New finance minister Jeremy Hunt scrapped Prime Minister Liz Truss’s economic plan and scaled back her vast energy subsidy on Monday, launching one of the biggest U-turns in British fiscal policy to stem a dramatic loss of investor confidence.
Though the exercises had been planned before Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, they take on heightened significance as the Kremlin’s growing threats to use nuclear weapons have heightened fears and tensions in Europe.
Jake Cronenworth capped a five-run Padres seventh with a two-out, two-run tiebreaking single on Saturday night as the San Diego Padres rallied from a 3-0 deficit to defeat the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3, eliminating the National League West champions from the playoffs.
The U.S. Justice Department on Sunday moved to dismiss an antitrust indictment against two former Pilgrim’s Pride Corp executives who were the remaining defendants in a conspiracy prosecution that has failed to secure any convictions.
In late September, humanity altered the orbit of a celestial body for the first time ever.
A fire at Iran’s Evin prison late on Saturday killed four detainees and injured 61, state media reported, as anti-government protests sparked by a woman’s death in police custody continued on Sunday, including at several universities.
No civilians were wounded when a gunman fired on a military base in Russia’s Belgorod region, but the violent attack did leave over ten soldiers killed in another setback for Russia’s Ukraine campaign.
Argentina’s Economy Minister Sergio Massa said on Sunday the government will give workers tax relief from November by raising the threshold at which income tax is charged, as the country battles with soaring inflation.
The coming week figures to be historic for both Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the rest of the world.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest against soaring prices as weeks of strikes for higher wages at oil refineries spurred demands for a general strike.
