“My kids’ schedules will make your head spin,” Romero says as the family reconvenes Saturday night in their three-bedroom walkup in Bushwick. On school days, they’re up at 5:30 a.m. and out the door by 7. Romero drives the girls to their three schools scattered around Brooklyn, then takes the subway into Manhattan, where she teaches mass communications at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Aid workers have stretched supplies, but warn of a catastrophic surge in severe hunger and malnutrition.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his nomination of a former navy commander to lead the country’s internal security agency after a flurry of criticism.
Netanyahu’s office said in a statement early Tuesday after meeting with Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit that he “intends to examine other candidates,” without elaborating.The nomination announced on Monday had provoked widespread criticism from allies and opponents.Critics of Netanyahu
over his move to fire Ronen Bar, the current head of the Shin Bet domestic security agency, viewing it as part of a broader assault on state institutions at a time when Netanyahu is on trial for alleged corruption and his aides are being investigated over links to the Gulf Arab nation of Qatar.Israel’s Supreme Court froze Bar’s dismissal pending further hearings but cleared the way for Netanyahu to interview candidates for the job.
The nomination of Sharvit angered some of Netanyahu’s allies after Israeli media reported that he had taken part in protests against Netanyahu’s
The move also brought an unexpected rebuke from Sen.“An interest rate cut in May looks increasingly nailed on, and the path to more easing in the second half of the year is getting clearer,” said Luke Bartholomew, deputy chief economist at asset management firm Aberdeen.
Inflation is way down from levels seen a couple of years ago, partly because central banks have dramaticallyfrom near zero during the coronavirus pandemic. Prices then began to shoot up, first as a result of supply chain issues and later because of
, which pushed energy costs higher.As inflation rates have declined from multidecade highs, central banks, including the