Category: Business

  • Chipotle Mexican Grill heads to Mexico to open its 1st location south of the border

    Chipotle Mexican Grill is coming to Mexico.

    California -based chain said on Monday that it was planning to open a restaurant in Mexico early next year in the south of the border in 30 years of history.

    Chipotle is part of Alcia in Mexico City, a company that operates Domino, Starbucks, Berger King, Chile and other brands in South America and Europe. Alsia plans to explore additional expansion in Mexico and other locations in the region.

    Chiptal’s chief business development officer, Nat Lon, said the company is confident that its menu will resonate with Mexican dinners.

    “The country’s familiarity with our elements and fresh food with our elements said it creates an attractive growth market for our company.”

    The expansion has reached the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariff on Mexican imports.

    Last week, the US Commerce Department reported that they had plans to withdraw from the 2019 contract by postponing an antidamping investigation into new tomato imports from Mexico. This completion, set for effect on July 14, will be subject to 20.91% of most tomatoes from Mexico.

    The chipotle has received about half of its avocado from Mexico, but not yet subject to tariffs.

    The chipotle, which was established in Denver in 1993, has 3,700 restaurants and planned to open 345 new locations this year.

    It has been focused on increasing its international footprint. Last year, it was parted with the Al -Shaya Group to open a restaurant in Kuwait within a decade. It now has three restaurants in Kuwait and two in the UAE.

  • Drones pose increasing risk to airliners near major US airports

    Washington – A commercial aircraft at San Francisco’s International Airport in November was towards the final procedure when the Crew Cockpit found a drone outside the window. At that moment it was too late to “take upset”, “the pilots said and the quadcopter was not 300 feet away from their windshield.

    A month ago, a Jetliner was flying at a height of 5 feet near the International Airport in Miami when its pilots reported a “close face” with a drone. In August, the left branch of a passenger jet came as a drone of 50 feet of clipping.

    According to aviation protection experts, all of these events were classified as “nearest middle conflict” – which could have the catastrophic consequences of any one. They were not isolated encounters.

    An associated press analysis of the airline protection database revealed that last year drones were about two-thirds of the report near the media collision involved in the landing and landing at the top 30 busiest airports in the country. The airline traffic was reduced during the Covid -19 epidemic when it was the highest percentage of these nearest misses since 2021.

    AP has been found, the first missed reports of the nearby Miss involved with the drones in the 21st were logged. The next year, the number of face -to -face numbers spread. According to the AP analysis, in the last decade, drones have been reported to Miss around 51% – 122 in 240.

    A January clash between a military helicopter and a commercial jet near Washington DC was clarified by January collision – as the airports were at risk – passenger jets had long been at risk around the airports, which killed 67 people.

    The use of quadcopters and remote-Controld planes exploded in popularity as the threat to the drone has become more intense over the past decade. The FAA estimates that Americans are operating more than a million drones for recreational and commercial purposes.

    “If you have money, you can go to the Internet and buy a beautiful sophisticated drone that can reach the height, they have no business,” said William Waldoc, a Professor of Protection Science at Embry-Ridol Aeronautical University.

    The risk is the most intense of the airports because it is the most overlap of drones and aircraft aircraft, experts say.

    The events presents only a portion of these close calls because the database – NASA airline security reports – depending on the submission of voluntary submission of pilots and other aviation staff. A separate FAA program, which includes public reports, has at least 160 spectacles of flying drones near the airports last month.

    “The FAA recognizes this instability and we all know that additional changes need to be made to identify and mitigate the airports,” Hanna Thach, executive director of partnership known as the UAS system as a coalition through research superiority, said.

    The FAA says they have taken steps to reduce the risk of drones. It has banned almost all drones flying around the airports without prior approval, though these national rules are difficult to enforce, and recreational users may not be aware of restrictions.

    The agency requires articles for drones weighing 250 grams (0.55 pounds), and a radio transponder need to carry a radio transponder that identifies the owner of the drone and broadcast its location to help avoid collision. Additional rules manage the use of commercial drones.

    The company is also examining systems to identify and counter -observance drones near the airports. Among the methods that are being tested: Jam drones are forced to use radio signals or landing them. Authorities are also weighing whether high-power microwave or laser beam should be installed to disable machines.

