Swiss politicians are stealthy by design. But last weekend, as Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second-largest bank, and a national institution, tottered on the brink of failure, Bern’s political leadership was uncomfortably thrust into the limelight. Karin Keller-Sutter has been in charge of the Swiss finance ministry for just two months. She […]
Afghanistan’s schools have reopened for the new academic year, but hundreds of thousands of teenage girls remain barred from attending classes as Taliban authorities ban their attendance in secondary school. Education Minister Habibullah Agha confirmed in a statement that schools up to grade six “will currently be open for girls”, […]
Comment on this story Comment One of the more noxious tropes to emerge from our hyper-polarized politics is the idea that those on the other side of the political spectrum are necessarily less-informed than we are. Stupider. This takes lots of forms. Some are pseudo-objective assessments of polls or other […]
This weekly round-up brings you the latest stories from the world of economics and finance. Top economy stories: US raises interest rates by 0.25 percentage points; UBS takes over Credit Suisse; IMF board approves Sri Lanka bailout. 1. US raises interest rates again as it weighs up banking crisis The […]
U.S. stocks reversed losses in late afternoon trading on Friday as markets cap off a bumpy week following the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision on Wednesday and further pressure in the banking sector. The S&P 500 (^GSPC), which fell as much as 1{b56f7a0c6479bc075d08fb7619591a4c4023144d1b4aceb7f3fe2776303deb2f} in early Friday trading, the most in […]
(RNS) — For the most part, religious Americans say their LGBTQ neighbors should be free of discrimination when they are at work, in public or at home. This is true even among groups that oppose same-sex marriage. One place they disagree is over whether businesses — such as cake bakers […]