TEHRAN, Iran — Iran moved on Tuesday to enforce a single exchange rate to the dollar, banning all unregulated trading after the country’s currency, the rial, hit an all-time low. The country’s senior vice-president, Eshaq Jahangiri, was quoted by state TV as saying that the official “price of the U.S. dollar will be 42,000 rials […]
GENEVA — China has filed a World Trade Organization complaint challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff hike on imported steel and aluminum, the trade body said Tuesday. The tariff spat is one element of a wide-ranging trade dispute between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government. Trump also has threatened to increase duties on $50 […]
MOSCOW — The ruble plunged for the second day in a row Tuesday following fresh U.S. sanctions against Russia. The Russian currency traded above 63 to the dollar for the first time since Dec. 2016, down by more than 4.5 per cent. The euro was worth more than 78 rubles for the first time since […]
VANCOUVER — Protesters who have loudly voiced their opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion are taking credit for Kinder Morgan Canada’s decision to pause work on the controversial project. “Every day the protests continue, it gets harder and harder to imagine (the pipeline) going ahead,” said Karen Mahon, campaigns director with the environmental group […]
BERLIN — Public sector workers are staging a strike for better pay at German airports, local transportation companies and nursery schools. The walk-out Tuesday has forced German airline Lufthansa to cancel some 800 flights and is expected to paralyze traffic in many of the country’s western cities. Affected airports include Frankfurt, which is Germany’s biggest, […]
BERLIN — Public sector workers are staging a strike for better pay at German airports, local transportation companies and nursery schools. The walk-out Tuesday has forced German airline Lufthansa to cancel some 800 flights and is expected to paralyze traffic in many of the country’s western cities. Affected airports include Frankfurt, which is Germany’s biggest, […]
Lost amid a flurry of Facebook announcements about privacy settings and data access is a much more fundamental question: Is Facebook really changing its relationship with users, or just tinkering around the edges of a deeper problem — its insatiable appetite for the data it uses to sell ads? CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is scheduled […]
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WASHINGTON — The Latest on Facebook’s privacy scandal and Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony (all times local): 1:45 a.m. Experts are questioning whether Facebook is fundamentally changing its relationship with users or just tinkering around the edges of its deep need for user data to sell ads. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before Congress on Tuesday […]
PANAMA CITY — President Donald Trump’s company appealed directly to Panama’s president to intervene in its fight over control of a luxury hotel, even invoking a treaty between the two countries, in what ethics experts say was a blatant mingling of Trump’s business and government interests. That appeal in a letter last month from lawyers […]