Tag: Financial crisis
Experts: Spend opioid settlement funds on fighting opioids
As a possible $26 billion settlement with opioid producers looms, some public health experts are citing the 1998 agreement with tobacco companies as a...
Cuban leaders beef up police patrols after rare protests
HAVANA — Cuban police are out in force on the country's streets as the president is accusing Cuban Americans of using social media to...
French official warns Lebanese leaders of upcoming sanctions
BEIRUT — A French Cabinet minister criticized Lebanese leaders on Tuesday, warning them of upcoming sanctions from Paris that will target Lebanese officials blocking...
US deficit for current budget year climbs to $2.24 trillion
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government's deficit for the first nine months of this budget year hit $2.24 trillion, keeping the country on track for...
Cuba’s internet cutoff: The go-to tactic for global despots
Cubans facing the country’s worst economic crisis in decades took to the streets over the weekend. In turn, authorities blocked social media sites in...
Demonstrators in Havana protest shortages, rising prices
Thousands of Cubans marched on Havana’s Malecon promenade and elsewhere on the island Sunday to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus...
Lebanon caretaker premier pleads for aid as crisis worsens
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister appealed on Tuesday on the international community to save his country from “death and demise” as multiple crises...
Feds dropping case against former Wilmington Trust execs
DOVER, Del. — After being dealt a stunning setback by an appeals court, federal prosecutors in Delaware have declined to retry four former executives...
Pope, Lebanese Christian clerics pray for end to crisis
ROME — Pope Francis welcomed Lebanon’s Christian religious leaders to the Vatican on Thursday for a day of prayer amid fears that the country’s...
Greece: Fugitive far-right former lawmaker arrested
ATHENS, Greece — A leading member of Greece’s extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party has been arrested in Athens, nearly nine months after he disappeared...