Traders placed bets totalling more than $7 billion right before major US announcements relating to the Iran war, prompting accusations of rampant corruption in Washington. The “highly unusual” trades have added to calls for regulators to step up their scrutiny of senior US government officials, including President Donald Trump. Since ...
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Brazil looks to lengthen weekend and improve worker conditionsBrazil looks to lengthen weekend and improve worker conditions
Brazil moved to cut its working-week to five days from the current six, becoming the latest Latin American country to push for improved worker conditions. The region has some of the world’s longest working hours, with laborers there often clocking more than 2,000 hours a year compared to around 1,700 ...
Mali attacks raise alarm bells in WashingtonMali attacks raise alarm bells in Washington
The News A sweeping jihadist offensive across Mali is raising concerns in Washington about the security of the US embassy in Bamako and the safety of Americans in the West African nation. Last month, Al Qaeda-affiliated group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the separatist Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) launched ...
South Africa’s top court revives Ramaphosa impeachment probeSouth Africa’s top court revives Ramaphosa impeachment probe
The News South Africa’s top court ordered parliament to restart an impeachment inquiry into President Cyril Ramaphosa, ruling that lawmakers acted unlawfully when they blocked the process in 2022. The majority ruling injects fresh uncertainty into a multiparty coalition government and marks the first time in post-apartheid South Africa a ...
Jumia leans on China imports as Nigeria becomes top marketJumia leans on China imports as Nigeria becomes top market
The News African e-commerce company Jumia plans to maintain a strategy that has ramped up inventory supply from Chinese vendors and made Nigeria its largest market, to achieve profitability at the end of next year, CEO Francis Dufay told Semafor. Jumia reported 87% year-on-year growth in the volume of items ...
Military force has got the US nowhere with Iran – here is what a realistic negotiation would look like | Christopher S ChivvisMilitary force has got the US nowhere with Iran – here is what a realistic negotiation would look like | Christopher S Chivvis
Making a deal means the US finding a position that doesn’t threaten the Iranian regime’s survival. The alternative is a prolonged and damaging stalemate After months of war, the US has struggled mightily to compel Iran to restore stable passage through the strait of Hormuz, let alone accept Washington’s core ...
Trump’s looming defeat in Iran is a personal and political crisis | Robert ReichTrump’s looming defeat in Iran is a personal and political crisis | Robert Reich
Trump’s ego cannot accept a humiliating loss, and we are already seeing the effects of his failure playing out We are witnessing what happens to a person who is consumed with the need to dominate, but cannot. Iran is unlikely to give in. It can withstand the economic pressure of ...
‘This is not democracy’: voting rights activists shocked by speed of US states moving to stifle Black voters‘This is not democracy’: voting rights activists shocked by speed of US states moving to stifle Black voters
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and other southern states stun residents with all-out charge to redraw congressional maps to favor white voters after supreme court ruling The reaction speed of southern states to the US supreme court’s decision last week in Louisiana v Callais has been breathtaking for voting rights activists. One ...
Guillermo del Toro: ‘When you see a UFO, it causes a crack. The mystery of the universe rushes towards you’Guillermo del Toro: ‘When you see a UFO, it causes a crack. The mystery of the universe rushes towards you’
The great Mexican director is in England to pick up a BFI fellowship – and buy a haunted house. He talks gods, ghosts, monsters and almost being destroyed by the Weinsteins When Guillermo del Toro goes to the cinema, he buys three seats. “I’m an expansive fellow,” he says, occupying ...
When women choose non-monogamy: ‘It’s an opportunity for more integration’When women choose non-monogamy: ‘It’s an opportunity for more integration’
Though open marriage is often imagined as something men want, women also choose this relationship structure – with all its rewards and challenges It’s late afternoon, and Lucy texts her husband’s girlfriend. The sound of cartoons plays somewhere in the living room, and she absentmindedly wipes a smear of jam ...