ANALYSIS ECONOMY Calls to ‘reglobalise’ as quickly as possible do not offer a desirable route out of this global recession. Rashmi Banga ECONOMY WORLD The pandemic has exposed the fault lines of the hyper-globalised world. The discontents of hyper-globalisation that began in the 1980s include high levels of inequality, rising concentration of rents, declining labour […]
In his four-decade long tenure, Sulzberger Jr. spearheaded the transformation of the newspaper. Reuters MEDIA Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. will retire as chairman and a member of the New York Times Co’s board by the end of December, the newspaper publisher said on Wednesday. Sulzberger Jr., 69, who joined the newspaper in 1978 as a […]
ANALYSIS COMMUNALISM Claim of January 8 plot to time riots with Trump’s visit dropped, Delhi Police now says entire anti-CAA protest was part of ‘terrorist’ plot to engineer large-scale riots ‘at suitable time’, with the ‘conspirators’ seeking to ‘reclaiming… turf’ lost as a result of BJP’s victory in 2019 elections. Siddharth Varadarajan COMMUNALISM New Delhi: The […]
By Alasdair Pal, Nivedita Bhattacharjee NEW DELHI/BENGALURU, India (Reuters) – India’s coronavirus infections surged again on Wednesday, a day after falling to their lowest figure in almost a month. In the last 24 hours, there were 83,347 new cases, with 1,085 deaths, federal health data showed. India, with a population of about 1.4 billion, has been consistently […]
By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) – Ignoring calls for an end to his 26-year grip on power, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was sworn in for a sixth term on Wednesday after an election that the opposition and several foreign governments say was rigged. The ceremony would normally have been publicised as a major state occasion […]
By Riham Alkousaa, Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber BERLIN/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny made his first public appearance on Wednesday after being discharged from a Berlin hospital where Germany said he was being treated for poisoning by a potentially deadly nerve agent. Navalny was flown from Russia to Berlin last month after falling ill on a domestic flight […]
By Joseph Sipalan KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Wednesday he has secured a ‘formidable’ majority from lawmakers to oust Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and form a new government, heralding a fresh bout of political drama in the Southeast Asian country. The power struggle comes at a difficult time for the […]
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s executive launched a contentious plan on Wednesday for overhauling broken migration rules to resolve years of bitterness and provide a better welcome for refugees fleeing the Middle East and Africa. The most sensitive element would de facto oblige each state to host some refugees – something eastern […]
Tensions between the US and China came to the fore of the annual UN General Assembly in New York, with US President Donald Trump blaming China for the spread of coronavirus. He called for China to be held “accountable” for the pandemic. In his speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country had “no intention […]
US President Donald Trump has said he will name his nominee for Supreme Court justice by the end of the week, and urged the Republican-controlled Senate to confirm his choice before the presidential election. The plan has launched a high-stakes battle ahead of the 3 November vote. Mr Trump wants to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, […]
