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The number of people at risk of gender-based violence, including sexual violence, has tripled to more than 12 million since the start of the war. Sudanese women and girls are bear the brunt of a crisis that is entering its third year on April 15th. Acute food anxiety, an astounding proportion of gender-based violence, and limited access to healthcare, education and livelihood opportunities constitute most of the 12 million displaced people both domestically and internationally. Less than two years later, the number of people at risk of gender-based violence tripled to 12.1 million. Cases of conflict-related sexual violence remain highly…
Augusta, Ga. — There was a moment in the second round of the 2024 Masters when Scotty Scheffler and Rory McIlroy were only a few feet apart in the literal sense. They were separated from the world in a figurative sense. On top of Hill No. 11, peering into the surface below, the two stood around Amen Corner as if the wind had been blown away, amidst the day of wild and unfriendly scores.Schaeffler escaped his approach to green fat and left at par. McIlroy’s attempts swelled into the high sky. He could see it sink into a watery grave,…
Nikkei plummets over 5% after reboundJapan’s Nikkei has now tumbled more than 5% while gold hit another record high as continuing tariff jitters hit Asian stocks in early trade on Friday.The Nikkei 225 benchmark index was off 5.4%, having jumped 9.1% on Thursday after Donald Trump’s 90-day tariff reprieve. Other markets also reversed many of the previous day’s gains, with South Korea’s Kospi in Seoul off 1.64% and, as just posted, Australia down more than 2%.Oil and the dollar also slid on fears of a global slowdown in economic activity, while gold hit a new record. The yen – another…
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, testified in the HART Building on December 6, 2023, before the Senate Bank, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee entitled Annual Surveillance of Wall Street Companies.Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. |Getty ImagesAs days have passed since President Donald Trump announced the tariffs to be cleaned last week, a growing sense of uncertainty has begun to permeate Wall Street.With stocks plunged and even the safe shelter of the US treasury sold, investors, executives and analysts began to worry that core assumptions from the first Trump presidency might no longer apply.Among the market genocides, the world’s…
April 10, 2025, 09:06 PM ETSunrise, Fla. – Brad Merchand is a professional hockey player and a professional charge. He’s excellent at hockey. He might have a better chirp.Chirp, loosely defined in hockey terms, is insult. Wise. To your opponent, you might mean (and maybe you would). To my teammates, not that much.After Merchand scores the first goal for the new team, we take us to the Florida Panthers locker room Thursday night. It was my first time scoring in the NHL for someone other than the Boston Bruins.Teammate Evan Rodriguez was asked what he thought of his goal.”He’s a…
Authorities said six people, including three children, were killed after a helicopter carrying tourist families crashed into New York’s Hudson River. The five family members were from Spain, and the sixth was a pilot, New York Mayor Eric Adams told reporters Thursday. Everything was on a helicopter during the collision. “Our hearts come out in our families,” Adams said.New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tish said the victim’s identity will not be released until family members are notified. The cause of the crash is under investigation.Video footage of the incident shows a helicopter falling upside down from the sky and splattering…
This version of the article first appeared on CNBC’s Inside Wealth Newsletter. This is Robert Frank, our weekly guide to Net-Worth Investor and Consumer. Sign up to receive future editions directly in your inbox. Wealthy investors had the best trade over the past week. I’ve done very little. Many hedge funds and institutions have been selling for the past week, while wealthy private investors mostly sat tightly or bought a bit. Interviews with several top executives at Wealth Management suggest that unlike the 2020 or 2008 crash, they felt they had less pressure on sales over the past week. Some…
Bangkok, Thailand – Aung, a high school English teacher, thought it was time to leave Myanmar on the day the military generals who took over the country strengthened enforcement of the long dormant collection laws they drove. It was the end of January, more than 11 months after the general announced plans for widespread conscription to deal with battlefield escape and battlefield losses to armed groups fighting the 2021 coup. The first requirement for 5,000 drafting into Myanmar’s military began basic training a year ago this week. Thousands of more people continued, and the military gave even greater strength in…
Kelvin Espinal spent three days at Santo Domingo Morgue this week.His cousin, Jadira Elaine Estevez Serrano, was one of 221 people who died when the roof collapsed early Tuesday at the Jet Set Nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic. His cousin, who was like a sister, passed away the day before his 42nd birthday.And like dozens of other families, Mr. Espinal had not yet received the body of his loved one for burial.”We spent Tuesday until 12pm,” Espinal said Thursday afternoon. “We were here on Wednesday and all day.”On Thursday, Dominican Republic authorities concluded their search for the…
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to promote the return of Maryland men who were mistakenly deported to the infamous megajails of El Salvador.The Trump administration admitted that Kilmer Abrego Garcia was deported by chance, but appealed to a lower court order to bring him back to the United States.On Thursday, in a 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court refused to block the lower court’s order. The judge’s order “requires that the government “promotes” the release of Abrego Garcia from custody in El Salvador and that his case be processed if he is not sent inappropriately.” Garcia, now 29,…