Biden wants border help as Mexico sees historic migrant surge

October 20, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. EDT Migrants sleep on mattresses placed in the courtyard of the Casa de la Caridad Hogar del Migrante shelter, because it is at maximum capacity, in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. (Victoria Razo for The Washington Post) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico — … Read more

AP PHOTOS: Surge in gang violence upends life in Ecuador

ByRODRIGO ABD Associated Press October 13, 2023, 12:02 AM A girl runs past soldiers patrolling Duran, the sister city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) The Associated Press DURAN, Ecuador — Dismembered limbs lie on the street next to playing children. Prisons are arenas of gang warfare. Bloodshed keeps schools shut … Read more

As EV sales surge and cars get heavier, parking garages have to change

Charging points at an underground car park in England. The number of EVs on our roads is increasing. Peter Titmuss/UCG | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Driving is changing. Today, hybrids and pure electric vehicles are a common sight around the world, and the overall size and heft of cars — whether they’re fully … Read more

WTI, Brent prices surge to highest level in more than a year

The RN-Tuapsinsky refinery operated by Rosneft Oil Co. in Tuapse, Russia. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oil prices surged to their highest level in over a year during Asian trading hours, after crude stocks at a key storage hub fell to their lowest since July last year. Crude inventories in Cushing, Oklahoma fell … Read more

A International Surge in Cholera Outbreaks Might Be Fueled by Local weather Change

The worldwide cholera surge drove a vaccine scarcity proper when nations wanted it most. Malawi previously used the cholera vaccine for prevention, however “now when you don’t have an outbreak, you don’t get the vaccine,” stated Otim Patrick Ramadan, WHO incident supervisor for regional cholera response in Africa. In response to the scarcity, the worldwide … Read more

Hong Kong property shares surge as China takes motion to revive property sector

Residential buildings stand on the Metro City growth, collectively developed by CK Asset Property Holdings Ltd., Nan Fung Worldwide Holding Ltd. and MTR Corp., in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. Anthony Kwan | Bloomberg | Getty Pictures Hong Kong-listed property shares surged on Monday, main good points on the Dangle Seng Index … Read more

Lionel Messi joins the MLS, single-game ticket costs surge

Soccer famous person Lionel Messi’s transfer to Main League Soccer has made an impression on ticket gross sales, as costs for late-season video games within the U.S. have surged by over 1,700% on the secondary market, in contrast with final 12 months. Messi signed a blockbuster contract with the membership Inter Miami CF in July … Read more

Twitter desktop app sees surge in outages as Meta’s Threads takes off

On this photograph illustration, Threads brand seen displayed on a smartphone with the Twitter profile of Elon Musk within the background. Elon Musk is the present proprietor of Twitter. Meta will launch a social media app known as “Threads”, which will probably be a rival to Twitter. “Threads” is Instagram’s text-based dialog app. Mateusz Slodkowski … Read more

Company bankruptcies surge on excessive rates of interest, uncertainty

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell departs after talking throughout a information convention following the Federal Open Market Committee assembly, on the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2023.  Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Photos The Federal Reserve plans to maintain mountaineering rates of interest to stem inflation, which suggests a rise … Read more