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KYIV, Ukraine — A massive barrage of Russian strikes hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities on Monday morning, knocking out water and power supplies in apparent retaliation for what Moscow alleged was a Ukrainian attack on its Black Sea Fleet over the weekend. Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s power…
GENEVA — The U.N. labor agency warned Monday that job vacancies and employment growth are expected to decline worldwide in the fourth quarter as the war in Ukraine and “multiple and overlapping crises” have led to shrinking wages, higher debt and yawning inequality. Gilbert Houngbo, the new director-general of the International Labor Organization, called on…
NEW YORK — Stocks closed broadly lower on Wall Street Monday, a downbeat finish for major indexes in an otherwise banner October for the market, including the best month for the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1976.The S&P 500, the benchmark for many index funds, notched an 8% gain for the month, it’s first monthly…
HONG KONG — Workers who assemble Apple Inc.’s new iPhone have walked out of their factory in northern China to avoid COVID-19 curbs after some coworkers were quarantined following a virus outbreak.Videos circulating on Chinese social media platforms showed people said to be Foxconn workers climbing over fences and walking down a road laden with…
BEIJING — Chinese manufacturing weakened in October, an official survey showed Monday, adding to downward pressure on the economy as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a slowdown.A monthly purchasing managers’ index declined to 49.2 from September’s 50.1 on a 100-point scale where numbers below 50 indicate activity contracting, according to the government statistics…
Ten years ago, after a gunman massacred twenty children and four adults in a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school, radio host Alex Jones offered his listeners a reassuring counter-narrative. America’s rabid gun culture was not to blame for the deaths of so many young children, nor was the Republican Party, which has spent decades loosening the…
In the end, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won his runoff against Jair Bolsonaro for the presidency of Brazil, becoming the first Brazilian politician to be democratically elected president three times, whilst condemning Bolsonaro to become the first sitting Brazilian president to be denied a second term (Brazil’s longest serving head of state, Getúlio Vargas,…
On Thursday, Joe Biden stopped in Syracuse to tout a new semiconductor plant. It was a visit that, in many ways, summed up a growing part of the Democrats’ closing midterms message: that Biden was not just bringing back manufacturing jobs to the United States but also loosening China’s grip on key technologies, such as…
Nothing in particular was happening on July 31, 2021, that should have given Kevin McCarthy’s words any special weight. It was a Saturday. The House of Representatives was on summer break. McCarthy was in Nashville at a fundraising event, and the state’s House Republicans presented him with an oversize gavel. Then he “joked”: “I want…
In 1688, the Swiss doctor Johannes Hofer identified a new disease “originating from the desire to return to one’s native land.” Sufferers sank into a chronically “sad mood,” he wrote, their faces lifeless and haggard. Hofer called the new illness “nostalgia,” fusing a pseudoscientific neologism out of the Greek words for “return” (nostos) and “pain”…
