Politics

The last week of Joe Biden’s first year as president has probably been his worst so far.Inflation hit 7%, the highest level since 1982. Retail sales fell by the most in 10 months. The Supreme Court blocked Biden’s vaccine mandate for most employers. Stocks are starting 2022 in a slump, as investors fret about inflation and rising interest rates.…

What happened today in history (16 December): The birth of Jane Austen and Philip K. Dick, the demise of Colonel Sanders, end of Bangladesh Liberation war and India's victory, discovery of nuclear fission, premiere of James Cameron's Avatar, and more. This day in history (16 Dec): Pakistan Army's Humiliating Surrender Marked the…

NEW YORK, Dec 7 (Reuters) - On a day of high drama for Peruvian politics that saw the president threaten to dissolve Congress before himself being ousted, the Andean country's financial markets absorbed the punch.The Peruvian sol currency and dollar bond prices recovered early losses after President Pedro Castillo was removed in an impeachment…

Map Explainer: The Caucasus Region The Caucasus Region has been engulfed in a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region for decades now. Although flare-ups in the conflict have been recent, the root of the violence harkens back to the 1980s.…

IPMAN President, Chinedu Okoronkwo appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, November 29, 2022. Amid the resurgence of queues at filling stations across the country, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) says the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has a sufficient supply of…