June 10, 2023
Key points Thousands of well-wishers lined the streets of London ahead of the coronation procession. Celebrities and dignitaries gather at Westminster Abbey. The decision was made not to light the sails of the Sydney Opera House in honor of the event. It was the morning of Britain’s biggest grand occasion in seven decades: thousands of
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Tunisian authorities are considering building new cemeteries amid a recent influx of migrants washed ashore after they drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. The UN notes that the first three months of 2023 were the most fatal for people fleeing Africa for Europe after the migration crisis in 2017, according to The Guardian. Local morgues and
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After a two-year decline, the U.S. suicide rate is up again in 2021, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Suicide is now the 11th leading cause of death in the country, second among people aged 10 to 35, and fifth among people aged 35 to 54, according
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Good morning. This article is a local version of our FirstFT Newsletter. Subscribe to our Asia, Europe/Africa P America edition to receive it straight to your inbox every weekday morning Ahead of President Yoon Seok-yeol’s state visit to Washington, the White House asked South Korea urge their chipmakers not to increase sales to China If
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Having been given a great opportunity when a vacancy appeared on the national limited overs cricket team, spin bowler Bjorn Fortuin hopes he can take advantage of this and kick off his international career fully with 50 overs if he is given the opportunity to play for South Africa against the West Indies in the
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Multinational corporations looking to reduce their geopolitical vulnerability are hunting for the “plus one” in a “China plus one” manufacturing strategy — or increasingly, as tensions between Washington and Beijing rise, “China plus one, minus China.” India, especially given the big growth last year Apple iPhone production, a clear contender. It is inexpensive, English-speaking, and
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El Salvador has begun filling its mega-prison with transfers for 2,000 people. gang members and criminalsincluding members of MS-13 and Barrio-18. “Today at dawn, in one operation, we handed over the first 2,000 gang members to the Terrorist Detention Center (CECOT).” President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele tweeted. “This will be their new home, where
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The military government of Burma, working with Russian state nuclear energy companyopened a nuclear power clearing house as a step towards the development of nuclear power to fill the energy shortage in the conflict-torn Southeast Asian country. Burma’s state media reported on Tuesday that the head of the military government, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing,
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Rooms fill up quickly at the Zhou Tianxiao Hotel in Beijing’s northern suburbs, where extras include belly massages and squeaky toys. The easing of Covid restrictions in China has sparked a travel boom as millions of people reunite with their families during the Lunar New Year celebrations for the first time since 2019. Many of
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German businesses are scrambling to fill vacancies amid growing labor shortages, with an estimated two million unfilled vacancies in the country, an employers group said on Thursday. Achim Derks, president of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), told a press conference that the vacancies “had resulted in a loss of 100 billion euros
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