March and April are critical months for ocean carriers looking to ink annual freight contracts with shippers, including the world’s biggest retailers, but this year contract season is turning into a waiting game. The $2,500 spread between spot market rates and long-term freight contract rates for Asia to U.S. West Coast containers has reached its … Read more
Play video content TikTok/ @Ben306069 Staring down an angry silverback gorilla is not where anyone wants to be — but a Fort Worth zookeeper did, and the terrifying scene was all captured by zoo patrons. The video has blown up on TikTok, and it’s easy to see why — Elmo, a 34-year-old male silverback, charged … Read more
Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, arrives on day one of the European Union (EU) leaders summit at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, May 30, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hungary accused the European Union of blackmail after a leaked document reportedly suggested that the bloc plans to sabotage Budapest’s … Read more
Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a “national divorce” between Democratic and Republican states. The Georgia Rep. suggested it in response to the standoff over migration at the Texas border. The dispute between GOP Texas Gov. Abbott and the federal government has been intensifying. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a “national divorce” between red and … Read more
C.E.O. of Tesla, Chief Engineer of SpaceX and C.T.O. of X Elon Musk takes the stage during the New York Times annual DealBook summit on November 29, 2023 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Tesla is hiring a Nordic public policy expert as the U.S. electric vehicle giant’s bitter dispute with … Read more
Comment on this storyComment The Biden administration raced to deliver military support to Israel on Monday in its spiraling conflict with Hamas, as U.S. officials vowed to account for Americans killed or potentially held hostage in the Gaza Strip. A senior defense official said the Pentagon was “surging support” to its closest Middle Eastern ally … Read more
German Chancellor OIaf Scholz is vowing that his coalition authorities will shortly resolve a dispute over little one advantages that has marred makes an attempt to place months of damaging public infighting behind it FILE – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends the cupboard assembly of the German authorities on the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment When the leaders of NATO nations collect in Lithuania this week, President Biden and his closest allies will endeavor to ship Russia a forceful message: that the West is united in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s battle in Ukraine. However jeopardizing their present of cohesion might be among the identical … Read more
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president, has warned that Moscow’s confrontation with the West will final many years and that its battle with Ukraine might turn out to be everlasting. Medvedev, as soon as seen within the West as a liberal moderniser, has emerged as one in every of Russia’s … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment Because the mud settled on essentially the most severe problem in many years to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority, Washington and its allies struggled to make sense of a head-spinning collection of historic occasions that noticed mercenary forces race up a freeway to inside 120 miles of Moscow on Saturday, then … Read more