[ad_1] Companies did all they could to encourage their workers back to the office after the pandemic. There were free meals, unlimited snacks, pilates classes, social events, subsidised travel costs, and some offices even installed doggy daycare facilities for workers who got four-legged companions during lockdown. But, despite such freebies, many workers continue to prefer to work from home at least some of the time – leading many executives to
[ad_1] Asian stock markets are slumping as the shockwaves from US President Donald Trump's tariffs continue to reverberate around the world.Major indexes from Shanghai to Tokyo and Sydney to Hong Kong plunged when they opened on Monday. "It's a bloodbath," one analyst told the BBC.As a region that manufactures so many of the goods sold globally, Asian countries and territories are being hit directly by the tariffs. They are also
[ad_1] New details about the mostly teenage victims of a violent single-vehicle crash in Santa Ana Sunday morning are emerging. Santa Ana Police Department Officer Natalie Garcia indicated that officers were dispatched to the area of West Segerstrom Avenue and South Townsend Street around 11:30 p.m. on reports of a vehicle that had collided with a tree.Upon arriving at the scene, officers discovered there were six people — five females
[ad_1] PHOENIX (AP) — Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho mother with doomsday religious beliefs who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival, is on trial again. This time, she's accused in Arizona of conspiring to murder her estranged husband.The case has drawn public attention in part because Vallow Daybell, 51, has doomsday-focused religious beliefs. She isn't a lawyer but has chosen to
[ad_1] (Corrects typo in headline) (Reuters) - Shares of Indian automaker Tata Motors sank 8% on Monday after Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which makes luxury cars, paused exports of its British-made cars to the U.S. following President Donald Trump's 25% tariff came into effect. The slide on the day takes the stock's tumble to 20% since Trump announced the import duties on March 26. In that period the benchmark Nifty
[ad_1] The big question as global stock sell-offs point to another week of plunging markets in the US is how much pain President Donald Trump is prepared to inflict to test his tariff theories.Trump said Sunday evening that he’s “open to talking” to world leaders about new deals as he put a brave face on the chaos unleashed by his trade wars after a weekend playing golf at his exclusive
[ad_1] One of Africa’s most famous refugee camps could transform into a city. The Kakuma camp in a remote part of Kenya houses 300,000 refugees. Many rely on aid to survive, and some of them recently protested against shrinking rations. Now Kenya'a government has re-designated Kakuma as a municipality. It's part of broader goal of incorporating refugees more closely into local populations. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] By Jaspreet Kalra and Nimesh Vora MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Indian rupee fell against the dollar on Monday as concerns over the economic spillovers of U.S. tariffs intensified, hurting Asian currencies and leaving rupee bears regretting their recent exits from short positions on the currency. Investors had sharply reduced short bets on the rupee ahead of the announcement of reciprocal U.S. tariffs on April 2, per a Reuters poll,
[ad_1] By Alasdair PalSYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's opposition Liberal Party abandoned on Monday a plan to force government workers to return to the office full-time, as incumbent Labor gained in polls ahead of a May 3 election.Working from home emerged as an election battleground last month after the Liberal Party said it would bar hundreds of thousands of government employees from doing so, in a bid to boost productivity.The policy
[ad_1] A Palestinian teenager with US citizenship was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, Palestinian officials said on Sunday, with the Israeli military saying it shot a “terrorist” who endangered civilians by hurling rocks.The incident is the latest in a surge of violence and near-daily confrontations in the volatile West Bank, where settler violence and clashes between Israeli forces and armed Palestinians have kept
