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Trump opposes deal to avert government shutdown

US President-elect Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers Wednesday to scupper a cross-party deal to avert a fast-looming US government shutdown. PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 16: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on December 16, 2024 Staring down a Friday night deadline to fund federal agencies, party leaders in Congress had agreed on …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Sino-US relations need new chapter

China Daily

MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY China-US relations are likely to enter a new stage of uncertainty when Donald Trump assumes office as US President on Jan 20. In his second presidency, the US could either trigger trade war 2.0 by levying more tariffs on China and forcing Beijing to slap counter-tariffs, or encourage China to significantly increase imports from the United States …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Olaf Scholz: German chancellor faces confidence vote likely to lead to snap elections

CNN

CNN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces a confidence vote on Monday he is expected to lose, paving the way for a snap election early next year. Scholz himself called the vote, and if he loses, he will have to ask Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to dissolve parliament in a process which would trigger fresh elections. Last month, Germany’s governing …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Reeves faces a recession fears but industrial hollowing could offer a bigger problem

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The UK economy shrank again …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Column: Is it time for California’s Latino Legislative Caucus to let in Republicans?

LA Times

State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil at the Capitol in Sacramento in 2023. She also mentioned the Inland Empire’s 58th Assembly District, where first-time candidate Leticia Castillo beat Clarissa Cervantes, the sister of state senator and former Latino Legislative Caucus chair Sabrina Cervantes, by just 596 votes. She said some members are considering admitting Latino Republicans, while “others have said, ‘Absolutely not.’” …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Oil Holds Drop as OPEC Decision on Supply Takes the Spotlight

Live Mint

-- Oil steadied after a decline, with traders looking ahead to an OPEC meeting on Thursday that’s expected to see the cartel again defer a move to revive output in an already well-supplied market. While commercial stockpiles shrank more than 5 million barrels for the biggest weekly drop since August, nationwide oil production hit a record in a reminder of …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Japan's factory activity falls at fastest pace in 8 months, PMI shows

Hindustan Times

TOKYO, - Japan's factory activity shrank at the fastest pace in eight months in November as soft demand prompted firms to trim production, a private-sector survey showed on Monday. Japan's factory activity falls at fastest pace in 8 months, PMI shows The final au Jibun Bank Japan manufacturing purchasing managers' index slipped to 49.0 in November, the lowest level since …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

China’s property slump may extend into 2025, Fitch Ratings says

Hindustan Times

-- China’s multiyear property crisis is set to drag on in 2025 as prices and sales remain weak despite the government’s stimulus push to spur demand, according to Fitch Ratings. China’s property slump may extend into 2025, Fitch Ratings says China’s new home prices will fall by another 5% next year, as measured by China’s official statistics bureau, or roughly …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Fact Check: Hate crime in West Bank? This church attack video is old and unrelated to Christmas

India Today

A church was allegedly attacked in Beit Sahour, a town near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ, in occupied West Bank. While many posts simply said “Palestinians” attacked a church in Beit Sahour because churchgoers had started decorating for Christmas, some laid the blame squarely on Palestinian Muslims. The viral claims about the church attack …

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1 month ago

AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?

Live Mint

Nuclear energy was the artificial intelligence of the 1960s. Despite its known dangers—Hiroshima and Nagasaki were quite recent back then—there was great optimism over how nuclear technology could change the world with abundant cheap energy, and free humanity from the tyranny of fossil fuels. Capturing this zeitgeist, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his famous ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech at …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Industrial production clocks modest rebound, up 3.1%

The Hindu

India’s industrial output returned to the positive trajectory with a moderate uptick of 3.1% in September, from its first contraction in 21 months this August, led by a 3.9% growth in manufacturing even as electricity and mining sectors grew under 1%. Spliced by end-use, all six segments of factory output recorded positive growth, compared to just four segments in August, …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Wisconsin Republicans return LeMahieu to leadership spot in state Senate

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — Devin LeMahieu will return as the Republican majority leader of the Wisconsin Senate. LeMehieu said in a news release that the top issue for Republicans this legislative session will be returning the state’s funding surplus to families. Tony Evers enacted last year, Democrats flipped four Republican districts in Tuesday’s election and shrank the GOP majority from 22-11 …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why

CNN

CNN — Germany’s governing coalition has collapsed after disagreements over the country’s weak economy led Chancellor Olaf Scholz to sack his finance minister. Christian Lindner’s dismissal prompted him to withdraw his Free Democrats Party from a coalition with Scholz’s Social Democratic Party, leaving Scholz in a minority government with the Green Party. The chancellor told reporters Wednesday night that Lindners’ …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Germany: Europe’s biggest economy is in crisis. Just look at Volkswagen

CNN

London CNN — Germany narrowly escaped a recession in the third quarter, official data showed Wednesday, offering some relief to Europe’s biggest economy as its fortunes falter. “The biggest worry is currently the big pessimism in Germany,” said Marcel Fratzcher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. “We are not experiencing a crisis in the automotive industry, …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Scream ‘in pain’ alarmed neighbour two days before Sara Sharif died, court heard

The Independent

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2 months ago

Drugs for advanced breast cancer could help patients with rare cancer that affects bile ducts

The Independent

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3 months ago

Is the spike in India’s trade deficit a worry?