    Experts say the FAA and other authorities can do more. They suggested creating a system similar to the speed camera on the roadways that could capture a drone transponder code and send tickets to its pilots.

    They also say that the FAA rules should be considered in which all manufacturers need to be programmed to prevent airport and other sensitive zones for a drone GPS unit program, this is a method called “Geofening”.

    The top drone manufacturer DJI uses this national geography for years. However, it removes the feature in January, when it reaches the restricted areas, the drone replaces it with caution to pilots.

    Adam Welsh, head of DJI’s Global Policy, said that handling the request for temporarily disable geofnsing from authorized users has become increasingly time -consuming task. Last year, more than one million requests were processed.

    Welsh said, “We had about twenty -four hours of service, but it was really difficult to handle the applications that arrived,” said Walesh. “All of them had to be reviewed individually.”

    He said no other manufacturers were able to do not enable Geofnsing and no need to do it without government rules, DJI decided to finish the practice, he said.

    The FAA refused to say whether it was considering whether it was considering the order of geofnsing.

    Experts say that the authorities should take more aggressive steps to account for the limited airspace violation of drone users – to highlight the problem and prevent others from breaching the rules, pointing to recent arrests that they could send this national message.

    For example, in December, the Boston police arrested two people who operated a drone that flew dangerously near Logan International Airport. Police said they were able to find drone flyers in some parts by tracking the aircraft for the FAA-driven transponder signal.

    A month later, a small drone collided with a “super scoop” aircraft that was struggling to spread the flames scattered in southern California. The drone dug a hole in the left wing of the aircraft, which was sufficiently damaged that officers were based on repairing the aircraft for several days.

    Authorities found a 56 -year -old drone operator who was convicted of a federal allegation for recklessly flying his aircraft. According to the court record, the FAA’s flying in that region is limited to flying, he admitted that he launched his DJI quadcopter to monitor the fire at the Pacific Polysades neighborhood. It lost the drone after the operator flying about 1.5 miles from where the operator launched. And it was then that the “super scooper” hit.

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  • China to retaliate with sanctions on US officials, NGO leaders over Hong Kong issues

    Hong Kong – China will approve the US officials, lawmakers and leaders of the non -governmental organizations who have said that “acting badly” on the Hong Kong issue, the Foreign Ministry has announced.

    The United States has approved six Chinese and Hong Kong officials in March who complained that it was involved in “transnational suppression” and works by threatening to further decay the city’s autonomy. Officials were included in Justice Secretary Paul Lam, Director of the Security Office Dong Jingway and former Police Commissioner Raymond CU.

    In a retaliatory action against Washington DC on Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Ziakun said China strongly condemned the laws and called them “disgusting”. The United States has severely intervened in Hong Kong issues and violated international law policy, he said

    “China has decided to impose sanctions on US Congressmen, officials and NGO leaders who have acted badly on the Hong Kong-related issue,” said Guo that the response was made in accordance with the law of foreign sanctions.

    He did not provide more details about who was being targeted.

    Guo also issued a warning about Hong Kong that the issues of the southern Chinese city are not subject to US intervention. He said that the Chinese government, who was taken on the Hong Kong-related issue, would be considered wrong, that the FIRM-1 would be filled with counter-counter and mutual revenge, he said.

    Titus for Hong Kong’s human rights issues is the latest symptom of growing tensions between Beijing and Washington, which has already spread the business on both sides in a trade war.

    Beijing on Monday warned other countries against the United States to make a trade agreement against China for the loss of China.

    In March, US sanctions on officials were not related to the first British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Donald Trump’s first president, his government imposed sanctions on Hong Kong and Chinese officials to undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy.

    In 2021, the administration of former President Joe Biden was further banned by the officials on Beijing’s crackdown regarding political independence in semi-autonomous cities.

    Since China imposed a national security law to prevent anti -government protests in 2021, the Hong Kong authorities have sued many top activists in the city. Media outlets are known for the government’s critical report after their top management arrest. Dozens of civil society groups have been demolished.

    In the last two years, Hong Kong authorities have issued an arrest warrant for five abroad workers, which has Million 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($ 128,536) for information on each arrest. Some of them lived in the USA

    Over the years, the crackdown has been criticized by foreign governments, especially because the city was promised to keep the city intact for at least five years during the 1997 intervention.

    Beijing and Hong Kong governments emphasized that the law was necessary for the city’s stability.

