BEIJING — The shockwave from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reverberated in the world’s financial markets Thursday. London’s benchmark FTSE index was down 3.3% in midday trading, while both the CAC-40 index in Paris and Frankfurt’s DAX index were 5.5% lower. Markets in Asia and Australia all closed in negative territory in the aftermath of Russia’s attacks […]
The third Monday of February is known as Presidents’ Day in the United States. For nearly 100 years, America honored its first president, George Washington, on February 22. That was his birthday. But the date was not a national holiday until 1968. That year, the U.S. Congress passed a measure known as the Uniform Monday Holiday […]
The fast-spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus in Australia has led to its highest single-day death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. The health ministry posted 74 COVID-19 deaths Tuesday, with the fatalities spread across Australia’s three most populous states: 36 deaths in New South Wales, 22 deaths in Victoria and 16 in Queensland. The new […]
U.S. President Joe Biden said “I don’t think COVID is here to stay” one day after six of his former health advisers urged Americans to learn to live with coronavirus in a “new normal” and his administration to take a different approach to combatting it. Writing Thursday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the […]