President Donald Trump on Sunday slapped new travel restrictions on citizens from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad, expanding the list of countries covered by his original travel bans that have been derided by critics and challenged in court. Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia were left on the list of affected countries in a new […]
Read moreElections in Germany and New Zealand are expected to be in focus during Monday’s Asian trading day. The German election results on Sunday weighed on the euro, while New Zealand’s poll outcome pressured the Kiwi dollar. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party looked set to remain the largest party in the next German […]
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Italy's anti-establishment party is softening its stance on Europe as a new leader is appointed
The new leader of the Five Star Movement (M5S) party in Italy told CNBC that he would welcome support from rivals in a coalition after next year’s election, but added that he wouldn’t give away cabinet seats to receive the necessary backing. The 31-year-old Luigi Di Maio was appointed at the party conference this weekend […]
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Euro slips after German election reveals surprising far-right support
The euro slipped in early Asian trading on Monday after Germany’s election showed surging support for a far-right party that left Chancellor Angela Merkel scrambling to form a governing coalition. The euro was trading down 0.4 percent at $1.1906 and looked set to test support around $1.1860 as liquidity picked up through the session. Merkel […]
Read moreWhat’s not tolerable is the cup-holder situation. Rather than fixed cup-holders, the Miata lets you move them between a storage cubby, a mounting spot behind the gear shift or hanging off of the center tunnel into the passenger area. I learned, in a deeply inconvenient and unpleasantly sticky way, that this cup-holder can’t really hold […]
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Merkel on track for fourth term as German chancellor; far-right party set to enter parliament for first time
An exit poll on Sunday evening showed that Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc will be the largest party in the next German parliament, but early indications point to a worse-than-expected majority for the German chancellor. Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister-party the Christian Social Union (CSU) won 32.5 percent of the vote, […]
Read moreIn Manhattan’s bustling and picturesque North of Little Italy (Nolita) neighborhood — one of the city’s hippest and popular residential areas – rows of cozy restaurants and decorative street almost make random passersby wonder if they’ve been transported into an Instagram photo. As it happens, much of that is by design. According to business search […]
Read moreTheir complaints flow on Reddit forums, on video game message boards, on private Facebook pages and across Twitter. They argue for everything from male separatism to an end to gender diversity efforts. Silicon Valley has for years accommodated a fringe element of men who say women are ruining the tech world. Now, as the nation’s […]
Read moreI bought one of the nicer Apple Watch Series 2 models last year with a metal band and the steel casing, because I liked that it looked more premium than the aluminum sport models. I had absolutely no intention of upgrading to the new model, but I just did. The Apple Watch Series 2 was […]
Read moreThe CEO who pulled the final plug on the neo-Nazi web site Daily Stormer said he removed it from his company’s Internet service to protect his firm’s business in the run-up to a potential initial public offering (IPO). “We were worried that people would say, ‘We won’t work with you anymore,'” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince […]
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