Good morning, Europe. Today we’re watching: New Zealand cabinet meets: The government meets on Monday following the shootings at two mosques last week that left 50 people dead. The cabinet is set to discuss changes to gun laws. Macron faces renewed pressure: France witnessed scenes of looting and rioting over the weekend in the latest […] Read more
By Terrence Dopp President Donald Trump said he’s ready to veto efforts to block his declaration of an emergency on the southern U.S. border. The Republican-led Senate is scheduled to vote Thursday on legislation that would reverse the declaration, which Trump issued as a way to bypass Congress and secure funding for his border wall. […] Read more
By Katia Porzecanski and Hema Parmar Billionaire Ken Griffin said he’s losing interest in bringing Citadel’s headquarters to New York City because of the political climate that spurred Amazon.com Inc. to abandon plans to build a mega-campus in Queens. “Amazon opting out of New York is heartbreaking,” Griffin said Thursday in an interview with David […] Read more
By Tomas Etzler A controversial Slovak businessman has been charged with ordering the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiancée last year, prosecutors said Thursday. Prosecutor Dusan Kovacik said Marian Kocner, an entrepreneur who was director of an organization that closed in 2017, ordered the murder of Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova. […] Read more
Up to 382 children have been sexually abused by clergy in Poland since 1990, the Polish Catholic Church has revealed. It made the claim as it presented findings of an investigation at a press conference on Thursday. As many as 198 of the victims were below the age of 15, the report said. “This is […] Read more
After a series of historic firsts and long-overdue breakthroughs, 2018 was called “the Year of the Woman.” A record 36 women won seats in the United States House of Representatives in midterm elections in November. Ireland voted to repeal one of the world’s most restrictive abortion bans. Ethiopia appointed its first female president. And women […] Read more
The medical cannabis industry is luring major players, and legal recreational use could bring sky high returns for investors By: Rob Davies To listen to some of the predictions about the future of the cannabis industry, you would think financial analysts had been partaking heavily of the product. The European cannabis market will be worth […] Read more
By Frances Schwartzkopf Swedbank is facing money laundering allegations Swedbank AB regularly topped rankings of Europe’s safest banks half a decade ago. On Thursday, Sweden’s finance ministry told regulators to explain how the venerable institution had become enmeshed in allegations of money laundering. Like Danske Bank A/S of Denmark, Swedbank built its reputation in one of the world’s richest […] Read more
By Elisa Tang WWII veteran Joe Cuba is photographed here with his sign asking for 100 cards for this 100th birthday World War II veteran Joe Cuba had one request for his 100th birthday: to receive 100 birthday cards. To his surprise, he received not 100, but thousands of letters, photographs and gifts from people […] Read more
By Laura Davison and Saleha Mohsin U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin The amount of the average U.S. tax refund increased 1.3 percent last week compared to a year earlier but the combined value of those checks and the number of people receiving the payments continued to drop. The IRS released its data Thursday that compares […] Read more