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    Tian McLeod contributed to the report to the bank.

  • China warns countries against making trade deals with the US unfavorable to Beijing

    Beijing – China on Monday warned other countries against the United States to make a trade agreement for China’s loss.

    Governments, including Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, have begun talks with Washington after President Donald Trump announced the spread of tariffs against almost all US business partners on April 2. After the market was terrified, import taxes against most countries were paid quickly, but he had already raised steep tariff against China.

    The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement, “China has opposed any part of China to reach an agreement at the expense of China’s interest.” “If this happens, China will never accept it and take a counter -action in a mutual manner. China is determined and capable of protecting its rights and interests.”

    US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent says the countries discussed with the United States currently about the trade agreement with the United States earlier this month “China should contact China as a party”.

    The US tariffs against other countries are economic bullying, ministry, anonymous spokesperson blamed.

    “The supervision cannot bring peace, and the compromise cannot win the honor,” added it. “For the sake of one’s own temporary selfish interests, in exchange for the so -called exemption, the interest of others is like looking for the skin from the tiger. It will eventually fail only to both ends and to harm others without benefiting themselves.”

    China reports that it is open to discuss with Washington but no meeting has been announced.

    Trump targeted China to its steep tariffs, imposing a number of tariffs on Chinese imports. Beijing revenge with 125% of tariffs on US imports.

    The tariffs have spread the exporter and suspended invoice when threatening to pull the global economy.

  • 60,000 Americans to lose rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts

    Daniris Espinal Brooklyn a few moments after going to his new apartment, he prayed. In the next night, he woke up and touched the walls for assurance – found a relief between them that turned into tears over his morning coffee.

    These walls were made possible through a federal program that paid for about 60,000 families and rents for people who escaped from homelessness or domestic violence. Both of the aspinal were fleeing.

    However, the emergency housing vouchers program is going out of money – and fast.

    According to a letter from the US Housing and Urban Development Department and a letter received by Associated Press, funds are expected to be used later next year. It shakes thousands of people all over the country to rent them.

    This will be one of the biggest one-time losses of rental assistance in the United States, analysts say, and the subsequent evictions can churn these people-back to the back of their lives for years or back to objectionable relationships.

    “It will completely raise the progress they have made,” said Sonia Acosta, the policy analyst of the center of the budget and policy priority center by researching housing assistance.

    “And then you multiply it by 59,000 families,” he said.

    The program, which was launched in 2021, was allocated $ 1 billion to help people away from homelessness, domestic violence and human trafficking by the then President Joe Biden as part of the epidemic-era American Rescue Plan Act.

    People were listed from San Francisco to Dallas to Florida Talahasi – among them children, seniors and seniors – with this expectation that funds will run from the end of the decade.

    However, with the balloning expense of rent, $ 5 billion will end faster.

    Last month, HUD sent letters to groups that “your HUD suggested to handle your EHV program with the expectation that no additional funds would be imminent from HUD.”

    The future of the program is fixed with the Congress, which can decide to add the federal budget to the budget. However, this is relatively expensive at a time when the Congress -controlled Republicans set the deadly spending on the federal expenditure for tax reduction.

    Democratic rep. Maxine Waters, who championed the program four years ago, is pressing for another 8 billion dollars.

    However, the companies have asked the EP to redefine the funds for Republicans and Democratic Law makers that they are not optimistic. Four GOP lawmakers who oversee the budget discussion did not respond to the AP requests to comment.

    “We have been told that this is going to be a final fight,” said Kim Johnson, a public policy manager of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

    Espinal and two daughters, 4 and 19 years old, are living in one of those vouchers with more than $ 3,000 a monthly fare in the three-bedroom apartment-it is a very difficult amount of cover without voucher.

    Four years ago, Espinal fought on the way out of a wedding that had controlled his decisions to leave the apartment, starting from showing his family and friends to his family and friends.

    When she spoke, her husband said that she was wrong, or wrong or crazy.

    In the smoke of isolated and postpartum disappointment, he did not know what to believe. “Every day, with a little bit of, I don’t start to feel like myself,” he said. “I thought my mind was not mine.”

    When the notice came in March 2021, about $ 12,000 wanted a back rent, it was a push. Espinal quit his job in her husband and she promised to spend family expenses.

