Grocery Stores Cut Hours, Services as Omicron Infects Workers
Some U.S. supermarkets are reducing hours and cutting services as Covid-19’s Omicron variant infects cashiers, baggers and stockers, deepening grocery...
Month: January 2022
U.S. Jobless Claims Rise to 230,000
Filings for jobless claims rose to a seasonally adjusted 230,000 last week, an increase of 23,000, as a tight U.S....
French teachers strike in protest at Covid-19 school protocols
At least 62% of high school and middle school teachers are also reported to be striking, according to the union...
Anti-vaccine protesters try to storm Bulgaria’s parliament
Tensions rose an hour after about 3,000 people gathered in front of the parliament building, demanding the lifting of a...
China’s Startups Are Awash With Money as Beijing Shifts Focus to ‘Hard Tech’
Unlike in previous years, when most Chinese tech funding went to internet startups in e-commerce, the bulk of the money...
Assad’s regime on trial for crimes against humanity. The court is about to rule on most senior official yet
Anwar Raslan, a senior regime official, headed the investigation unit at a notorious Damascus detention center known as Branch 251....
PC Shipments Faced Tough Fourth Quarter, but Pandemic Supplies a Brace
Shortages and bottlenecks weighed on personal-computer shipments in the fourth quarter, but the pandemic-induced revival of the PC market is...
Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kiev and former heavyweight boxer, says ‘we prepare for any case’ over tension with Russia
"If escalation goes up ... We have to be ready to defend our independence and integrity of our country --...
US says Russia made no commitments to de-escalate Ukraine crisis after latest round of talks
Sherman told reporters that Wednesday's meeting between NATO and Russia ended with a "sober challenge from the NATO allies to...
Is Inflation a Microeconomic Problem? That’s What Biden’s Competition Push Is Betting
There’s a saying on Wall Street that the stock market is also a market of stocks: an aggregation of many...
Eight soldiers in Burkina Faso arrested for alleged plot
One of the alleged plotters tipped off the authorities on Saturday to an alleged "plan to destabilize the institutions of...
‘Zero-Covid’ China fights to contain Omicron as restrictions tighten
Tianjin, which detected China's first community spread of Omicron on Saturday, is rolling out a second round of mass testing...
Medicare to Pay for Biogen’s New Alzheimer’s Drug in Clinical-Trial Patients
Medicare officials said they would cover Biogen Inc.’s BIIB 2.64% controversial Alzheimer’s disease drug Aduhelm on the condition that patients...
Fed’s Powell Says Economy No Longer Needs Aggressive Stimulus
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell called high inflation a “severe threat” to a full economic recovery and said Tuesday the...
Denmark’s spy chief imprisoned for allegedly leaking classified information
Lars Findsen, the head of Denmark's foreign intelligence service, was named as one of four people arrested in December over...
Amazon Warehouse Workers in Alabama to Hold Second Union Vote
The National Labor Relations Board said the new election will be held by mail, with ballots being mailed to employees...
Planet Fitness to Buy Franchisee Sunshine Fitness for $800 Million
A Planet Fitness staffer in Inglewood, Calif., preparing for reopening last year after being closed for the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo:...
Global experts are very worried about the future, Davos survey finds
More than 84% of global experts surveyed by the World Economic Forum are worried or concerned about the outlook for...
US providing $308 million in humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan
The humanitarian assistance and vaccines come months after the US completed its military withdrawal from the country. The Biden administration...
China appoints former paramilitary chief as new Hong Kong garrison commander
Peng, who holds the rank of major general, was previously the deputy chief of staff of China's paramilitary police force,...
