Some Brits turn to gambling, crypto to make ends meet, charity warns
LONDON — Britain’s worsening cost-of-living squeeze is pushing some folks into playing and cryptocurrency investments in last-ditch makes an attempt to make ends meet, a...
Why is there a worldwide oil-refining crunch?
Drivers all over the world are feeling ache on the pump with gas costs hovering, and prices are surging for heating buildings, energy technology, and...
Unilever vowed to scrap polluting plastic packets, then fought to keep them
COLOMBO — Two years in the past, Unilever plc Chief Government Alan Jope mentioned his firm would do away with the tiny plastic packets it...
UK inflation soars to 40-year record of 9.1%
LONDON — Hovering meals costs pushed British client value inflation to a 40-year excessive of 9.1% final month, the very best fee out of the...
US to propose rule to limit nicotine levels in cigarettes
THE BIDEN administration plans to propose a rule to set up a most nicotine degree in cigarettes and different completed tobacco merchandise in an try...
G20 chair Indonesia to push for peace with Ukraine, Russia visits
JAKARTA — Indonesian President and G20 chairman Joko Widodo will go to counterparts in Ukraine and Russia subsequent week and press for a peaceable decision...
US Senate advances first significant gun legislation in decades
Picture by Marc Nozell/Flickr/CC BY 2.0WASHINGTON — The US Senate took an preliminary step in the direction of passing the nation’s first main gun-control legislation...
South Korea reports first confirmed monkeypox case, steps up monitoring
SEOUL – South Korea on Wednesday confirmed its first case of monkeypox virus and pledged to strengthen monitoring and response methods because it raised the alert stage to “caution” for the...
Inside the hangar at the center of the $1-billion Airbus-Qatar jet dispute
DOHA — Two high-tech Airbus A350 jets sit idle with their home windows taped and engines lined in a floodlit hangar in the Gulf, hobbled...
Biden expected to call on Wednesday for suspending the federal gas tax, source says
WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden is expected on Wednesday to call for briefly suspending the 18.4-cents a gallon federal tax on gasoline, a source briefed on the plan advised Reuters on Tuesday. Mr. Biden mentioned Monday he was contemplating whether or not...