    Espinal said police reported that the explosion of her husband’s wrath was sufficient for a judge registered in 2022, as well as to protect their daughter in 2022.

    But his future was uncertain: he was alone, rented thousands of dollars behind and there was no income to give or support his newborn and teenage daughter.

    During the epidemic, financial assistance to prevent eviction carry the aspinal, pays the rent behind it and keep the family away from the shelter. However, it was the expiry date.

    In that time, the emergency housing voucher program targets people in the Espinal situation.

    “Domestic Violence is the leading cause of family homeless in New York City”, New Destiny Housing Housing Access and Stabilities Services Director Gina Kapuchiti says a non -profit that has connected 700 domestic violence to the voucher program.

    Espinal moved to one of those 700 and in 2023 his Brooklyn apartment.

    He said that a safe place was out of finding to stay relieved, he said. “I got my qualifications, got the feeling of peace and I was able to rebuild my identity.”

    Now, he said he was excluding money in the worst case. Because, “This is my fear that I have worked so hard to lose control of everything”. “

  • Trump administration reverses long-held guidance on ‘road diets’ for traffic safety

    A stylist was barely starting his shift in a salon in Kansas City, Missouri, when a car broke through the storefront window and landed a few feet away.

    These types of crashes were so common on the 5th street that business owners regularly studied each other that showed the damage caused by the four-lane roads lined with shops, bars and restaurants, which drivers were used as shortcuts on the main highway.

    “A wide road forces people to think, ‘As fast as we drive on it, the faster the car is driving,” “a bookstore above and apartments, the owner of the salon housing property, said Ryan Ferrell.

    When concrete pavement barriers did not work, Ferrell and other business leaders preached to keep the road in a “road diet”.

    Some Republican governors have become an equipment that has been removed as a tool that uses numerous cities to calm traffic for many years. President Donald Trump’s administration does not like it.

    Federal transportation officials once healed the road diet to cut the crashes from 19% to 47%, but the upcoming road protection grant criteria states that the projects should be considered less favorable, “the project to reduce the capacity of the lane”, the administration said.

    The US Transport Department’s Associated Press said in an email statement that “forced travelers to restricted space” can cause crash, irregular techniques and a false feeling of protection. “” The update reflects the category anxiety about the risk of security related to traffic. “

    Kansas City saved some money when converting the 31st Street in 2022 because a gas line was going on the way. It has been re -opened with a lane on each direction instead of two, a shared turn lane near the signal intersection, the better pedestrian crossings and street parking spaces.

    Whenever the roads are ready to rebuild a road, the road diets are now an automated part of the process in Kansas City. For years, federal guidelines have said that less than 25,000 vehicles a day were appropriate to reduce lanes on the streets. Most four-lane roads in the city do not meet that margin.

    Bobby Evans, a city planner of the Central-America Regional Council, working on the road diet in Kansas City, has called Bobby Evans strategy a “smashing success” and one of the most effective tools for speed, crash and injury.

    “In the architectural world you would call it environmentalism,” Evans said. “You want to make it so they don’t feel comfortable to go too quickly you’re

    Numerous cities have submitted a road diet with the improvement of security.

    Philadelphia quotes a 19% decrease in injury crashes. Portland, Oregon, has dropped to at least 10 miles (16 km) traveler vehicles over the speed limit. The average speed of Fort Lodder in Florida has dropped by 5 miles per hour (8 km) on a few roads in a few months.

    However, Jabber, the executive director of the Advocacy Organization for the drivers, JB Bieber, said most road diets represent a bad suggestion effort to force vehicles out of the road. He said the number of vehicles on the dietary roads could decrease, but then the surrounding roads need to be absorbed, he said.

    “These cars have to go somewhere,” he said. “Cars are like water. They look for their own level.”

    Leya Shahum, who directed a non -profit Vision Zero Network for street protection, said road diets are expensive and supported by research for years. The cities of the Republican-leading states are among converters and Shahum is not sure whether the new guidelines of the Trump administration will revisit them.

    Shahum said, “I certainly hope that there will be no bleeding to indirectly discourage the use of this proven protection.” “It will be a real damage.”

    Trump’s Transport Department quoted the distribution and emergency vehicles in its concerns.

    When researchers at the University of Iowa surveyed first-reactivists in Cedar Rapids, their research published last year did not find any significant differences during any street diet. However, when an ambulance used the center lane to pass an ambulance, the drivers needed to be educated about what should be done.

