It would be reasonable to expect the worst for Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s embattled president. Two weeks after Maduro’s re-inauguration, opposition leader Juan Gauidó has declared himself the country’s rightful president. The power struggle follows a failed military mutiny against Maduro, whose eas...
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Taiwan 4Q18 economic growth hits 10-quarter low Digitimes Taiwan's economic growth rate for fourth-quarter 2018 is estimated at 1.76%, lower than the 2.02% forecast in November 2018 and hitting t
Newcastle United legend Nobby Solano has warned Miguel Almiron to expect a rude awakening at St. James' Park.
Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown has said more than once that he’ll sit down for an interview to share his side of the messy end to the 2018 season, but his public statements have mostly come through social media to this point. That changed a bit on Thursday. Brown was attending an event in Atlanta [more]
BOCHUM, Germany (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp boss Guido Kerkhoff on Friday sought to drum up support among small shareholders for a plan to break up the steel-to-elevators group, facing criticism about the lack of concrete details over how the move will lead to better results.
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Hector Bellerin has lifted the lid on his rise from playing on the streets of Spain in a Real Betis kit to finally calling the Arsenal No 2 shirt his own in a new video for BT Sport.
Jennie Wetter, The Hill
Myra Adams, RealClearPolitics
BSP president Mayawati called the Budget presented Friday by the BJP-led government 'jumlebazi', or empty rhetoric, that did not address the ground realties. She claimed that economic disparities had grown during the last five years with only a handful of capitalists benefiting, instead of farmers and the poor. "This is wrong and against the interest of the country," she said in a statement. "The last Budget of the BJP government before the elections is far from the ground reality and the bitter truth... Читать дальше...
The proposals of the interim budget evoked mixed reaction from the industry of West Bengal, with one section hailing it as "a courageous policy statement" and another terming the announcements as election package. The Calcutta Chamber of Commerce said the budget was friendly to the farming and rural sector and growth oriented in so far as infrastructure, industry and MSME sector is concerned. RP Sanjiv Goenka group chairman Sanjiv Goenka said, "This certainly is not merely an Interim Budget... Читать дальше...
Marc Landy, RealClearPolitics
Frontier Services Group specialises in providing security, mostly for Chinese companies, in unstable and dangerous regions around the world. However, its founder Erik Prince is mainly known for being the founder of private military company Blackwater, whose contractors were involved in the infamous killing of 14 unarmed Iraqi citizens in 2007.
In a slight relief to the people from the ongoing cold wave conditions, the minimum temperature rose by a few notches at most places in Punjab and Haryana, the meteorological department said Friday. Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, recorded a low of 9.4 degrees Celsius, three notches above normal limits, the MeT officials said. In Punjab, Pathankot recorded a low of 10.2 degrees Celsius, up three notches against normal limits, while Amritsar, too, recorded above normal minimum at... Читать дальше...
Mollie Hemingway, Federalist
This odd aversion to thinking about the best interests of the nation when pushing a conspiracy theory about treasonous collusion with Russia is dangerous.
Reactions from a test screening for Captain Marvel have emerged, and one character reportedly stole the show.
Niraj Antani, an 27-year-old Indian-American Republican state representative, has announced that he will be running for the Ohio state Senate in 2020. Antani represents Miamisburg in the 42nd Legislative District. He is currently serving a third term in the Ohio House of Representatives. He will run for the open State Senate District 6, currently represented by Senator Peggy Lehner whose term is ending and also she is retiring, Antani was quoted as saying in a statement by a local radio station on January 30. Читать дальше...
Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
After reading many popular books, coming to a scholarly tome can be a shock to the system. This is especially the case when said academic volume contains lots of information (not all do, believe me!). David Brakke’s Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity has been on my reading list for quite some time. One of the perils of being a renegade academic is that you have no university library at hand and I’m not sure I want to reveal this side of myself to the ...
Go-Jek, the Southeast Asia ride-hailing company, raised a little more than $1 billion in a recent round of fundraising. Bloomberg, citing a person with knowledge of the financing, reported the funding came from Google, JD.com and Tencent. With the latest fundraising round, Go-Jek has a market valuation of around $10 billion. Other investors who participated in the […]
Terming the interim budget as progressive and positive, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Friday said the government's "pathbreaking" budget has provided a narrative of India's continued development growth.Kant underlined that the interim budget presented by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal in the Lok Sabha, has provided relief to the middle-class people, the farming community and the unorganised sectors, which will be beneficial for everyone in the long-run."The budget is for the middle class and farming community. Читать дальше...