantly reduces the likelihood of hospitalization or death for someone at high risk of developing severe covid. Biden started the five-day course that day, according to the White House, and within six days ...

In America, Cancer Patients Endure Debt on Top of Disease

RAPID CITY, S.D. ― Jeni Rae Peters would make promises to herself as she lay awake nights after being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago. “My kids had lost so much,” said Peters, a single mom and mental health counselor. She had just adopted two girls and was fostering four other children. “I swore I wouldn’t force them to have yet ...

How Pfizer Won the Pandemic, Reaping Outsize Profit and Influence

The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company — Pfizer — making it both highly influential and hugely profitable as covid-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of people and kill hundreds each day. Its success in developing covid medicines has given the drugmaker unusual weight in determining U.S. h ...

Cuba introduces new Equality Bill

Discussions about a new bill on family law are being held in Cuba. The new bill includes the legalization of same-sex marriage, measures to achieve gender equality and protection of victims of domestic violence. The introduction of a new family law in autumn 2021 has led to widespread discussions among the Cuban population. Until now, more than ...

Fighting inflation: Spain makes public transport free until the end of the year

The socialist government in Spain is making public transport free of charge in response to inflation. Passengers can use the trains of the state railroad company free of charge until the end of the year. The only exceptions are long-distance trips and tickets for single journeys. With this measure, Spain wants to relieve the burden on commuters in ...

Welcome to the future: Climate neutral in 2020, Finland leads the way

Where the future is already here: in Kalasatama, a new district of Helsinki, people have been living climate-neutrally for years. From the capital’s fishing port to the showcase district, Finland under prime minister Sanna Marin shows how climate neutrality can be achieved – and is also socially just. Kalasatama, a leading example. In the new di ...

EU-Directive: 45 % renewable energy sources by 2030

The EU Committee on Industry, Research, and Energy agrees on increasing the overall share of renewable energy in European energy production. By 2030, 45% of energy demand is to be supplied from renewable sources. In addition, energy consumption is to be reduced by 40%. This is intended to contribute to greater climate neutrality and security of sup ...

Houston helps 25,000 people exit homelessness

Over the past 10 years, homelessness in Houston has dropped by 63%. Double the decrease seen anywhere else in the U.S. The city helped 25,000 people out of homelessness. So what does Houston do better than other major cities? The “housing first” concept gives homeless people their own apartment with no strings attached. More than ¾ of the formerly ...

Peace for Columbia: President Petro to start Negotiations with Guerillas

Gustavo Petro, president-elect of Columbia, announced that he wants to declare a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict with Columbian Guerilla Groups ELN and Farc-EP to finalise a peace treaty. Since 1964, over 260,000 civilians have died in the conflict. Petro’s announcement to start negotiations with the Guerilla fighters is not the first attempt to ...

Historic victory: Gustavo Petro becomes Colombia’s first left-wing president

In Colombia, Gustavo Petro won the presidential election. The ex-guerrilla fighter is the country’s first left-wing president. He thus continues the left’s winning streak in Latin America. Petro wants to change Colombia profoundly. The country is to move away from fossil fuels and become a model nation in the fight against climate change. Property ...

The 20 day IELTS ESSAY workout - Day 3

Let get started with studying 5 samples and write 1 practice daily !!!! ---- Day 3 ------ 1.Nowadays, more people are choosing to socialize online rather than face to face. Is this a positive or negative development? An increasing number of people meet and talk to their friends online instead of in person. In my opinion, this is a ...

The 20 day IELTS ESSAY workout - Day 2

Let get started with studying 5 samples and write 1 practice daily !!!! ---- Day 2 ------ 1. It is better for the students to live away from the home during their university studies rather than staying with their parents. To what extent do you agree or disagree? While some people think that students ought to live alone whilst study ...

The 20 day IELTS ESSAY workout - Day 1

Let get started with studying 5 samples and write 1 practice daily !!!! ---- Day 1 ------ 1. The education you receive from your family is more important than the education you receive from school. To what extent do you agree with this statement and why? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge ...
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Health Care Firms Were Pushed to Confront Racism. Now Some Are Investing in Black Startups.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Marcus Whitney stands out in Nashville’s $95 billion health care sector as an investor in startups. In addition to co-founding a venture capital firm, he’s organized an annual health tech conference and co-founded the city’s professional soccer club. And, often, he’s the only Black man in the room. So in summer 2020, as Bla ...
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Why Pregnant People Were Left Behind While Vaccines Moved at ‘Warp Speed’ to Help the Masses
Kia Slade was seven months pregnant, unvaccinated, and fighting for breath, her oxygen levels plummeting, when her son came into the world last May. A severe case of covid pneumonia had left Slade delirious. When the intensive care team tried to place an oxygen mask on her face, she snatched it away, she recalled. Her baby’s heart rate began to dro ...
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In Coal Basin, a hidden source of climate pollution
One morning in late September, a group of people gathered at a trail head in Coal Basin, near the town of Redstone, for a hike into the Elk Mountains. The weather was moody; wispy clouds clung to the tops of the snow-covered peaks, while the aspen groves lining the mountains’ lower flanks had erupted in gold. The group —various stakeholders from th ...
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Homemade Orange peel tea improves digestion and boosts immunity
According to researchers, the strong flavor of orange peel tea can increase the production of saliva and stomach acid. Drinking this tea regularly every morning can help stimulate the digestive system and improve the absorption of nutrients from food; Helps to boost metabolism and immunity of the body. 1.Ingredient: - Peel of half an orange - ...
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