    Kara Haman, associate professor of epidemics composed this survey, said he could not remember any major examples of EMS or fire trucks.

    “Road diet does not create a dimension that slows them,” he said.

    Before Trump, some red states were in doubt.

    San Antonio spent several years of the state -owned part of the Broadway Street removed the vehicle lanes and improved the expansion for bikes and pedestrians. However, Texas suddenly recovered the road in 2022, and the project naked, GOP Governor Greg Abbott ran to re -election and called for the closure of anti -car policies.

    “They originally used BroadWe as a political football,” said Brian Martin, owner of the electronic bike repair shop, the owner of the Bronco Bike.

    The Republican Governor of Florida. Ron Dessantis signed a bill of 180 days in a bill last year and the local government signed the bills that could remove an alley. He said that they would prevent staff from being deliberately preventing the roads.

    Not all pushbacks come from the Republican -led states. During the epidemic, California’s Culver City applied a road diet to walk, ride bikes and prioritize transit. But when the cars come back and the traffic backs up miles, the city overturns the plan.

    Some residents sued Washington Vancouver, saying that the city should have been kept its road diet for public votes.

    One of the opponents said, “I have seen people go to the shoulder or bike lane,” said Justin Wood. ” “It creates more opportunities for conflict.”

    Kansas City planner Evans says Road Diets cannot stop all the reckless drivers.

    “If you are obliged to go 12 miles away from the speed limit on the three-lane road, you have to be determined, you need to be involved in some stupid, dangerous driving,” Evans said.

  • Secondhand stores are poised to benefit if US tariffs drive up new clothing costs

    New York – According to industrial experts, President Donald Trump’s stread war as a global business worldwide to avoid potential losses is also ready to sell second -hand clothing, shoes and accessories.

    American styles carry international influences, but almost all the clothing sold domesticly is made somewhere else. Yale University Budget Lab has increased 655% for short -term consumers last week and 5% for leather products, our tariffs refer to those products “unnecessarily affected”.

    This type of price raising expenses can drive online re -sales sites, invoice boutique and 3ft stores in search of bargains or ways to turn their clothing as a cash. Used items cost less than their new equivalent and only come from outside the country but only subject to tariffs.

    “I think the re-sale is about to grow in a market,” said Kristen Classi-Jumo, a market research agency Circana’s garment industry analyst. “I think that is about to win in this chaotic environment is the channels that bring about the price.”

    Nevertheless, the outlook for pre -fashion brings unknown, including whether the President’s customs will be long enough to give the customers and change their behavior. It is also unclear that the secondhand payers will raise their own prices, either in the overall market to mirror or in response to the buyer’s needs.

    Retired Fashion Executive Jane Genovs sells its unwanted designer clothing through a markery like customer-customer marketplace. If the tariffs cause retail prices, he will consider high-end secondhand sites.

    75 -year -old Genoves said, “Unless I look at it and don’t really shock that sticker, I can’t say exclusively that I will be pushed to the other side.” “I think the part of its tariff is that you must rewrite the subjects and and I will probably start to see alternative places.”

    Secondhand clothing market is already developing before the US fashion industry disguised the tariff. Management Consulting Farm McKinci and Co. Covid -1 epidemic predicts that pre -fashion earning global income will increase by 5 times faster than sale of retail clothing this year because buyers wanted to save money or spend environmentally conscious ways.

    Members of the Millennium and Generation Z were known as the primary buyers of the garment used, but the data of the market research firm censor tower shows that the audience may expand.

    Censor Tower says the number of mobile app downloads for nine re -sales markets – eBay, offerup, wooker, marry, crozlist, dipp, threadup, the therial and vinted – 3% increased from January to March, the first quarter profit in three years.

    Downloads of the farm eBay, Depop, Threadup and Reallerial applications have also increased by one year on March 31, when Trump published punished punishment tariffs in dozens of countries.

    Circle-Zummo of SAARCana said that when customers were looking for collective or unusual alcohol pieces as complementary to their clothing, he noticed that more buyers were rotating on secondhand sites to replace regular fashion items.

    He said that “this is still a cheap option” rather than buying new, retailers give discounts, he said.

    CEO Manish Chandra said a digital platform where users buy and sell premier clothing, have not yet been able to pick up sales under the tariff schedule but are ready to capitalize.

