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Ireland head coach Andy Farrell admits resurgent Italy pose a “serious threat” to his side’s aspirations of Six Nations glory. The world’s top-ranked nation head to Rome in title-winning form on the back of resounding bonus-point wins over Wales and…
NEW YORK — Can the Federal Reserve keep raising interest rates and defeat the nation's worst bout of inflation in 40 years without causing a recession? Not according to a new research paper that concludes that such an “immaculate disinflation”…
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish authorities on Friday said preliminary work has started to build housing for people left homeless by the massive earthquake that hit parts of the country and neighboring Syria, killing tens of thousands. Murat Kurum, the minister…
CHICAGO — State labor officials are investigating an Illinois-based pharmaceutical company’s decision to abruptly close all of its operations, including its out-of-state locations in New Jersey, New York and Switzerland, and to lay off hundreds of workers with almost no…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Dutch parliamentary inquiry released a damning report Friday into the government's handling of lucrative natural gas extraction that caused a string of earthquakes in the northern province of Groningen, saying that authorities put profits before…
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s struggling banks on Friday decided to suspend their strike, which started earlier this month, for one week, at the request of caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati. The Association of Banks in Lebanon did not give further details…
