Tag: Business
Bonus pay for essential workers varied widely across states
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — For putting their health on the line during the coronavirus pandemic, prison guards in Missouri got an extra $250 per...
Israel freezes funds it says aid attackers’ families
JERUSALEM — Israel's Security Cabinet on Sunday froze nearly $200 million in tax transfers to the Palestinians that it said represented the amount of...
South Africa ramps up vaccine drive, too late for this surge
JOHANNESBURG — Some in wheelchairs, others on canes, hundreds of South Africans waited recently on the ramps of an open-air Johannesburg parking garage to...
‘Black Widow’ soars to pandemic box office record
Even with an option to watch “Black Widow” at home, audiences went to the movie theater in pandemic record numbers this weekend to catch...
Historic Warsaw store, seeking rebirth, hit by pandemic
WARSAW, Poland — The Jablkowski Brothers Department Store was once a Warsaw landmark that revolutionized shopping and brought goods to a modernizing society in...
12 killed as bus carrying migrants overturns in east Turkey
ISTANBUL — A minibus carrying migrants overturned and caught fire in eastern Turkey, killing 12 people and injuring 20 others, the state-run Anadolu news...
Slovenia water law referendum seen as test for government
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Slovenians were voting Sunday in a referendum on changes to the country's water management law, in a test for the government...
For top #MeToo legal duo, a pandemic year brings no pause
She’d just upended her life by going public with sexual harassment allegations against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. And Charlotte Bennett, a former aide...
Yellen: Compete on economic strengths, not low tax rates
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that deterring the use of tax havens will let countries compete on economic fundamentals — instead of...
Demonstrators in Havana protest shortages, rising prices
Thousands of Cubans marched on Havana’s Malecon promenade and elsewhere on the island Sunday to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus...