Kingdom announces sharp rise in budget shortfall amid the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Published On 6 May 20266 May 2026 Saudi Arabia has posted a sharp rise in its budget deficit amid declining oil revenues due to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The kingdom’s budget shortfall widened to 125.7…
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After 42 years of slavery, Josiah Henson escaped to Canada, where he wrote a memoir, founded a school and led others to freedom. But his home long bore the name “Uncle Tom,” to the offense of many.
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A can of Coors Light beer and a Ford F-150 pickup truck. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Brandon Bell | Getty Images Aluminum’s surge to multiyear highs in the wake of the Iran war is creating cost pressures for the businesses that manufacture everything from cars to beer cans. Aluminum on the London Metal Exchange…
A Mexico City nightclub has gone viral for charging Americans a nearly $300 cover charge, while citizens from any other country pay just $20 for access, and Mexicans and other Latin Americans pay only $14. The Instagram announcement from the nightclub Japan in the Roma Norte neighborhood has been liked over 26,000 times and received…
Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser’s system folders. Users who have noticed unexplained drops in their available desktop device storage are now discovering that Chrome is installing a 4GB weights.bin…
Kylie Minogue has opened up about her 2005 cancer diagnosis in her new documentary, Kylie. The trailer for the Netflix documentary reveals it will delve into the 57-year-old’s breast cancer diagnosis two decades ago and her subsequent battle to recover her health. The trailer shared headlines from when she was diagnosed, along with photos of…
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Jordanian fighter jets struck what they described as “factories and laboratories” for narcotics in southern Syria on Sunday, highlighting the emergence of Suwayda province as a key hub for the production of Captagon, a highly addictive amphetamine. While the multibillion-dollar Captagon industry was once synonymous with forces linked to the government of former President Bashar…