The Hindu

The story so far: After a positive start to goods exports in the first quarter of 2024-25, there has been a blip in momentum. On the exports front, 18 of India’s top 30 segments recorded growth in July and 19 in August, but the big-ticket sectors like petroleum, and gems and jewellery, have tanked significantly. While gems and jewellery exports …

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3 months, 1 week ago

August’s record gold influx lifts import bill to all-time high

The Hindu

India’s goods exports shrank 9.32% to $34.71 billion in August, while the import bill expanded 3.3% to an all-time high of $64.36 billion, fuelled by a doubling in gold imports to a record $10.1 billion. On the surge in gold imports, the top trade official pointed to plausible factors such as the recent reduction in import duty from 15% to …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Japan’s economy is growing, but political uncertainty is among the risks

Associated Press

TOKYO — Japan’s economy grew at an annual rate of 2.9%, slower than the earlier report for 3.1% growth, in the April-June period, boosted by better wages and spending, revised government data showed Monday. That shows clear risks remain, including U.S. economic growth, which greatly affects export-reliant Japan. The world’s fourth-largest economy grew 0.7% in the fiscal first quarter, according …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Wall Street tumbles on worries about the economy; Dow drops more than 600 points

LA Times

U.S. stocks tumbled Tuesday to their worst day since an early August sell-off, as a week full of updates on the economy got off to a discouragingly weak start. Stocks of oil and gas companies were some of the market’s biggest losers after the price of crude oil fell roughly 4% on concerns about how much fuel a fragile global …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

China's service sector sees expansion while production shrinks

China Daily

Staff members work at a factory of Chint Group in Shanghai in May. China's factory activity shrank for the fourth consecutive month this August, while the service sector has expanded at a faster pace, official data showed on Saturday. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that China's official purchasing managers index for the manufacturing sector came in at …

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4 months ago

Israeli evacuation orders cram Palestinians into shrinking ‘humanitarian zone’ where food is scarce

Associated Press

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Young girls screamed and elbowed each other in a crush of bodies in southern Gaza, trying desperately to reach the front of the food line. Hunger and desperation were palpable Friday in the tent camp along the Deir al-Balah beachfront, after a month of successive evacuation orders that have pressed thousands of Palestinians into the …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Fossils suggest even smaller ‘hobbits’ roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet tall — earning them the nickname “hobbits.” Now a new study suggests ancestors of the hobbits were even slightly shorter. Further analysis of a tiny arm bone fragment and teeth suggests the ancestors were a mere …

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5 months ago

SpiceJet to raise up to ₹3,000 crore via QIP

Live Mint

In a relief for low-cost carrier SpiceJet, the board of the budget carrier on Tuesday approved raising up to ₹3,000 crore through a qualified institutional placement. The company informed the stock exchanges that its board has considered and approved raising funds aggregating up to ₹3000 crore through the issue of shares or any other eligible securities to qualified institutional buyers. …

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Trump opposes deal to avert government shutdown

Sino-US relations need new chapter

Olaf Scholz: German chancellor faces confidence vote likely to lead to snap elections

Reeves faces a recession fears but industrial hollowing could offer a bigger problem

Column: Is it time for California’s Latino Legislative Caucus to let in Republicans?

Oil Holds Drop as OPEC Decision on Supply Takes the Spotlight

Japan's factory activity falls at fastest pace in 8 months, PMI shows

China’s property slump may extend into 2025, Fitch Ratings says

Fact Check: Hate crime in West Bank? This church attack video is old and unrelated to Christmas

AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?

Industrial production clocks modest rebound, up 3.1%

Wisconsin Republicans return LeMahieu to leadership spot in state Senate

Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why

Germany: Europe’s biggest economy is in crisis. Just look at Volkswagen

Scream ‘in pain’ alarmed neighbour two days before Sara Sharif died, court heard

Drugs for advanced breast cancer could help patients with rare cancer that affects bile ducts

Is the spike in India’s trade deficit a worry?

August’s record gold influx lifts import bill to all-time high

Japan’s economy is growing, but political uncertainty is among the risks

Wall Street tumbles on worries about the economy; Dow drops more than 600 points

China's service sector sees expansion while production shrinks

Israeli evacuation orders cram Palestinians into shrinking ‘humanitarian zone’ where food is scarce

Fossils suggest even smaller ‘hobbits’ roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago

SpiceJet to raise up to ₹3,000 crore via QIP