In this file photo taken on June 16, 2022, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a press conference after the meeting of NATO Ministers of Defense in NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The member states of NATO should commit to spending at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense by next year, Stoltenberg said […]
In this file photo dated Jan 20, 2021, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden exit the east steps of the US Capitol following the inauguration in Washington. (PHOTO / AP) Democratic US voters express less support for President Joe Biden running for a second term 2024 than Republicans do for former President Donald […]
Wind turbines are pictured on the first French offshore wind farm off the coasts of La Turballe, western France on Sept 30, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS – A rise in wind and solar production, together with more nuclear electricity, will dominate growth in global power supply over the next three years, curbing the emissions […]
Vancouver, BC, Feb 7, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Doubleview Gold Corp. (TSXV: DBG) (OTCQB: DBLVF) (FSE: 1D4) (“Doubleview”) is pleased to announce that its first attempt at recovering scandium in a sequential purification process has recovered 56% (fifty six percent) of scandium in tailings from its Hat Copper, Gold, Cobalt property. Scandium […]
An internally displaced man pours wheat grains into a sack at Berley Camp, 20 kilometers from the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on Jan10, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ROME – World food prices fell in January for a 10th consecutive month, and are now down some 18 percent from a record high hit last March following […]
Prices have risen on almost 1,000 drugs in the United States in the first three weeks of January, the most increases in January since at least 2011, according to a nonprofit organization that tracks drug prices. The price increases on 985 drugs ranged from 1 to 26 percent, with median increases of 5 percent, data […]
A Tunisian votes in the second round of the legislative elections in Tunis, Tunisia on Jan 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) TUNIS – The preliminary turnout of Tunisia's second round of legislative elections was 11.3 percent, the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) said on Sunday."The turnout in the second round of legislative elections in […]
A Tunisian votes in the second round of the legislative elections in Tunis, Tunisia on Jan 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) TUNIS – The preliminary turnout of Tunisia's second round of legislative elections was 11.3 percent, the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) said on Sunday."The turnout in the second round of legislative elections in […]
European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 17, 2022. (YVES HERMAN / REUTERS) BRUSSELS – The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Luxembourg have urged the European Union to fix a date by which new trucks and buses sold in Europe must have zero carbon dioxide emissions. The European Commission is […]
People walk along a street in a shopping district in London on Jan 2, 2023. (KIN CHEUNG / AP) LONDON – Inflation-pinched British consumers cut their shopping by the most in the key month of December in at least 25 years, official data showed on Friday, dashing hopes for a Christmas boost for the country's […]
A gas burner is pictured on a cooker in a private home in Bordeaux, soutwestern France, Dec 13, 2012. (REGIS DUVIGNAU / REUTERS) BERLIN — Europeans have dialled down their heating this winter, apparently heeding government calls to conserve energy amid the Ukraine crisis, with some delaying switching it on by almost a month and […]
Germany's employment market hit a post-reunification high in 2022, new data from the country's official statistics agency has shown, but there are fears that the strength of the labor market could force up wages, putting more pressure on interest rates. The country has such a position of economic significance within the 20-member eurozone that its […]
This undated file photo shows a worker operating an equipment of GCA (Gas Connect Austria) and TAG (Trans Austria Gas pipelines) at one of the largest interconnection gas hubs in Europe at Baumgarten an der March, Lower Austria. (JOE KLAMAR / AFP) Europe faces a much tougher task to rebuild gas stocks next year compared […]
In this April 29, 2021 file photo, a coal-fired RWE power plant steams on a sunny day in Neurath, Germany. (MARTIN MEISSNER / AP) BRUSSELS – European Union negotiators reached a political deal on Sunday to overhaul the bloc's carbon market, cutting planet-heating emissions faster and imposing new CO2 costs on fuels used in road […]
HONG KONG, Dec 15, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Companies in the Hang Seng Index rank in the midrange internationally in terms of the quality of their ESG reporting. This is the finding of the Global ESG Monitor 2022 (GEM), Regional Report Hong Kong/China (https://globalesgmonitor.com/download-report/), published today. The GEM is considered an international […]
Passengers wait at the concourse of Euston station, as rail workers strike over pay and terms, in London, Britain December 13, 2022. (TOBY MELVILLE / REUTERS) LONDON — The United Kingdom recorded the highest number of working days lost to labor disputes in October for more than 10 years, official data showed on Tuesday, as […]
European Union flags fly outside the European Commission building in Brussel on June 16, 2022. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) BRUSSELS – The European Union agreed on Tuesday on a new law to prevent companies from selling into the EU market soy, beef, coffee and other commodities linked to deforestation around the world. The law will […]
A vaccinator draws a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pediatric vaccine in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, US, Dec 5, 2021. (HANNAH BEIER / REUTERS) LOS ANGELES – New Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounted for over half of new COVID-19 cases in the United States in the latest week, according to the latest estimates of the US Centers […]
A man receives a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Babington Hospital in Belper on Dec 16, 2021. (OLI SCARFF / AFP) GOSPORT, England/LONDON – Chukwudubem Ifeajuna, a nurse in the south of England, loves his job, but next month will walk out for two days as part of British nurses' biggest ever strike […]
Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema (center) attends the 33rd Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit, at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, on Feb 10, 2020. (MICHAEL TEWELDE / AFP) DAKAR – Equatorial Guinea votes on Sunday in a general election in which President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the world's longest-standing president, is expected to […]