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On Wall Street overnight, the S&P 500 edged down by less than 0.1 per cent. It was a tiny loss, but it still marked the first back-to-back drop for the index in a month and a half. The Dow Jones slipped 6 points, or less than 0.1 per cent. Like the S&P 500, it’s been […]
Two Hamas sources said the Palestinian operator group was moving towards appointing a Doha-based ruling committee rather than a single successor to its chief Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli troops last week. “The Hamas leadership’s approach is not to appoint a successor to the late chief, the martyr Yahya Sinwar, until their next […]
Genaro Garcia Luna, the official who for several years led Mexico’s fight against the country’s violent drug trade, was sentenced to more than 38 years in US prison for accepting bribes from the cartels he was supposed to fight. The US district judge Brian Cogan announced the sentence at a hearing in Brooklyn federal court […]
India and Canada have expelled each other’s diplomats over the 2023 murder of Sikh activist and naturalized Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was fatally shot in his pickup truck in British Columbia. Canada identified India’s top diplomat in the country as a person of interest in the case, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying that India […]
The Curtiss-Wright Corporation came into being in 1929 through the merger of companies started by pioneering aviators Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers. Within the new company, the Curtiss-Wright airplane division made airplanes while the Wright Aeronautical Corporation focused on engines. By the time of World War II, Curtiss-Wright held more defense contracts than any […]