At the signing ceremony for the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, President George Bush observed that the legislation had much in common with the fall of the Berlin Wall the year prior. The new law “takes a sledgehammer to another wall,” Bush remarked, “one which has for too many generations separated Americans with disabilities from […]

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If you can’t face another round of Christmas drinks looking as old as you actually are, and dream of nothing more than looking as young as you did a few years ago, I urge you to seek out the newly published book by French author Mylène Desclaux, ‘Why French Women Feel Young at 50’. You’ll […]

Is it acceptable that Ann from Sligo cannot currently get her son Frank vaccinated against the human papilloma virus (HPV) whereas Anna from Schaan (in Liechtenstein) can so her son Franz can avoid the future devastating effects of oropharangeal cancer? Or that Jimmy in Belfast cannot get access to life saving treatment for his lung […]

(Reuters) – Buyout firm Apollo Global Management LLC (APO.N) has teamed up with regional TV station owner Northwest Broadcasting in its bid to acquire another U.S. TV station owner, Tribune Media Co (TRCO.N), people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Tribune, which has a market value of about $3.5 billion, put itself on the […]

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – European buyout fund BC Partners is preparing to sell its financial news and data business Acuris in a deal that could be worth more than 1 billion pounds, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The company, formerly known as Mergermarket, was part of The Financial Times Group until 2013 […]

PARIS — Familiar Parisian images are back in the news: black smoke billowing from makeshift barricades on the Champs-Élysées; cobblestones hurled at police by protesters; the Arc de Triomphe disappearing behind a cloud of tear gas. But this time, the images feature something new: The protesters are wearing yellow, high-visibility vests. They aren’t longhaired students […]

This article is part of the Opinion Today newsletter. You can sign up here to receive the newsletter each weekday. The Trump immigration crisis goes in and out of the headlines, but it has never ended. Here’s a quick guide to understanding it: The administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the […]

MELBOURNE, Australia — China has built a vast network of extrajudicial internment camps in the western region of Xinjiang, where Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are made to renounce their culture and religion, and are forcibly subjected to political indoctrination. After long denying the camps’ existence, the government now calls them benign training centers that […]

“Rugby supporters at the Aviva Stadium last Saturday night were somewhat taken aback when faced with some prominent DUP members holding a petition urging the Ulster players on the Irish team to switch allegiance to England (or failing that to Wales or even Scotland). “They explained it was in the mission statement of their party […]