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ISLAMABAD — A women-run radio station in northeastern Afghanistan has resumed its broadcasts, after officers shut it down for per week for taking part in music throughout the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official and the top of the station mentioned Friday. Sadai Banowan, which suggests “women’s voice”...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most U.S. adults are against proposals that will reduce into Medicare or Social Security advantages, and a majority help elevating taxes on the nation’s highest earners to maintain Medicare operating as is. The new findings, revealed in a March ballot by The Associated Press-NORC Center f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund chief mentioned Thursday the world financial system is predicted to develop lower than 3% this yr, down from 3.4% final yr, rising the chance of starvation and poverty globally. Kristalina Georgieva mentioned the interval of slower financial exercise shall ...

The common home value continued to rise in March - however at a slower charge than the earlier month, in accordance with a closely-watched index.The Halifax House Price Index reveals that common costs rose by 0.8% in March - following a 1.2% rise in February, with the everyday UK property now costing £287,880. The annual charge of home value development slowed to 1.6%, in comparison with the two.1% seen previously three months.Kim Kinnaird, director of Halifax Mortgages, stated the figures "continue to suggest relative stability in the housing market"."Predicting precisely the place home costs go subsequent is harder. "While the increased cost of living continues to put significant pressure on personal finances, the likely drop in energy prices - and inflation more generally ...

The former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board has agreed to plead responsible to accepting $110,000 in bribes when he led the panel over a two-year interval, authorities stated Thursday. Rick Johnson acknowledged in a signed court docket submitting that he acted “corruptly” when he accept...

Sainsbury's clients have been expressing their dislike of the grocery store's new vacuum-packed beef mince.Shoppers have been airing their opinions of the product on social media and on the chain's product evaluation part on its web site.It comes after Sainsbury's introduced earlier within the yr that it was the primary UK retailer to hoover pack all beef mince as a manner of "saving 450 tonnes of plastic each year".The packing makes use of a minimal of 55% much less plastic as the corporate hopes to work in the direction of its purpose of "halving its use of plastic packaging in own-brand products by 2025".On its web site, Sainsbury's mentioned the meat mince merchandise have been vacuum packed for "freshness" too - that is carried out by eradicating all oxygen, which "typic...

Continuing its efforts to advertise renewable vitality, the Biden administration on Thursday introduced what it says would be the largest neighborhood photo voltaic effort in U.S. historical past, sufficient to energy 140,000 properties and companies in three states. Vice President Kamala Harris introduced...

Consumers are feeling extra optimistic about how a lot they are going to be capable of spend within the coming yr, in keeping with a brand new survey.The Spring Consumer Sentiment Survey by skilled providers agency PwC discovered that, though nonetheless in detrimental territory, shopper sentiment has recovered barely from the low seen final autumn. The measure was -25, in comparison with -32 in January, -44 final autumn, and -51 in October 2008 in the beginning of the worldwide monetary disaster.The most optimistic age group is the underneath 25s, however over 65s are shut behind - their age group has benefitted from increased lockdown financial savings, little or no mortgage repayments, the pensions triple lock (though it was a double lock final yr), and authorities price o...

In what might show a major transfer for communities going through air air pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Thursday that chemical vegetation nationwide measure sure hazardous compounds that cross past their property strains and scale back them when they're too excessive. The propo...

Some of the UK's greatest and best-known companies say they're intently watching the unfolding disaster on the CBI.Sky News contacted greater than 30 FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 corporations on Thursday and located that lots of those that are CBI members are holding their membership - for now. It comes after a variety of allegations of sexual misconduct have been revealed by a nationwide newspaper initially of this week, prompting senior politicians corresponding to Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch to tug out of occasions involving the organisation.A Rolls-Royce spokesperson described the allegations as "deeply concerning" and advised Sky News: "We expect the CBI to thoroughly investigate and take real action on any findings from that investigation."We will await the result of the ...