Month: January 2020

(Bloomberg) — Pete Buttigieg’s campaign said the presidential candidate raised more than $24.7 million in the fourth quarter, giving the South Bend, Indiana mayor one of the largest war chests among those fighting for the Democratic nomination. Buttigieg’s money came from 326,000 donors who gave an average of $33, the campaign said in a statement…

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For this end-of-the year installment of “Points of Progress,” we asked six Monitor correspondents to survey their regions and tell us what they saw as the significant steps of progress made there in the past year. What follows is the result.  We began this weekly feature in response to the fact that the news media…

(Bloomberg) — Protesters across India are planning to use the New Year’s eve holiday to throw street parties to continue their fight against the country’s new religion-based citizenship law that they say is discriminatory. Activist and student groups in New Delhi and several other cities have taken to social media asking people to join them…

On Wednesday, cries of “kagaz nahin dikhayenge” (we wont show papers), “Tanasahi nahin chalegi” (we won’t allow dictatorship) rang out at the iconic India Gate in Delhi as protesters took a pledge to defend the constitution and continue to oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new citizenship law. Thousands of Indians brought in the New Year…

By Devjyot Ghoshal and Zeba Siddiqui NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Thousands of Indians ushered in the New Year by demonstrating against a citizenship law despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attempts to dampen protests that have run for nearly three weeks. The protests have rocked India since Dec. 12, when the government passed legislation easing the…

The ousted Nissan boss awaiting trial in Japan on financial misconduct charges has fled to Lebanon, saying he refuses to be “held hostage” by a “rigged” justice system. Carlos Ghosn, who was banned from travelling overseas under his bail conditions, insisted he had not “fled justice” but had “escaped injustice and political persecution”. The 65-year-old’s…

Reuters Former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has fled to Lebanon from Japan, where he faced trial on financial-misconduct charges. It is unclear how Ghosn managed to leave Japan, where he had surrendered his passports after his arrest in November 2018. An official told Japan’s NHK broadcaster that there was no record of Ghosn leaving. Reports…

Thousands of people have fled to beaches on Australia’s east coast to escape the wildfires tearing towards the coast. Around 4,000 people have left their homes in Victoria and have been urged to move into the sea if the blazes around them continue to worsen. Some have been forced to camp on wharves or have…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia deployed military ships and aircraft Wednesday to help communities ravaged by apocalyptic wildfires that have left at least 17 people dead nationwide and sent thousands of residents and holidaymakers fleeing to the shoreline. Navy ships and military aircraft were bringing water, food and fuel to towns where supplies were depleted…