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Bill Ackman said he would be “would be surprised if deposit outflows don’t accelerate effective immediately.” [...]
The Federal Reserve risks "raising rates too high too fast," Zandi tweeted. “That will be on them.” [...]
It's been a hectic week for abortion policy. [...]
The new construction market is thawing—just look at builder cancellation rates. [...]
Dwayne Johnson, who played the supervillain Black Adam in DC Studios' 2022 movie, reportedly didn't want to appear on a post-credits scene in Shazam 2. [...]
A.I. in the workplace could make life a lot easier for many employees, but growing pains may be inevitable. [...]
The agency issued a Wells Notice alleging securities law violations. Coinbase says it will go to court. [...]
The charges are yet another chapter in the SEC's months-long post-FTX crypto crackdown. [...]
The regulator believes the largest U.S. crypto exchange violated investor-protection laws in several aspects of its business, including its staking and wallet service. [...]
U.S. regulators clawed back money that actress Lindsay Lohan and boxer Jake Paul earned by promoting cryptocurrencies. [...]
U.S. stock indexes edged down after a closely watched interest-rate decision from the Federal Reserve. [...]
The Fed chairman also said there is no reason to think the problems that led to Silicon Valley Bank’s downfall are systemic. [...]
Investors fear other banks will sell mortgage-backed securities, pushing down prices. [...]
The combined weighting of Apple and Microsoft in the S&P 500 has risen to the highest level on record. [...]
The Federal Reserve erred on the side of inflation caution and noted that bank turmoil will tighten conditions. [...]
Crisis threatened an economic model and national identity built on safeguarding the world’s wealth. [...]
Jiang Yanyong, the military doctor who alerted the world to the real extent of the 2003 SARS outbreak, passed away in Beijing on March 11, 2023. Initially hailed as a national hero, Jiang was later imprisoned and then subject to intermittent surveillance and house arrest… [...]
Word of the week: Westernized Lifestyle (生活西化 shēnghuó xīhuà) Chinese state media’s clumsy coverage of the Oscar-winning film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” has given birth to a new euphemism for homosexuality: “Westernized lifestyle” (生活西化 shēnghuó xīhuà). After the film won Best Picture at the… [...]
Recent reports from several think tanks detailed the important role of the media in framing—and at times, facilitating or limiting—Chinese influence across Africa. These reports highlight the CCP’s growing efforts at disseminating external propaganda, as well as the agency of local actors in cultivating a… [...]
This year, the United Nations’ theme for March 8 International Women’s Day was “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.” In China, people marked the holiday with a variety of thought-provoking and creative events centered on women’s lives, both online and off. This third part… [...]
Mpox -- previously known as 'monkeypox' -- is currently spreading worldwide. Researchers have now identified a compound that could help fight the disease. [...]
Changes in the brain caused by Alzheimer's disease are associated with shortening of the telomeres -- the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes that shorten as cells age -- according to a new study. [...]
Engineers have developed a new water treatment that removes 'forever chemicals' from drinking water safely, efficiently -- and for good. [...]
Researchers have 'hacked' the earliest stages of photosynthesis, the natural machine that powers the vast majority of life on Earth, and discovered new ways to extract energy from the process, a finding that could lead to new ways of generating clean fuel and renewable energy. [...]
The push toward truly autonomous vehicles has been hindered by the cost and time associated with safety testing, but a new system shows that artificial intelligence can reduce the testing miles required by 99.99%. [...]
By combing through genomic data of over 1 million people of European or African descent, scientists have identified genes commonly inherited across addiction disorders, regardless of the substance being used. This dataset -- one of largest and most diverse of its kind -- may help… [...]
When the first interstellar comet ever seen in our solar system was discovered in 2017, one characteristic -- an unexplained acceleration away from the sun -- sparked wild speculation, including that it was an alien spacecraft. An astrochemist found a simpler explanation and tested it… [...]
A model system created by stacking a pair of monolayer semiconductors is giving physicists a simpler way to study confounding quantum behavior, from heavy fermions to exotic quantum phase transitions. [...]
A string of unauthorised communities sit on hills near Palestinian villages, deep inside the territory. [...]
Action on Armed Violence say they have evidence that RAF strikes may have caused civilian deaths. [...]
An Israeli museum is showing the 1,100-year-old Codex Sassoon before it is sold for as much as $50m. [...]
Egyptian referee Mohamed Farouk is suspended for using a spectator's mobile phone to disallow a goal [...]
Lawmakers vote to allow Israelis back into four West Bank settlements evacuated in 2005. [...]
Saad Ibrahim Almadi, 72, was arrested in 2021 when he arrived in Riyadh to visit his family. [...]
A special rapporteur says the state may have committed violations amounting to international crimes. [...]
