Five out of the six biggest U.S. airlines have raised their checked bag fees since January 2024. Take American Airlines. In 2023, it cost US$30 to check a standard bag in with the airline; today,…
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The Bank of Jamaica is continuing to employ an unorthodox communication strategy for central banks, hosting a lunch-hour concert series. The central bank says the concerts aim to bring together the community, especially pensioners, and…
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Large parts of west and central Africa, as well as some countries in the south of the continent, were left without internet services on 14 March because of failures on four of the fibre optic…
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© Reuters. Investing.com– Oil prices notched a weekly gain Friday despite settling lower amid pressure from a rising dollar as a hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation data stoked fears of a more hawkish Federal Reserve at the central…
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Does the Chinese government have officials inside TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, pulling the strings? And does the storing of data from the popular social media app outside of China protect Americans? These questions appear to…
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The American aerospace giant Boeing has been synonymous with safe air travel for decades. Since the 1990s, Boeing and its European competitor Airbus have dominated the market for large passenger jets. But this year, Boeing…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Yan Dun Jiao 1 bulk carrier in the Vostochny container port in the shore of Nakhodka Bay near the port city of Nakhodka, Russia August 12, 2022.…
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A Home Depot store violated labor law when it disciplined Antonio Morales, the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Feb. 21, 2024. Morales, a Home Depot employee in the Minneapolis area, had drawn the letters…
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Orbiting 400 kilometres above Earth’s surface, the astronauts on the International Space Station live a pretty normal social life, if not for one thing: they happily wear their unwashed clothes for days and weeks at…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: General view of capital Manama, Bahrain, October 30, 2022. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. export credit agency on Thursday voted to approve a $500 million…
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