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UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves makes a speech during the Labour Party Conference that is held at the ACC Liverpool Convention Center in Liverpool, UK on September 23, 2024. Anadolu | Getty Images LONDON — U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves will deliver the government’s hotly awaited debut budget on Wednesday, putting to bed weeks of […]
LOS ANGELES — As Shohei Ohtani bolted toward second base, the Dodger Stadium crowd readied for another electric moment on a night that had already featured plenty for the home fans to cheer about. Home runs from Tommy Edman, Teoscar Hernández and Freddie Freeman had the ballpark buzzing in the early going of the Dodgers’ […]
LOS ANGELES — The plastic orange sign, the symbol of the season, remained untouched and upturned on the dugout bench. One by one after Sunday’s 10-5 loss in Game 6 of the NLCS, the vanquished New York Mets retreated into the bowels of Dodger Stadium. On the diamond, celebration raged beneath a fountain of fireworks. […]
British Columbia woke up Sunday to a reshaped political landscape but no clear winner of a provincial election marked by the rise of the B.C. Conservatives from the political fringe to centre stage. Neither the Conservatives, led by John Rustad, nor the incumbent NDP of Premier David Eby reached the 47 seats needed […]
Early one October morning, amid the vibrant sounds of Durga Puja dhaks (drums) resonating throughout Kolkata, 17-year-old Rahul Das embarks on his daily routine — harnessing his two horses to his carriage and driving from the stables in Kidderpore in the city’s south-west to the centrally located Queens Way — around 6.30 a.m. Upon arriving outside the […]
The interest rate on the loans was set at an onerous 13.5 per cent. The two $100 million tranches are also secured over company assets. The second tranche is conditional on Star raising $150 million from investors this year. Loading Star may need $400 million in funding from other sources on top of the $300 […]
Following a chaotic boom period, conflict has left Myanmar’s ruby mines in limbo, due to displacement, road closures and the disappearance of Chinese buyers. By RAJU GAUTAM, EMILY FISHBEIN and HPAN JA BRANG | FRONTIER While the 200-kilometre journey from Mogok to Mandalay typically takes around five hours, for Ko Than Htoo and his family […]