This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Nothing has displaced the US dollar as the world’s favored reserve currency. But gold (GC=F) investors are giving it a shot. The safe-haven asset is welcoming with open arms the money flowing out…
Nepal Gen Z Protests: China hopes that people from all circles of Nepali society will “properly handle” the country’s domestic issues and restore social order and national stability as soon as possible, a spokesperson at the Chinese foreign ministry was quoted by news agency Reuters as saying on Wednesday, 10 September. “It is hoped that…
FOR THE third time in little over a year, France looks likely to lose its prime minister. François Bayrou’s decision on August 25th to put his government’s survival on the line with a vote of confidence on September 8th was as unexpected as it was risky. The centrist prime minister runs a minority government in…
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese were voting Sunday for seats in the smaller of Japan’s two parliamentary houses in a key election with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his ruling coalition facing a possible defeat that could worsen the country’s political instability. Voters were deciding half of the 248 seats in the upper house, the less…