Turkey braces for Russian economic pain
After urging Russians to stop travelling to Turkey, Ankara is bracing for further pain in other sectors after the shooting down of a Russian jet. As David Pollard reports, food and energy are possible targets.
After urging Russians to stop travelling to Turkey, Ankara is bracing for further pain in other sectors after the shooting down of a Russian jet. As David Pollard reports, food and energy are possible targets.
Skies over the Paris region will be closed for six hours as part of the massive security operation for the July 26 opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the Paris airports operator said Wednesday. Augustin de Romanet, chairman of Aéroports de Paris, said airlines are being warned in advance about the closure and told they will have to fly around the restricted airspace. “For six hours, there won't be any aircraft over the Paris region," he said on France Info radio.
An Aviator College plane crashed on March 30, killing the instructor and injuring the student. A preliminary report from the NTSB shows what happened.
Many of those granted pardons or commuted sentences had been given longer prison sentences than they would have under current law.
Residents of coastal Gullah Geechee communities are at risk of losing their homes with more frequent storm surges, rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change.
French supermarket group Casino said Wednesday it would axe between 1,300 and 3,200 jobs as part of a reorganisation following its recent takeover led by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky.That ended with the arrival in March of Kretinsky at the head of a group of main creditors who oversaw a debt restructuring deal.
The United Arab Emirates announced $544 million to repair the homes of Emirati families on Wednesday after last week's record rains caused widespread flooding and brought the oil-rich Gulf state to a standstill.The rainfall, the UAE's heaviest since records began 75 years ago, killed at least four people, including three Filipino workers and one Emirati.
The outgoing chief executive of top semiconductor equipment supplier ASML said on Wednesday that the U.S. government will prevent the company from servicing some machines it has previously sold to Chinese customers in some cases. Such restrictions "will not have a significant effect on the 2025 to 2030 financials, because it will be a limited number" of Chinese plants that are affected, Peter Wennink said. ASML, the largest maker of equipment used to manufacture computer chips, has faced a series of restrictions and licensing requirements from the U.S. and Dutch governments in selling its more advanced equipment lines to Chinese customers.
Ukraine claims to have destroyed almost 1 million cubic feet of fuel in a drone strike on Russian state-owned oil depots.
Naturalists have already spotted the first arrivals in a rare phenomenon during which cicadas will emerge across more than a dozen US states, including populous areas.
The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II will be digitized and made available for free, genealogy company Ancestry announced Wednesday. The website, known as one of the largest global online resources of family history, is collaborating with the Irei Project, which has been working to memorialize more than 125,000 detainees. People will be able to look at more than just names and tell “a bigger story of a person,” said Duncan Ryūken Williams, the Irei Project director.
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine needed this.
After a tense overnight standoff, Columbia University officials and students appeared to agree to further talks Wednesday on clearing a pro-Palestinian protestor encampment that has paralyzed the New York campus. It was not immediately clear if university officials had agreed to such terms, though New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said she had no plans to call in the National Guard.
Talk of an economic miracle is foundational to Modi's appeal and legitimacy at home. Yet his record is far from clear cut.
An Oklahoma man faces up to 12 years in prison on a Caribbean island after customs officials found ammunition in his luggage.
The foot deformity is common, especially among older people—but a stigma persists.
Social media giant Meta will report its Q1 earnings after the bell Wednesday.
In 1974, the Supreme Court accepted, heard and decided a case within two months because the justices understood its importance to the public.
Troubled aviation giant Boeing reported a first-quarter loss of $343 million on Wednesday, reflecting recent safety troubles that have slowed production and deliveries."Our first quarter results reflect the immediate actions we've taken to slow down 737 production to drive improvements in quality," said Chief Executive Dave Calhoun, who will step down at the end of 2024.
Police in Brooklyn made scores of arrests after a standoff on the streets, days after hundreds of arrests were made at Columbia University and NYU.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest business lobby, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to strike down a federal agency's near-total ban on employers requiring workers to sign agreements not to join rivals or launch competing businesses. The Chamber's lawsuit in federal court in Tyler, Texas, alleges that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission lacks the power to adopt sweeping rules such as the ban on so-called noncompete agreements released on Tuesday, which is set to take effect in August. The FTC is empowered by federal law to enforce existing antitrust laws passed by Congress, but not to enact rules determining what other type of conduct by businesses is anticompetitive, the Chamber said in the lawsuit.