The Waltons are the world’s wealthiest family, worth $238 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index The Walton family is shedding light on its stock picks, revealing it held almost $5 billion in equities at the end of June through a little-known firm that helps invest its Walmart Inc. fortune. […]
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Amazon will be required to pay the employees lost wages according to the agreement. New York: Amazon has reached an agreement with two employees who accused the e-commerce giant of dismissing them in retaliation for their activism, both parties said Wednesday. Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham, who led an advocacy […]
JERUSALEM: Israeli police fatally shot a Palestinian woman who tried to stab officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday, police said. And in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces shot dead a male “terrorist” who opened fire on them during clashes prompted by an overnight arrest operation, police said. According […]
SYDNEY: Melbourne’s Covid-19 cases surged to record levels on Thursday with officials blaming illegal home gatherings to watch a key sporting event for the spike as a hard lockdown to combat the spread of the Delta variant neared two months. Authorities in Victoria, home to Melbourne, estimated nearly a third […]
KABUL: The Taliban on Thursday violently cracked down on a small women’s rights demonstration, firing shots into the air and pushing back protesters, AFP journalists witnessed. A group of six women gathered outside a high school in eastern Kabul demanding the right for girls to return to secondary school, after […]
BERLIN: Germany is headed for weeks, if not months, of protracted coalition haggling as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives insisted Monday on trying to form a government even after losing to the Social Democrats in a tight race. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who led the Social Democrats’ (SPD) campaign, said Europe’s […]
BANGKOK : Thailand’s economy is forecast to grow 1per cent this year, down from the 2.2per cent projected in July, hit by a spike in COVID-19 cases and a delayed reopening to visitors, the World Bank said on Tuesday, as the country fights its biggest virus outbreak to date. Southeast […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Elections and a constitutional referendum scheduled for the coming months in Haiti have been postponed indefinitely after the Monday dismissal of members of the electoral administration, plunging the country into further uncertainty. Since their September 2020 appointment by late president Jovenel Moise, who was assassinated in July, the nine […]
SYDNEY : Australian retail sales dived for a third straight month in August as half the population were trapped in coronavirus lockdowns, though reopening is in sight as vaccinations race toward world-beating levels. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday showed retail sales fell 1.7per cent in August […]
MELBOURNE:Hess Corp sees oil markets remaining tight in the short term and supporting strong prices as demand recovers more quickly than supply post-pandemic with U.S. shale producers holding back capital spending, its president said on Monday. The oil producer expects a V-shaped recovery in demand and a U-shaped recovery in […]