BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers on Monday affirmed their support for the nuclear deal with Iran, after the Islamic Republic began enrichment work at its Fordo site in a fresh act of defiance that seems likely to spell the end of the painstakingly crafted international agreement. At talks in...
Perfect Storm of Change, Debt and Brexit Sank Thomas Cook
FRANKFURT, Germany — British tour operator Thomas Cook fell victim to multiple setbacks including shifting travel habits, the rise of online booking sites, the sinking pound and even unusually hot weather that encouraged fewer Northern Europeans to travel. Specific problems of its own, like a 1.6 billion-pound ($2 billion) debt...
Trump Official: Statue of Liberty Poem Refers to Europeans Only
WASHINGTON — The acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services says the inscription on the Statue of Liberty welcoming immigrants into the country is about "people coming from Europe." Ken Cuccinelli said Tuesday on CNN that the poem referred to Europeans coming from "class-based societies where people were considered wretched...
Facebook's Libra Currency May Flourish in Analog World
NEW YORK — Europeans and Americans have their Visa and Mastercards. For everyone else, here comes ... Libra? Facebook's new Libra digital currency is aimed at a huge potential market for financial services — the entire developing world, with billions of people in areas such as India and Sub-Saharan Africa,...
Opinion: Why I Don't Celebrate the Columbus Day Lie
“In fourteen hundred ninety two, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue …” I learned that little ditty when I was 4 years old, and for many more years, I believed it. I believed that Columbus “discovered” America. It wasn’t until I was in my teens that I learned that story...