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Businesses brace for prolonged unrest in South AfricaBusinesses brace for prolonged unrest in South Africa
The News Xenophobic unrest in South Africa has become a painful cost of doing business, executives warned, signalling that companies are bracing for prolonged instability in a country eager to draw fresh investment. Just over a week after mass protests froze parts of Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria — shuttering retail ...
Debatable: AI’s impact on the economyDebatable: AI’s impact on the economy
what’s at stake Artificial intelligence is already making its mark on the US economy as workers put new tools to use and planned initial public offerings power the stock market. One of the central questions vexing lawmakers, meanwhile, is what the technology’s eventual impact on the US jobs market will ...
US lacks scores of ambassadors in AfricaUS lacks scores of ambassadors in Africa
The US has left more than 40 African nations without a Senate-confirmed ambassador, hampering Washington’s efforts to engage in security and diplomatic missions across the continent. Some 41 African countries currently lack a confirmed envoy, including Nigeria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, and Sudan. While there are vacancies ...
Gay Wyoming Republican sues members of his own party for ‘pedophile’ slurGay Wyoming Republican sues members of his own party for ‘pedophile’ slur
The News Reid Rasner, an openly gay Republican running for Wyoming’s sole House seat, is spending the final stretch of the campaign on a project he didn’t expect: suing members of his own party for defamation. On Friday morning, Rasner will settle one case against an Iowa man who called ...
Top Democrats slam Trump over crypto ahead of voteTop Democrats slam Trump over crypto ahead of vote
The top Democrats on five Senate committees are rebuking President Donald Trump for making $1.3 billion off of cryptocurrency as lawmakers prepare to take up a long-awaited digital assets bill. “The disclosures heighten concerns about the president pushing Congress to pass crypto legislation in favor of the very industry he’s ...
We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals I remember interviewing a North Atlantic right whale expert years ago. He was a practical, science-minded man. But as we discussed a female whale that had lost her calf, he ...
The Nato summit exposed the real source of Trump’s powerThe Nato summit exposed the real source of Trump’s power
It comes from his willingness to violate all norms, rules and laws – and leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces At the Nato summit just ended, Trump lashed out at other Nato members, saying he was “very disappointed with Nato” and asking: “Why are we spending hundreds of ...
It’s not me, it’s them: Platner goes down snarling with graceless exit videoIt’s not me, it’s them: Platner goes down snarling with graceless exit video
The populist Democrat nominee for Senate in Maine bowed to the inevitable but turned his farewell into a pity party “Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you ...
‘What’s more American than baseball?’: World Cup brings fans, chants and verve to the national pastime‘What’s more American than baseball?’: World Cup brings fans, chants and verve to the national pastime
The crossover in the American sports calendar has made for a compelling collision of cultures, from Scots in Boston to a new English folk hero in Atlanta First they sang for Harry Kane. Then they sang for Michael Harris II. The Atlanta Braves center-fielder is not someone many Major League ...