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Stuck in a Dentist’s Chair, and Other Blackout Tales From Spain and Portugal

admin30 April 2025

Even as electricity was restored across Spain and Portugal after a daylong blackout, residents tried to make sense of 18 hours of the “insanity.”

Jane Gardam, Witty Novelist of a Waning British Empire, Dies at 96

admin30 April 2025

“The Queen of the Tambourine,” “Old Filth” and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era.

European Anti-Tourism Groups Plan June 15 Disruptions

admin30 April 2025

Driven by rising rents, crowds and what many see as neighborhood degradation, activists are calling to continue the kinds of protests that erupted last summer.

España y Portugal vuelven a ver la luz tras el apagón generalizado

admin30 April 2025

Volvió la electricidad a la mayor parte de los dos países tras un lapso sin suministro que interrumpió gran parte de la vida cotidiana. La causa se sigue investigando.

G.M. Withdraws Profit Forecast as Trump Tariffs Take a Toll

admin30 April 2025

General Motors also said its profit in the first three months of the year fell 7 percent from a year earlier.

UPS Says It Will Cut 20,000 Jobs in Efficiency Drive

admin30 April 2025

The move comes as President Trump’s tariffs are reducing shipping volumes and is in addition to 12,000 job cuts last year.

Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour Remixes American History, and Her Own

admin30 April 2025

The last time Beyoncé performed “Daddy Lessons,” the stomping, biting number from her 2016 album, “Lemonade,” was at that year’s C.M.A. Awards, in a blistering rendition alongside the Dixie Chicks (now the Chicks). Not everyone in country music ...

¿Quién es el cardenal Tagle, aspirante al papado que sigue los pasos de Francisco?

admin30 April 2025

Luis Tagle de Filipinas es conocido como el “Francisco asiático”. Pero se le ha criticado por no hablar lo suficiente sobre la brutal guerra contra las drogas y los abusos sexuales cometidos por clérigos en su país.

Shadowy Crypto Companies Make Inroads in U.S. Under Trump

admin30 April 2025

Last month, Paolo Ardoino, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency company Tether, joined business executives and U.S. lawmakers for a private lunch at the Willard, a luxury hotel near the White House. For years, Tether had faced accusations that ...