Black Watch veteran Kevin Stacey served three tours of Iraq, despite being seriously injured by a bomb. [...]
KABUL, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan marked the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Thursday, the Supreme Court of the war-torn country announced. During Ramadan, the fasting observers excluding children stay away from eating, drinking, smoking and conducting sexual relations from… [...]
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 23 (ANI): Recently, a high-level Pakistani delegation comprising Defence Minister, DG ISI, and Foreign Secretary visited Kabul and held discussions with the Taliban. While both sides were reticent to discuss the outcomes of the meetings, it is evident that the recent spike… [...]
Navobod [Tajikistan], March 23 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 on the Richter scale struck 51 km north-north west of Novobod, Tajikistan on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. Navobod is a town in Tajikistan. The earthquake occurred at 01:37:44 (UTC05:30) and hit… [...]
Geneva [Switzerland], March 23 (ANI): A Pashtun political activist during the 52nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, exposed Pakistan for its close ties with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). In his intervention, Fazal-ur-Rehman Afridi said, "We would like to turn the council's attention… [...]
Geneva [Switzerland], March 23 (ANI): Political activists from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan have informed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) about the serious human rights abuses in the region. While giving an intervention during the 52nd Session of the Council, Nasir Aziz Khan, the… [...]
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 23 (ANI): At least four people have been killed and about 80 others were injured in an earthquake that rocked northeast Afghanistan on Tuesday night, TOLO News reported quoting officials. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said that the earthquake of 6.8… [...]
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 23 (ANI): Kabul's department of security has said that over the last year, 3,927 people have been arrested for various types of crimes, Afghanistan-based TOLO News reported. The majority of the individuals have been arrested on charges of drug dealing, kidnapping and… [...]
The investigation into extrajudicial killings by British troops in Afghanistan was announced last year An independent inquiry into alleged illegal killings by the British military in Afghanistan officially opened with a call for evidence on Wednesday. Investigation chairman Lord Justice Haddon-Cave promised to "do [...]
[allAfrica] Johannesburg -- South Sudan, as the world's youngest country, faces many challenges and uncertainty in achieving peace. Shortly after gaining independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, a civil war broke out in December 2013, and again in July 2016. Citizens are still feeling… [...]
[allAfrica] On International Women's Day, Human Rights Watch (HRW) hosted a Twitter Space meeting looking at the impact of food scarcity on women. Eating Last and Eating Least: The Food Crisis is a Women's Right Crisis put into context the food crisis exacerbated by the… [...]
[Daily News] THE maiden visit of US Vice-President Kamala Harris to Tanzania is expected to bolster bilateral ties between the two countries and promote a number of areas for cooperation, pundits have forecasted. [...]
[Right to Care] Ahead of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day tomorrow, Dr Lucy Connell, TB programme lead at health NPO Right to Care , says, "South Africa has one of the highest TB rates in the world. Right to Care supports SA'S theme for World TB… [...]
[Nyasa Times] President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera says following the devastating effects of Tropical Cyclone Freddy, Malawians cannot afford to mourn with hands folded on, but rather roll up their sleeves and get back to work to rebuild the country for a better tomorrow. [...]
[The Conversation Africa] World TB Day on March 24th will commemorate the day in 1882 when Professor Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the microbial cause of tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis. [...]
[African Arguments] Blantyre -- With the death toll rising and the homeless increasing, Malawi, already grappling with a major cholera outbreak, sends out an SoS. [...]
A Serbian academic says she won’t be intimidated after being branded a “traitor” for conducting academic research with counterparts in Kosovo. [...]
Montenegro’s everlasting-seeming leader Milo Djukanovic will try to mobilize the important minority vote to prevent his likely loss in the second round of presidential elections. [...]
More and more Moldovans are seeking opportunities abroad, but many risk being exploited. [...]
Kosovo and Serbia’s leaders must act urgently on their verbal agreement last weekend to address the issue of finding the remaining missing persons from the 1998-99 war while their ageing relatives are still alive. [...]
Part of the former Heliodrom detention camp in the city of Mostar will be turned into a military museum with 270,000 euros of financial support from the Bosnian Defence Ministry, despite opposition from former prisoners. [...]
Heavy fines imposed on four TV stations for their critical coverage of the government have been condemned as 'absurd' – and as a deliberate attempt to intimidate them in the run-up to general and presidential elections. [...]
Alliance led by the pro-Kurdish HDP party has announced it will not nominate its own candidate for the May 14 presidential elections, hinting at support for Erdogan’s chief rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. [...]
The Hungarian Football Federation's announcement that it will allow fans at international matches to display 'Greater Hungary' maps on flags or banners has prompted Romanian claims of historical revisionism. [...]