    E-commerce marketplaces operated companies upgrade their technology to make the items easier to look for. Chandra said a visual search equipment and other improvements in the experience of wool market would “pay long dividends in disruption in the market.”

    Archive, San Francisco -based technology company that is. Martens, The North Face and Lulun, created and manufactured online and in-stor re-sales programs for brands including Luliun, which the team has noticed the clothing labels more urgently, CEO Emily Gitins said.

    “All inventors already sitting in the United States are tapped, not being used in human rooms or warehouses,” he said that a revenue source provides a revenue source when restricting from foreign manufacturers.

    Gitins said, “There is a lot of uncertainty here.” “Everyone believes it is going to be extremely harmful for consumer product brands sold in the United States so the re -sale is basically where everyone’s head is running.”

    Stock analysts predicted off-pay retailers like TJ Maxex and Berlington Stores to do regular clothing and department stores because they carry the rest of the merchandise in the United States

    Nevertheless, the re-sales vendors are not protected from the tariff-induced rise, the founder and CEO of Circular Services Group, a company that suggests brands and retailers to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry.

    US vendors say that by importing secondhand Inventory from European Union countries, Trump proceeded with the establishment of “mutual” tariffs on most trading partners and removed an import tax exception for less than $ 800.

    Kibbe said he was looking for a customs discount for a fashion alliance led by a fashion alliance, which would be given for re -sale. He has already completed the duty-free provision of low-value parcels from China, which is a step that can benefit secondhand clothing vendors by creating low-cost Chinese fashion pricieers, he said.

    James Reinhart, co-founder and CEO of the online consignment marketplace threadup, said the removal of the “De Minimis” and the removal of Trump’s 5% tariff on China’s products would benefit business. He suspects that re -sales channels will bring a big difference for separate brands created.

    “Brands will explore it and they can do more, but I don’t see their operations change greatly,” said Reinhart. “I think they will determine how they can survive. And I don’t think that redo sales help you live.”

    CEO Charles Gorara says Rebag, an online marketplace and retail chain that used designer handbags sell $ 500 to thousands of dollars, will help new customers run and open more physical stores, CEO Charles Gora said.

    Goras said the company would analyze the price for new luxury products and adjust the charges of rebag accordingly. Two Histors rose to tendem in Tihassically, but due to low demand for re -sales, last year, the channel did not match the 10% price rise to Ribag, Gora said.

    “It has no connection to the tariff,” he said. “Customers are determining the price.”

    Senior 22 of the Minnesota University, Norah Bortman bought most of his own clothes in eBay. He developed fashion in Goodwill stores in the early 1990s and 2000s and re -sold them on the depop.

    If the tariffs are raised in the fashion economy and discouraged the foolish costs, the brotman will be considered as a plus.

    “If it drives people to the other side, I will like it.”

  • Vance arrives in India for a 4-day visit that includes talks with Modi

    New Delhi – US Vice President JD Vans arrived in India for a four -day visit on Monday as New Delhi avoids US tariffs, discussing bilateral trade agreements with Washington and strengthening relations with the Trump administration.

    Vans will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the first day of his personal visit. The two leaders are expected to discuss bilateral relations in February when meeting Modi President Donald Trump in Washington.

    The United States is the largest trade partner in India and the two countries are now working to seal bilateral trade agreements this year.

    They have set a more ambitious goal of $ 500 billion than double their bilateral trade by 20 years. If achieved, trade agreements can significantly increase economic relations between the two countries and strengthen diplomatic relations.

    The first visit to New Delhi in Vans has come into the background of Trump’s now-Passed Tariff Program against most countries including India. It matches the rapidly intense trade war between Washington and Beijing, which is the main competitor of New Delhi in the region.

    Modi and Vans are expected to exchange views on “reviewing the progress of bilateral relations” and “the exchange of views on regional and global development of mutual interests,” the Indian Foreign Ministry said last week.

    “We are very positive that this visit will enhance our bilateral relationship,” spokesman Randhi Jayaswal says.

    Vans was welcomed with an Indian classical dance performance on Monday after his visit to Rome on Monday after his visit to Rome, where he met Pope Francis on Sunday on Sunday. He is accompanied by his wife, Usha Vans, a practicing Hindu whose parents are from India, their children and US administration officials.

