The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized two Covid-19 vaccines for children aged 5 and under, opening the door for vaccinating millions of the youngest American children. The agency authorized Pfizer-BioNTech’s (PFE.N), vaccine for children aged 6 months to 4 years, and Moderna Inc’s (MRNA.O) shot for those […]
Day: June 18, 2022
Hungary has discounted the price of gasoline at the pump. But not if you have a foreign license plate. It’s also taxing what it calls “extra profits” of industries including airlines, with carriers like Ryanair and EasyJet increasing ticket prices to cope. The nationalist government argues that it’s trying to […]
Britain is increasingly likely to head into recession over the next year or two amid soaring inflation due to the country’s vulnerability to external shocks, J.P.Morgan economists said on Friday, a day after the Bank of England raised borrowing costs. The BoE raised its benchmark interest rate to 1.25% on […]
Sri Lanka is awaiting official confirmation from India on a new credit line that would allow the cash-strapped nation to have supplies of petrol and diesel for the next four months, Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said on Friday. Sri Lanka is currently facing its worst economic crisis since independence from […]
The United States imposed sanctions Thursday on Chinese and Emirati companies and on a network of Iranian firms that help export Iran’s petrochemicals, a step that may raise pressure on Tehran to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The US Treasury Department said it had imposed penalties on two companies […]
Written by Alan Feuer The January 6 committee’s hearing Thursday, which documented the relentless but unsuccessful campaign by President Donald Trump to pressure Vice President Mike Pence into helping him to reverse his defeat in the 2020 election, swerved wildly at times between wonky discussions of constitutional law and unsettling images […]
British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to the United States to face criminal charges, bringing his long-running legal saga closer to a conclusion. Assange is wanted by U.S. authorities on 18 counts, including a spying charge, relating to WikiLeaks’ release of […]
