(Reuters) – Cash-strapped Jet Airways Ltd on Monday took major steps towards closing a rescue deal with its lenders, with Chairman Naresh Goyal and his wife stepping down from the airline’s board. Laden with debt of more than $1 billion and faced with an evaporating market value, Jet is banking on a bailout by its […]

HONG KONG — I knew that the junta running Thailand wanted to stay in power, but I cannot believe how far it has gone to manipulate the general election on Sunday. I’m surprised, even going by the standards set by this government, and I don’t think I’m the only Thai to be. The election commission […]

MUNICH (Reuters) – Scout24, the Germany-based autos and property marketplace, expressed an interest on Monday in acquisitions if eBay Inc sells its classifieds business following pressure from activist investors to do so. “That is a concrete example we are looking at,” CEO Tobias Hartmann told journalists after Scout24 reported double-digit growth in revenue and profits […]

PARIS — Imagine Europe as a target on a radar screen, and you can see the warning alerts flashing red and ubiquitous. Europe is undergoing a multipronged, hybrid attack. The assailants do not coordinate and their goals may vary. But what these flashing signs represent is clear: In the new great-power competition among the United […]

Once, when I was nervous about a new job, I took to brashly replying to people who asked how I was getting on. “They still haven’t found me out, you know,” I would say rather naively. One day a much wiser man took me aside and offered: “They don’t often tell you immediately they have […]

On Sunday afternoon, soon after Attorney General Bill Barr released a letter outlining the Mueller investigation report, President Trump tweeted “Total EXONERATION!” But there are any number of reasons the president should not be taking a victory lap. First, obviously, he still faces the New York investigations into campaign finance violations by the Trump team […]

President Trump’s proposed reversal of decades of American policy on the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights has more to do with Israeli politics than American interests — or good sense. On Thursday, he announced on Twitter that the United States should recognize Israeli sovereignty in the disputed Golan Heights, on Israel’s border with Syria, […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Congress finds out what’s in the Mueller report, Thailand’s military appears to have won elections and Brexit continues to confound a nation. Here’s the latest: Summary of the Mueller report is with Congress Attorney General William Barr sent lawmakers a summary of the […]

In Dublin’s department stores, you may have noticed the homeware section is now peppered with luxury drinking accessories. They call it ”drinkware”. Among the popular items are glass decanting fountains with cleaning beads, designer corkscrews in bubble gum colours and animal designs, glasses for various wine regions, stylish cooling sleeves, ”entry” and ”premium” level wine […]

White male privilege, and even the noblesse oblige of do-gooder privileged white males, gets a bad rap these days. Tim Shriver, seems, in some ways, a typically privileged white male. He went to Yale, of course, and he has been, in his time, a movie and TV producer. His father was US Ambassador to France, […]