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Your Thursday Briefing

Trump’s path to victory grows increasingly narrow. By Natasha Frost Good morning. We’re covering the latest from the U.S. election, an indefinite delay for Poland’s ban on abortion and more coronavirus restrictions for Europe. ‘We believe we will be the winners’ More than a day after polls closed in the United States, no victor has […]

Your Thursday Briefing

Trump’s path to victory grows increasingly narrow. By Natasha Frost Good morning. We’re covering the latest from the U.S. election, an indefinite delay for Poland’s ban on abortion and more coronavirus restrictions for Europe. ‘We believe we will be the winners’ More than a day after polls closed in the United States, no victor has […]

Canada's Couche-Tard enters Asia with near $360 million Hong Kong acquisition

FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians walk past a Couche-Tard convenience store in Montreal, April 18, 2012. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi HONG KONG (Reuters) – Canadian convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc ATDb.TO has entered the Asian market through a deal to buy Convenience Retail Asia Ltd’s 0831.HK Hong Kong unit for HK$2.79 billion ($359.80 million), the companies said on […]

Opinion | Well, That Was Scary

OK, perhaps not exactly what you were hoping for. Election night wasn’t a real thriller for a whole lot of people, and now it looks as if we’re going to be counting votes for … quite a while. Will everybody still be talking about it at Thanksgiving dinner? If so, be careful not to invite […]

Pakistan's army in an unfamiliar place – the spotlight

It is a well-worn saying that while most nations have an army, in Pakistan, the army has a nation. Born as a nation for Muslims after the blood-soaked partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, and hostilities with larger India starting almost immediately over the contested Kashmir region, Pakistan is a country where the military […]

Opinion | A Nation on Edge, a Presidency in the Balance

To the Editor: Re “Key States Up for Grabs as Trump-Biden Battle Extends Late Into Night” (front page, Nov. 4): A blue wave. A landslide victory for Joe Biden. As Election Day came to a close, I quickly came to terms with the reality that neither was going to happen. Perhaps the most devastating reality […]

Opinion | I Love My Twin. How Did We End Up So Far Apart?

Once, when we were 5 years old, my twin brother jumped off a seesaw we were riding at the precise moment that we had been told never to do that. I was in the air, and he was on the ground, and when he made his move I came crashing rapidly and horrifically down. I […]

Opinion | There Was a Loser Last Night. It Was America.

We still do not know who is the winner of the presidential election. But we do know who is the loser: the United States of America. We have just experienced four years of the most divisive and dishonest presidency in American history, which attacked the twin pillars of our democracy — truth and trust. Trump […]

Opinion | Poems From the Trump Campaign

These poems were composed over the past month from the subject lines of emails from the Trump campaign, mostly sent by “Donald J. Trump” but also from Mike, Don Jr., Eric, Lara, Melania, Newt, Ted Cruz, Official Trump Campaign Store, Trump 2021 Calendar, Official Trump Polling and TRUMP TASK FORCE. What did this liberal Democrat […]

Opinion | An Election Day Full of Hope and Anxiety

To the Editor: Despite the four dark years of the Trump administration, I see light at the end of the tunnel. And that light is generated by the strong reaction to incompetent and cruel government, evidenced by an increasing public outcry and record-breaking early voter turnout. This autocratic, insensitive administration, supported by accomplices in the […]