September 2019

India-US trade : Is Trump right about India’s high tariffs?

Claim: India imposes very high tariffs on imports – some of the highest in the world – according to US President Trump. Verdict: It’s true that average tariffs in India are much higher than in the world’s biggest economies, and they are also among the highest compared with other emerging economies. But other countries have […]

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One Brother Stabbed the Other. The Journalist Who Wrote About It Paid a Price.

Mr. Biancardi wrote about how the court had ruled against him. That drew attention from others who asked for articles about themselves to be taken down. One of those demands was from Vittorio Pecoraro, now in his 80s, who was stabbed by his brother, Umberto, in the 2008 seaside restaurant brawl. The brothers were arrested

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Thomas Cook: ‘Planes are already being impounded’

Thomas Cook has collapsed after last-minute negotiations aimed at saving the holiday firm failed. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said the tour operator has “ceased trading with immediate effect”. It has also triggered the biggest ever peacetime repatriation aimed at bringing more than 150,000 British holidaymakers home. The tour operator’s failure puts 22,000 jobs

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