The Foreign Ministry noted that the event evidenced the mutual aspiration to improve the international legal basis in the area of use of informational and communications technologies through trust-building, dialogue and rapprochement of positions in close cooperation with developing countries
The boyfriend of the New York woman who was killed last Saturday after pulling into the wrong driveway said in an interview that they “thought we were at the right address.” In an interview with NBC News published on Wednesday, Blake Walsh told the media outlet that he and three other passengers — including his...
Braintree District Council is bringing legal action over the proposed use of RAF Wethersfield in Essex.
WEDNESDAY, April 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For people with the abnormal heartbeat atrial fibrillation, a procedure called catheter ablation may do more than return the heart to its normal rhythm. It may also ward off mental decline and dementia…
A director working on an Agatha Christie play is suing a theatre for more than £3 million after a fall through an unopened trapdoor left her 'partially paraplegic', her lawyers say
RR v LSG: De Kock has to wait or bit more time, says KL Rahul after leaving out star opener
Koval Systems deal with Swedish company will create 60 jobs.
Adam N. Michel
As Congress searches for policies to meet our current economic challenges, maintaining full expensing—which has begun to phase out—should be top of the list. Full expensing protects business investment from the costs of inflation and supports economic growth by reducing barriers to new investments.
Expensing (also called 100 percent bonus depreciation) allows businesses to deduct the full cost of new investments in the year they are made. Without expensing, investment costs must be deducted over time. Читать дальше...
Earth Week (running up to 22 April) sees a host of UK fashion brands marking the occasion by committing to ensure their “viscose supply chain is free of vital forests" by joining the non-profit CanopyStyle initiative.
NASA expects the decommissioned Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday after 21 years in orbit.
Baywatch star Carmen Electra turned up the heat in a very racy S&M-inspired ensemble to plug her racy OnlyFans account in a spiked leather dog collar and rubber underwear
The expectation stems from the fact that Modi had only spoken with the Dalai Lama to convey greetings on his 86th birthday in July 2021 and wished him a long and healthy life
"Is there really a difference between indica and sativa or is it all in the head?"
Читать дальше...BJP leaders Umesh Jadhav, P. Rajeev, Raju Gowda, MTB Nagaraj, actress Shruthi and others campaign for Vijayendra
The European Commission on Tuesday (18 April) proposed an update to the EU's bank crisis management and deposit insurance (CMDI) framework.
CHICAGO (AP) — Early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade Wed.:
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Netflix’s DVD business was once so big it was 1.3 percent of all US mail. | Photo by Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
Netflix was never going to be a DVD shipper forever. But to win the streaming wars, it might need to recapture what made DVDs by mail so special.
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A federal watchdog is investigating whether the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration under chief Anne Milgram improperly awarded millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to hire her past associates. That's according to people familiar with the probe who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Among the contract spending under scrutiny by the Justice Department’s Inspector General is $4.7 million to hire people Milgram knew from her days as New Jersey’s attorney general and as a New York University law professor ... Читать дальше...
Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank and her family in the now famous Amsterdam annex, is brought to life by Bel Powley in the new Nat Geo limited series.
Crude oil prices inched lower today, after the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported an inventory draw of 4.6 million barrels for the week to April 14. This compared with a modest build in crude oil inventories for the previous week, at 600,000 barrels. For the week before that, however, the EIA had estimated a sizeable draw of 3.7 million barrels. In fuels, the EIA estimated mixed changes in inventories for the week ending April 14. Gasoline inventories added 1.3 million barrels during that week... Читать дальше...
A tiny cat who was taken into the care of an animal rescue has been put to sleep after she was found with a chronic condition.
Photo by Emilee Chinn/Cincinnati Reds/Getty Images
The team had been called the Reds since their admission to the National League. The “Red Scare” of the 1950s, however, made the owners nervous about having a team called the Reds. So they added “legs” to the moniker, because apparently Redlegs were clearly NOT communists, whereas as Reds were suspect (their thinking, not mine).
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