Five rockets targetted an airbase in Balad an hour before the airport attack (Representational) Baghdad: A rocket attack on Wednesday evening targeting Baghdad airport, where US soldiers are posted, was carried out with a “booby-trapped drone”, a security official told AFP — a technique increasingly used by pro-Iran groups. An hour earlier five rockets had […]
Day: June 9, 2021
ProPublica Report Has Congress Rethinking How to Tax Superrich
WASHINGTON — A jaw-dropping report by ProPublica detailing how America’s richest men avoided paying taxes has intensified interest in Congress, even among some Republicans, in changing the tax code to ensure that people like Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett pay their fair share. For Republicans, the idea that the tax code should give preferential treatment […]
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G7: What it’s all about in 60 seconds
World leaders, including US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, will meet in a Cornish resort on Friday 11 June for this year’s G7 meeting. The G7 (Group of Seven) is an organisation made up of the world’s seven largest so-called advanced economies. They are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and […]
Biden to Send 500 Million Doses of Pfizer Vaccine to 100 Countries Over a Year
WASHINGTON — President Biden, under pressure to aggressively address the global coronavirus vaccine shortage, will announce as early as Thursday that his administration will buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and donate them among about 100 countries over the next year, according to people familiar with the plan. The White House reached the […]
Iran Presidential Candidate Says He’s Willing to Potentially Meet Joe Biden
The Iranian flag. (Reuters) Abdolnasser Hemmati stressed that an American return to Iran’s tattered nuclear deal was key to any possible relationship amid the wider tensions in the Mideast. PTI Last Updated:June 09, 2021, 19:54 IST FOLLOW US ON: An Iranian presidential candidate said on Wednesday he’d be willing to meet with US President Joe […]
Biden Revokes and Replaces Trump Order That Banned TikTok
TikTok’s woes subsided with Mr. Trump’s election defeat. Though the company is still under scrutiny with the Biden administration’s new executive order, analysts say the dramatic ups and downs for the company will significantly dwindle. Updated June 9, 2021, 7:03 p.m. ET James Lewis, a senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International […]
New York Mets’ Pete Alonso posits that MLB ‘manipulates the baseball’ based on free-agent class
NEW YORK — Mets first baseman Pete Alonso said Wednesday that he disagrees with MLB’s crackdown on pitcher-friendly foreign substances, and that the larger issue facing the sport is the league’s manipulation of baseballs depending on free-agent class — a theory he presented as “fact.” “The biggest concern is MLB manipulates the baseball year in […]
Health Secretary Matt Hancock to address MPs on Covid-19
Health Secretary Matt Hancock will have the chance to address a number of accusations made about him when he answers questions from MPs looking into the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The session comes after the prime minister’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings claimed Mr Hancock should have been fired on several occasions for […]
U.S. asks Mexico to review a second complaint about labor violations in its auto industry.
The Biden administration is invoking provisions in a new trade agreement to ask Mexico to look into accusations of labor violations at an auto-parts plant near the U.S. border. The action, announced Wednesday by the Labor Department and the Office of the United States Trade Representative, follows a complaint by groups including the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the […]