A small dip in the price of gasoline as we head into the first weekend of December. In its weekly adjustment Friday morning, the Nova Scotia Energy Board dropped the price of a litre of regular self-serve by three cents to 136.0. The cost of diesel has not changed, with the price holding steady at […]
IMF approves $1.2 billion for Pakistan from bailout, citing progress on economic and climate reforms
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday approved the release of $1.2 billion to Pakistan, giving the cash-strapped country a fresh boost as it works to recover from one of its worst economic crises in years. The IMF in a statement said its executive board completed two reviews of Pakistan’s economic programs, clearing […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will road-test his claims that he’s tackling Americans’ affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania — shifting an argument made in Oval Office appearances and social media posts to a campaign-style event. The trip comes as polling consistently shows that public trust in Trump’s economic leadership […]
Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery, announced Monday, places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of management limbo. There was some relief at CNN with last Friday’s announcement that Netflix was buying Warner’s studio and streaming businesses, since the cable network […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares mostly fell Tuesday after U.S. stocks pulled away from their record heights, while U.S. futures edged higher. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index was the main outlier, gaining 0.1% to 50,655.10. Chinese markets declined as investors watched for news from the Central Economic Work Conference, an annual planning meeting of the ruling […]
Just over 2,500 Nova Scotia Power customers on Peggys Cove Road woke up Friday morning in the dark after an outage knocked out electricity for those living along the shore of St. Margaret’s Bay. The utility’s outage map showed it running along the road from Upper Tantallon to East Dover. Over 25,00 NSP customers were […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A fire tore through an office building in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on Tuesday, killing at least 17 people, police said. Flames engulfed the seven-story building, sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky and causing panic among nearby residents and workers in a neighborhood in Central Jakarta. The Associated Press
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s government on Tuesday declared a national emergency over security risks posed by balloons from Russia-allied Belarus that have violated its airspace in recent weeks. Tensions between Lithuania and Belarus have escalated after meteorological balloons from Belarus forced Lithuania to repeatedly shut down its main airport in the past weeks, leaving […]
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Getting ready for the holiday season has never been stressful for Christel Dauwe — after all, her holiday period lasts all year long in her Christmas ornament shop in the Belgian city of Antwerp. Her collecting began in her teenage years, and she now has more than 64,000 ornaments in her […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police have been deployed in mostly empty streets in Tanzania’s major cities on Tuesday ahead of planned protests that the government has preemptively declared illegal, urging citizens to stay home for Independence Day celebrations in the Eastern African nation. Activists have called for protests over the ruling party’s victory in a […]