CNN — Some of the United Nations’ most senior female officials have been meeting Taliban leaders in Kabul to discuss the ban on female aid workers, as Afghanistan battles famine and poverty. In December the Taliban ordered all local and international non-governmental organizations to stop their female employees from coming to work or risk having […]
Paris/London CNN — Trains and flights were canceled in France, primary schools shut and thousands of police officers deployed as labor unions held nationwide strikes Thursday to protest the government’s plan to raise the retirement age for most workers. Protests in major French cities, including Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes and Nice, brought transport services to […]
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. New York CNN — Investors around the world have been trying to adjust their portfolios to contend with […]
CNN Business — Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former chief operating officer of failed blood testing startup Theranos, is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for fraud, marking an end to the stunning downfall of a high-flying Silicon Valley company that resulted in the rare convictions of two tech executives. The sentencing comes weeks after Elizabeth […]
Hong Kong CNN — For more than five years, Sharapat Mohamad Ali and her brother Mohamad had been unable to contact their family in far western China, where the government has been accused of incarcerating up to 2 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in internment camps. They believe their father and brother are […]
New York CNN Business — Bob Iger was back at Disney headquarters on Monday to meet with employees for the first time since surprising the media world by returning as the company’s CEO last week. Iger discussed multiple issues facing the company including Disney’s current hiring freeze and what he plans to focus on when […]
London CNN Business — Last year, Auckland’s largest real estate company couldn’t sell properties quickly enough to meet demand in New Zealand’s biggest city. Houses were “flying out the door,” said Grant Sykes, a manager at real estate agency Barfoot & Thompson. “There were chin-dropping moments when agents stand around the room and are gobsmacked […]
Bogota CNN — When Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first progressive president, took office in August, he laid out an ambitious agenda. His administration would finally achieve a stable peace with Colombia’s multiple rebel organizations; it would fight inequality by taxing the top 1% and lifting millions out of poverty; and it would abandon a punitive approach […]
New York CNN Business — Investors sleuthing for clues about what the Federal Reserve will decide during its December policy meeting got quite a few this week. But those hints about the future of monetary policy point to an outcome they won’t be very happy about. What’s happening: Federal Reserve officials made a series of […]
CNN — After years of seemingly unstoppable growth, the tech industry is now facing the “ultimate reality check” as it confronts broader economic uncertainty and waves of layoffs, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told CNN on Thursday. “It’s like we’re all in a nightclub and the lights just came on,” Chesky said in an interview on […]