Category Archives: Economy
Nova Scotia tables deficit budget with major health-care spending boost for 2022-23
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative government is forecasting a $506.2-million deficit in its first budget as it focuses on an election campaign pledge to spend heavily on the province's ailing health system. The $13.2-billion budget for t...
After Russian forces pull back, a shattered town breathes
TROSTYANETS, Ukraine (AP) — The bodies of two Russian soldiers lie abandoned in the woods. Ukrainian forces piled atop a tank flash victory signs. Dazed people line up amid charred buildings to reach for aid. These are the sights in
UK police issue 20 fines over ‘partygate’ virus scandal
LONDON (AP) — British police have issued 20 fines over illegal parties held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff during coronavirus lockdowns — though the recipients don't yet include Johnson, whose hold on power has been threatened by
Live updates: Ukraine leader skeptical of Russian scale back
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed skepticism Tuesday night about Russia’s announcement that it would significantly scale back military operations near Ukraine’s capital and a northern city.
India plans Sri Lanka power project after China’s is shelved
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — India signed an agreement to set up hybrid power projects on northern Sri Lankan islands Tuesday in a deal seen as a strategic victory in its competition with China for influence in the Indian Ocean.
Shanghai lockdown tests ‘zero-COVID’ limits, shakes markets
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities sought to reassure companies and jittery investors on Tuesday as a two-phase lockdown of Shanghai’s 26 million people entered its second day, casting an unusual quiet over the normally bustling center of finance, manu...
Ukraine’s other fight: Growing food for itself and the world
HORDYNIA, Ukraine (AP) — Planting season has arrived in Ukraine. Boot marks stamped in the frozen earth have thawed. But the Pavlovych family's fields remain untouched in a lonely landscape of checkpoints and churches.
Volunteer vote-counters push for Hungary election integrity
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A grassroots civic initiative in Hungary, concerned over the integrity of an upcoming general election, has recruited more than 20,000 ballot counters to observe the high-stakes contest in which nationalist Prime Minister Vikto...
Biden budget has Manchin priorities: Tax rich, cut deficit
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's $5.8 trillion budget for next year would trim federal deficits and boost taxes on the wealthiest Americans. Both could appeal to Sen. Joe Manchin amid Democratic hopes of reviving talks with him over the
Calif. group votes to limit reparations to slave descendants
California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations voted Tuesday to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century, narrowly rejecting a proposal to include all Black peopl...