    The couple and their three young children went to the Akshadham Hindu Temple in New Delhi after their arrival, and during their trip, UNESCO’s World Heritage Site-Iconic Taj Mahal Memorial and the twelfth century mango fort are expected to visit.

    India is a close partner in the United States and is an important strategic allies in fighting China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region.

    It is also a part of quad, which is made up of the United States, India, Japan and Australia and is seen as a resistance to China’s expansion in the region. Trump is expected to attend a summit of quad leaders in India later this year.

    Modi had established a good work relationship with Trump in the first term in the office and the two leaders would increase their cooperation between their country.

    He was one of the first leaders of the United States to go to the United States and discuss with Trump after returning to the White House. During his visit, Modi praised a “mega partnership” in the United States and began a discussion process to reduce the possible consequences of Trump’s tariff.

    These two leaders also said that they plan to increase their defense partnership with the demands of the Trump administration say it would buy more oil, energy and defense equipment from the United States

    Regardless, Trump targeted India with 26% tariff, a portion of which has been paused since then. However, he called India “customs abuse” and “customs king”.

    Trade discussions are especially urgent for New Delhi because Trump’s mutual tariffs, especially in agriculture, can strictly hit the processed food, auto components, high-end machinery, treatment equipment and jewelry sectors.

  • Asian markets are mixed as US tech companies are due to release earnings

    Asian shares were mixed on Monday after Easter Weekend holidays, some markets are still closed.

    US technology agencies were low in the recent market turmoil of President Donald Trump’s trade war.

    Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a comment, “One thing is clear – and no longer controversial – it is a reputed hit to the US brand, and it does not fade quietly in the next news cycle,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary.

    Unsupported reports say that China has stopped importing some farm products and liquid natural gas to avoid paying steep tariffs imposed on Trump’s 5% of Trump’s tariffs.

    US President Donald Trump’s trade war remains the source of deep uncertainty. Economists fear that the use of acute tariffs can be fully applied and left in the place for a while.

    Tokyo’s Nikki 225 index lost 1% in 34,368.42 in the absence of significant progress towards trade agreements with Trump. Especially the Japanese automackers are facing 25% tariffs on exports to the United States of Auto and Auto parts.

    The Shanghai Composit Index increased by 0.3% to 3,244.44, while South Korea’s Copes were almost unchanged at 2,484.23.

    Tyex of Taiwan lost 1.2%.

    The markets were closed in Hong Kong and Australia.

    The US markets were closed on Friday and on Thursday the closed was mixed. Dow industries are 1.3%drowning, while S&P500 is up to 0.1%. Nasdak composit shed 0.1%.

    Treasury yield increased on Monday morning.

    Companies of Big Tea “Magnicent Seven” companies, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Tesla, Google Parent Alphabet and Facebook Parent Meta Platforms this week stops earning season. Their joint market price since Trump’s inauguration has been submerged by $ 3.8 trillion or 22%until April 20.

    Trump’s tariffs are destroyed with supplies chains in China and other main markets in the world.

    Tesla, which produces its electric vehicles in Shanghai, is expected to release its full financial report on Tuesday, which has already revealed that its first quarterly car sales have decreased by 13% since last year.

    Also early Monday, US benchmark is submerged $ 1.20 to $ 62.81 per barrel per barrel. International Standard Brent Croud has released $ 1.20 to .76.76 per barrel per barrel.

    The US $ 141.08 bought the Japanese yen, the weakest level since September has dropped from 141.80 yen. Euro has increased from $ 1.1404 to $ 1.1473.

    A recent drop economist in the dollar was concerned that Trump could reflect something more ominous than ordinary rise -as soon as Trump tries to re -shape the global trade: reduces confidence in the United States as a safe haven for investment.

    In the bond market, the yield of 10 years of treasury has increased on Thursday night from 4.35% to 4.35%.

  • 15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawsuits stall and restoration is incomplete

    New Orleans – Deep Water Horizon Oil Rugs exploded on the Gulf of the Rug fifteen years later, and 5 million gallons (1 million liters) shipped into the sea unattractively, the country’s worst offshore oil was still felt.

    The oil agency BP has paid billions of dollars to billions of dollars, driven the ambitious coastal recovery projects across five states. Nevertheless, cleanup workers and local residents who have spread oil for health effects are listening to their cases in court and some have received significant compensation.

