U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned on Sunday,amid a surge in the number of migrants at the border with Mexico. Nielsen had been DHS secretary since December 2017. Her departure had been repeatedly rumored over the past year, particularly after a wave of anger over the administration’s 2018 family separation policy at the border with Mexico and most recently as U.S. border officials estimated that 100,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border in March, the highest level in a decade.
The March floods that punished the U.S. Midwesthave roiled the ethanol industry, hammering prices and trapping barrels in the country’s interior while the U.S. coasts suffer from shortages of the biofuel. Ethanol shortages are one factor pushing gasoline prices in Los Angeles and Southern California to the highest in the nation and they could top $4 a gallon for the first time since 2014, according to tracking firm GasBuddy.
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For three months in 1994 as many as 10,000 people were killed daily in Rwanda.This week will be a week of solemn ceremonies in the country in honor of those killed in the genocide 25 years ago. President Paul Kagame laid a wreath at the Gisozi genocide memorial site on Sunday, where over a quarter of a million people are buried, before an afternoon of speeches and song: popular Rwandan artists sang songs like “Turabunamira twiyubaka,” meaning “honoring them as we rebuild”.
Britain’s opposition Labour Party and Prime Minister Theresa May’s governmenthave not yet found a way forward on reaching a Brexit divorce deal, Labour’s Brexit point man Keir Starmer has said. With Britain’s departure now set for April 12, May’s government is running out of time to get a deal through parliament, and must come up with a new plan to secure another delay from EU leaders at a summit on Wednesday. May will visit both German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Tuesday.
Walmart’s Mexico unit has penalized food companies supplying groceries to rival Amazon, pressure that has forced some to pull their products from the world’s largest online retailer, four people familiar with the matter said.
Demand for Saudi Aramco’s inaugural international bond, seen as a gauge of potential investor interest in the company’s eventual initial public offering, is higher than $30 billion, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday. That would represent an oversubscription of three times the size of the bond, if Aramco sticks to its plan to issue around $10 billion in the debt sale, due this week.
Nissan shareholders have ousted Carlos Ghosn as a director, severing his last tie with the Japanese automaker he rescued from near-bankruptcy two decades ago and from which he is now accused of siphoning funds.
Facebook has said it has made strides in its efforts to prevent online abuses in the Indian national election that starts this week but acknowledged that gaps remain in its “election integrity” efforts.
