Women’s prize for fiction goes to Susanna Clarke’s ‘mind-bending’ Piranesi

Read More The Women’s Prize for Fiction Women’s prize for fiction goes to Susanna Clarke’s ‘mind-bending’ Piranesi Clarke’s follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was praised by judges as ‘a truly original, unexpected flight of fancy’ Wed 8 Sep 2021 14.22 EDT Susanna Clarke, who published her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell […]

Emma Raducanu marches into US Open semis with easy win over Bencic

Read More US Open Tennis 2021 Emma Raducanu marches into US Open semis with easy win over Bencic 18-year-old beats Olympic champion Belinda Bencic 6-3, 6-4Raducanu fourth qualifier in history to reach a slam semi Wed 8 Sep 2021 13.51 EDT Last modified on Wed 8 Sep 2021 14.21 EDT For all that Emma Raducanu […]

Biden admin’s response to Taliban ‘excuse’ for grounded flights slammed by lawmakers

Post Content Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters Wednesday that the Taliban have kept planes grounded in Kabul because some evacuees lack required visa documentation, but Republicans on the Hill are frustrated with that “excuse” from the administration when it comes to getting evacuees out of Afghanistan. A spokesperson for Michigan Republican Rep. Peter […]

Former Afghan president explains abrupt exit from country amid Taliban takeover

Post Content Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani defended his decision to flee Kabul in August as the Taliban closed in. Ghani said in a statement Wednesday that he had left at the “urging of the palace security” who had advised him that “to remain risked setting off the same horrific street-to-street fighting the city had […]

Arizona divesting from Ben & Jerry’s parent company over settlement boycott

Read More WASHINGTON – The State of Arizona has divested all public funds from Unilever, the parent corporation of Ben & Jerry’s, in light of the ice cream company’s decision to halt sales in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. This marks the most significant action taken to date on the state […]

Easy Money Policies to Continue Post-COVID: Japan’s Central Bank Chief

Read More The head of Japan’s central bank told local outlet Nikkei on Sept. 8 that accommodative monetary policy would continue even after the pandemic subsides in a bid to hit a 2 percent inflation target, a goal that has been undershot for years. Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan, said that the […]