    Conservation groups say that the spill has catalyzed innovative recovery work across the Gulf coast, but a flagship land-creative project in Louisiana has been worried. As the Trump administration expands oil and gas abroad, they are concerned that the best opportunities for the Gulf coast are moving away.

    In the coastal community of the southeast of Louisiana Louisiana, Tamie Grimilion is celebrating Easter on April 20 spill on April 20 without her daughter. He warned Jennifer against joining a cleanup in the BP spill.

    “But I couldn’t stop him – they were offering a lot of money to these kids,” said Grimilion. “They didn’t know the dangers. They didn’t do what they should do to protect these young people.”

    Jennifer worked in the oil for months, returned home in smoke, coveded covered in black splaches and breaking the rash and suffering headaches. He came in contact with the cricket, applied to the bottom and bottom of the water to spread an EPA-approved chemical oil, which has been associated with health problems.

    In 2021, Jennifer died in Leukemia, blood cancer that could be due to oil contact.

    Grimilion, who spoke of his daughter’s death, broke into tears, “1,000% confident” that caused cancer in contact with toxin during the cleanup.

    He filed a case against BP in 2022, though the allegations were difficult to establish in court. The Grimilion suit is still one of a small number of cases pending.

    Before the investigation of the Associated Press, everything was found except about 5,3 cases and only one settled for the health problem associated with the spread of oil.

    In a 2012 settlement, BP paid 67 million to sick workers and coastal residents, but it was not more than $ 1,300 per $ 1 for compensation.

    The Atornis of the Downs Law Group represent the BP in the case against Grimilion and about 5 people, saying that the company has received processed technical technologies to prevent their day in court in their court.

    BP has refused to comment on the case. In the case of the court, BP denied the allegations that health problems arose in contact with oil and attacked credibility of medical experts by the plaintiff.

    The environmental impact was destructive, remembering the PJ Han, who served on the frontline as the officer in the southeast Louisiana coastal management. He saw the oil in the barrier islands and surrounded the plaquemines parish around his community until it only crushed like a cookie in hot coffee, only separated. “

    The oyster bed has stopped breathing, the reefs were blankets on chemicals and the phishing industry was tank. The pelismen smelled a black shell from the contaminated water diving for dead fish. The National Ocean and the atmospheric administration said thousands of marine and sea turtles were killed according to the National Ocean and atmospheric administration.

    Since then, a team of state and federal agencies responsible for the recovery of the BP has been recovered, according to the Natural Resources Damage Evaluation Trustee Council, has been restored to the Gulf Housing and ecosystem.

    The Council says that more than 300 $ 5008 billion worth of recovery projects have been approved in the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has named the United States Gulf. The projects include acquiring wetlands in Mississippi to protect the nesting zones for birds, rebuilding the reefs along the Pennacola Bay of Florida, and recovering about 4 square miles (11 sq km) in the square of New Orleans.

    During a tragedy, the spill “encouraged a movement – it was moving towards a healthy, more elastic coast,” said Simone Maloz, director of the Conservation Alliance Mississippi River Delta.

    The billion dollars of dollars paid by BP “allow us to rely on science to work faster, to work quickly and to guide large -sized solutions,” he added.

    Nevertheless, many conservationists view as the flag of the meaning recovery projects by paying dipwater disaster – about 3 billion dollars in the Southeast Louisiana to redefine 21 square miles (54 sq km) of land from the Mississippi River – locally suspended its impact on Elvez.

    Louisiana Governor Jeff Landri says that the project will break “our culture” by damaging local oyster and shrimp fisheries due to the arrival of fresh water. Earlier this month, his administration had paused the project for 90 days with his high expenditure quote and its future was uncertain.

    The Trump administration is trying to sell more offshore oil and gas lease, which the industrial trade group called the American Petroleum Institute a “major step for American power”.

    BP announced the discovery of an oil in the bay last week and planned more than 40 new wells in the next three years. The company has said that it has improved the security quality and supervision.

    BP said in an email statement “We are eagerly aware that we should always be protected first.” “We have changed a lot so that this national event never happens again.”

    Nevertheless, the non -profit Osiana climate and energy director Joseph Gordon warned that the inheritance of Deepwater Horizon should be “an alarm bell” against the expansion of offshore drilling.

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