EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic will travel to Beijing Thursday for two days of high-stakes talks aimed at staving off a trade war with China. The trip comes as the European Union has toughened its stance towards Beijing to defend businesses against what it believes is unfair competition in sectors ranging from cars to industrial […]
Read MoreA drone strike in Ethiopia’s Tigray region killed several people in a displacement camp, sources said on Monday, as the government pressed north into rebel territory after almost two weeks of internal conflict that threatens a wider regional war. Fighting broke out between the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and federal forces on September […]
Read MoreDie Entlastung durch den Tankrabatt schrumpft nach Angaben des ADAC schon wieder zusammen: Die seit 1. Oktober geltende Energiesteuersenkung “hat zwar zu einem deutlichen Preisrückgang bei den Kraftstoffen geführt”, jedoch seien die Preise in den vergangenen Tagen wieder gestiegen. Der Verband Fuels und Energie erklärte, es sei in seinem Interesse, den Rabatt in vollem Umfang […]
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Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives whose career ended in disgrace after he admitted sexually abusing teenage boys he had coached, has died aged 84, officials said Monday. The Kendall County Coroner’s Office in Illinois said Hastert died at his home Saturday night while under hospice care. Hastert was […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed there would be no Hamas rule in Gaza as he attended a memorial event marking three years since the militant group’s October 7, 2023 attack. Monday is a national day of remembrance for the deadliest day in Israel’s history, with flags lowered to half-mast on public buildings […]
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio lifted off for Iceland Monday to continue pressing US interests in the Arctic, two weeks after Washington sealed a security pact on Greenland. Rubio will meet with officials in Reykjavik “to discuss economic and security collaboration,” the US State Department said in a statement announcing the trip. The lightning […]
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The United States confirmed that it had withdrawn all B-1 bombers from the British airbase of RAF Fairford, reportedly due to “new threats,” with Britain’s government insisting Monday the site is safe. Police were called to the base in southwest England on September 27 after a local farmer reported a group of men with several […]
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Die Plastiksteuer soll nach den Haushaltsplänen der schwarz-roten Koalition ab dem kommenden Jahr zusätzliche Einnahmen von jährlich mehr als einer Milliarde Euro bringen – Wirtschaftsverbände warnten in einem Brief an Kanzleramtsministerin Nina Warken (CDU) nun, diese Steuer “im Schnellverfahren” ohne Ressortbeteiligung und Kabinettsbeschluss einzuführen. Das Kanzleramt müsse das Bundesfinanzministerium hier stoppen, forderten die Verbände, darunter […]
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Spain’s prime minister on Monday called a snap election for November 29, after parliament rejected housing relief measures proposed by his minority government amid nationwide protests. The defeat on Friday was just the latest political setback for the Socialist premier Pedro Sanchez, one of the few left-leaning government leaders still in power in the European […]
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