Tag: Government policy
UN Security Council votes on monitors of Libya cease-fire
<p>UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council is voting on a draft resolution that urges all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and...
German high court overturns Berlin rent price cap
BERLIN — Germany's highest court ruled Thursday that a cap on rent prices implemented last year by Berlin's left-wing state government is unconstitutional and...
Turkish central bank maintains key rate unchanged at 19%
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s central bank on Thursday kept a key interest rate unchanged at 19%, in its first rate decision since the surprise...
Syria devalues its local currency against the U.S. dollar
BEIRUT — Syria devalued the official price of its local currency on Thursday two days after the central bank governor was sacked, state media...
EU’s Borrell voices solidarity with US in SolarWinds hack
BRUSSELS — The European Union' foreign policy chief expressed “solidarity" with the U.S. Thursday in the wake of the so-called SolarWinds hack, a breach...
UN Security Council votes on monitors of Libya cease-fire
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council is voting on a draft resolution that urges all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and...
UN envoy: South Sudan has potential, needs to hold elections
<p>UNITED NATIONS — David Shearer said Wednesday he’s leaving the top U.N. job in South Sudan convinced the world’s youngest nation has the potential...
Former Turkish prime minister Yildirim Akbulut dies aged 85
ANKARA, Turkey — Yildirim Akbulut, who served as Turkey's prime minister during the First Gulf War and also oversaw an influx of ethnic Turkish...
Conservatives propose revised sex ed rules in LGBTQ pushback
PHOENIX — Two years after Arizona lawmakers repealed a ban on any HIV/AIDS instruction that “promotes a homosexual lifestyle" as they faced a lawsuit,...
Washington state governor OKs bill banning for-profit jails
OLYMPIA, Wash. — One of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails would be shut down by 2025 under a bill signed Wednesday...