WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has stopped an Obama-era rule requiring large companies to report how much they pay workers by race and gender. The rule was intended to help close the persistent wage gap between men and women, as well as between racial groups, through greater pay transparency. In […]
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GETTY Britons are expected to boycott Spanish holidays when the tourist tax doubles in 2018 The new charge, an average of €3 per day, will apply to Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera and will bring in an extra €120 million a year but business leaders are furious. They say it […]
There was no reliable estimate of those still missing in the second such collapse in a little over a month, which came as Mumbai recovered from two days of floods brought by heavy monsoon rains. A total of 46 people have been pulled from the rubble since the collapse early yesterday morning, […]
Some 779,000 Texans have been told to leave their homes and another 980,000 fled voluntarily amid dangers of new flooding from swollen rivers and reservoirs, according to Department of Homeland Security acting secretary Elaine Duke. The city of Beaumont, about 80 miles east of Houston, had its water supplies cut […]
It was Monday morning, time to infuse his patient’s immune cells back into his body so they could kill the melanoma tumors threatening his life. But the entrance to Dr. Adi Diab’s apartment parking garage in Houston was blocked by water from Hurricane Harvey’s floods and he couldn’t get out […]
Almost no fuel tankers have sailed from Texas for Latin America in six days. Terminals and refineries shut by the storm are unlikely to fully recover for weeks. The United States is the world’s largest net exporter of refined petroleum products, shipping around 5.05 million barrels of fuel per day. […]
The mining ministry said in a statement that, after consulting with President Michel Temer, it would suspend all procedures related to mining rights in the recently abolished mineral reserve for 120 days while it collects public feedback. “Starting now, the ministry will initiate a wide debate with society about alternatives […]
But for the boatmen on the junks cruising the calm expanse of Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay, another growing Chinese presence in the region is very welcome indeed. The number of Chinese tourists in Vietnam has surged this year, just one sign of the growing economic ties between two long-time enemies. […]