He is the party chairman as well as the prime minister," 69-year-old Oli said. plunged into a political crisis on December 20 after President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved the House and announced fresh elections on April 30 and May 10 at the recommendation of Prime Minister Oli, amidst a tussle for power within the ruling Communist Party (NCP). Oli's Press Advisor Surya Thapa last week said the prime minister will not resign immediately and implement the Supreme Court's verdict against him by facing Parliament. NCP Vice-president Bamdev Gautam, who maintained a balance between Oli and his rival Prachanda, last week urged the prime minister to step down.

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The company’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, said that Twitter wants to increase its number of daily active users by at least 64 percent, to 315 million, and at least double its annual revenue over the next three years. WeWork’s former chief executive, Adam Neumann, is set to receive a $480 million settlement in his drawn-out legal dispute with SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate that bailed out the company after Mr. Neumann nearly drove it into bankruptcy in 2019. House Democrats forged ahead with the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, which includes a measure to bump up the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. But a nonpartisan Senate official ruled that the wage increase violated the budgetary rules that govern what can be included in the bill.

British finance minister said he would not try to fix the public finances overnight, days before he announces a budget plan that is expected to pile more borrowing on top of nearly 300 billion pounds ($418 billion) of COVID spending and tax cuts. He also would not say if he would stick to his Conservative party's promises from 2019 - before the pandemic - not to raise the rates of income tax, value-added tax or national insurance contributions, the three biggest sources of tax revenue. The Sunday Times said Sunak was planning to raise income tax revenues by 6 billion pounds by freezing the point at which people start paying the basic rate of income tax and the threshold at which they begin paying the higher rate."You talked about interest rates and you're right interest rates have been at very low levels, which does allow us to afford slightly higher debt levels," Sunak said.

Charlotte Bennett, a health policy adviser in the Democratic governor's administration until November, told The Times Cuomo asked her inappropriate questions about her sex life, including whether she ever had sex with older men.I never made advances toward Ms. Bennett nor did I ever intend to act in any way that was inappropriate, Cuomo's statement said. Cuomo, however, said he had authorized an outside review of Bennett's allegations. Garvey said in a statement that Bennett's allegations did not include a claim of physical contact or inappropriate sexual conduct and Bennett was consulted regarding the resolution, and expressed satisfaction and appreciation for the way in which it was handled.

Security forces in made mass arrests and appeared to use lethal force on Sunday as they intensified their efforts to break up protests a month after the military staged a coup. There were reports of gunfire as police in Yangon, the country's biggest city, fired tear gas and water cannons while trying to clear the streets of demonstrators demanding that the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi be restored to power. The security forces' clear escalation in use of lethal force in multiple towns and cities across the country in response to mostly peaceful anti-coup protesters is outrageous and unacceptable, and must be immediately halted, said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director for New York-based Human Rights Watch. On Saturday, security forces began employing rougher tactics, taking preemptive actions to break up protests and making scores, if not hundreds, of arrests.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity expanded in February at a slower pace than a month earlier, hitting the lowest level since last May and missing market expectations after brief COVID-19-related disruptions earlier in the year.A sub-index for employment in the official PMI stood at 48.1 in February, down from January's 48.4 as firms laid off more workers and at a faster pace. China's factory gate prices rose on year in January for the first time in a year, as months of strong manufacturing growth pushed raw material costs higher. In the services sector, activity expanded for the 11th consecutive month but at the slowest pace in a year.

“If you need a car, use car sharing,” Mr. Würzner said in an interview at Heidelberg’s Baroque-style City Hall, which was nearly deserted because of the pandemic.“If you can’t use car sharing because you’re living too far outside and there is no mass transportation, then use the car, but just to the train station and not to downtown.”Heidelberg is at the forefront of a movement that is probably strongest in Europe but has a presence in plenty of communities around the world, including American cities like Austin, Texas, and Portland, Ore. Vows of fossil fuel abstinence by carmakers in the last month, including G.M., Ford Motor and Jaguar Land Rover, are a tacit admission that they will no longer be welcome in cities at all unless they radically clean up their acts.

Nearly 40,000 small businesses had closed in the state by September — more than in any other state since the pandemic began, according to a report compiled by Yelp. Acknowledging that the pandemic has “heavily impacted our small businesses,” the director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, Dee Dee Myers, pointed to several state programs that offer them help. They include the California Small Business Covid-19 Relief Grant Program, the California Rebuilding Fund and the Main Street Hiring Tax Credit. Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, said in a statement that Mr. Newsom had “proven that he is woefully unqualified to lead the state of California.”

It's nearly dawn and Zainab Amjad has been up all night working on an oil rig in southern She lowers a sensor into the black depths of a well until sonar waves detect the presence of the crude that fuels her country's economy. The women, both 24, are among just a handful who have eschewed the dreary office jobs typically handed to female petroleum engineers in Instead, they chose to become trailblazers in the country's oil industry, donning hard hats to take up the grueling work at rig sites. To work in the field, Amjad, the daughter of two doctors, knew she had to land a job with an oil company and to do that, she would have to stand out. Protests outside oil fields led by angry local tribes and the unemployed can disrupt work and sometimes escalate into violence toward oil workers.

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — With the nation’s coronavirus vaccine supply expected to swell over the next few months, states and cities are rushing to open mass vaccination sites capable of injecting thousands of shots a day into the arms of Americans, an approach the Biden administration has seized on as crucial for reaching herd immunity in a nation of 330 million. The sites are one sign of growing momentum toward vaccinating every willing American adult. In addition to using mass sites, President Biden wants pharmacies, community clinics that serve the poor and mobile vaccination units to play major roles in increasing the vaccination rate. With only about 9 percent of adults fully vaccinated to date, the kind of scale mass sites provide may be essential as more and more people become eligible for the vaccines and as more infectious variants of the virus proliferate in the United States.

Education budgets were cut by 65 per cent of low and lower-middle income countries after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic while only 33 per cent of high and upper-middle income countries did so, according to a report by the World Bank. The sample includes three low-income countries (Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Uganda); 14 lower-middle income countries (Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Tanzania, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); 10 upper-middle income nations (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Jordan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Turkey); and two high-income countries (Chile, Panama)."The following countries have education shares below 10 per cent and therefore are likely to have other main financing sources besides budget assigned by the central government: Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, India, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Russia," the report stated. On the other hand, households in low and lower-middle income countries tend to contribute a greater share of the total education spending than those in upper-middle and high-income countries, the report pointed out.