A year-round balmy climate is hardly conducive for skiing and ice-skating, but tropical countries are now making their presence felt in winter games. Taking part for the first time ever in the Winter Olympics Games are six countries — five of which are located in warmer climates: Ecuador, Eritrea, Malaysia, […]
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Oil prices firm as global stock markets rebound
FILE PHOTO: The word oil is pictured on an oil bank at a recycling yard in London March 2, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth/File Photo February 13, 2018 By Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Tuesday, lifted by a rebound in global stock markets that followed sharp falls last […]
China will contest any ‘unfair’ U.S. trade measures on steel: think-tank
FILE PHOTO: A worker helps load steel bars onto a truck at warehouse in Tangshan in China’s Hebei Province August 3, 2015. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj/File Photo February 13, 2018 By Manolo Serapio Jr MANILA (Reuters) – China will oppose any “unfair and unreasonable” trade measures by countries such as the United […]
Friend of former South Korea leader jailed for 20 years, Lotte chief arrested
February 13, 2018 SEOUL (Reuters) – The friend of former South Korean leader Park Geun-hye who was at the center of an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the country’s business and political elite has been sentenced to 20 years in jail, a Seoul court said on Tuesday. Prosecutors had demanded a […]
Conservatives lash out at GOP spending binge
The GOP is the party of fiscal responsibility no more. That’s according to some conservatives who are grappling with a Republican-backed spending binge that threatens to generate trillion-dollar deficits for years to come while staining a cherished pillar of the modern-day Republican Party. While President Donald Trump and his allies […]
Lotte Group chairman gets 2 1/2-year sentence for bribery in South Korean corruption scandal
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South Korean woman gets 20-year sentence for crimes linked to influence-peddling scandal that brought down president
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MGM opens Macau casino resort as license renewal looms
MACAU – MGM Resorts is opening a lavish multibillion-dollar casino resort in Macau, in the latest big bet by foreign gambling companies on the southern Chinese gambling haven. Continue Reading Below Las Vegas, Nevada-based MGM Resorts International’s opening Tuesday of its $3.5 billion resort is a high-stakes wager on the […]
Stocks may take a breather after two days of huge gains
Following two huge days of gains, stocks may take a breather today. Continue Reading Below As of 1:15 am ET, Dow futures were lower by 82 points or 0.33 percent to 24,501. S&P 500 futures were down by 8 points or 0.28 percent to 2,647, while Nasdaq futures fell by […]
Rob Porter ex-wife responds to Kellyanne Conway in op-ed
Colbie Holderness, the first wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, may be relieved that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway believes the accounts of Porter’s abuse of her and of Porter’s second ex-wife, Jennifer Willoughby. But she was dismayed to hear that Conway doesn’t think White House communications […]