Kenyan President William Ruto has sacked most of his cabinet after deadly protests against his plan to raise more than $2 billion in new taxes,and indicated that he will turn toward a government that could include members of opposition parties. Ruto has retained his deputy and a senior political appointee, who also deals with foreign ...
U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly fell in June, with the annual increase being the lowest in a year. which reinforced the view that the disinflationary trend is back on track and brings the Federal Reserve one step closer to reducing interest rates. The Consumer Price Index, or CPI, fell 0.1% last month after remaining unchanged in ...
Amazon.com Inc. says its carbon emissions fell for the second year in a row in 2023 as the company reduced spending on new warehouses and cloud computing data centers. The e-commerce giant’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 3% last year to 68.82 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. The reduction was driven by a 13% ...
BHP Group Ltd. to close its loss-making nickel business in Australia at least until early 2027, after a global glut of the metal wreaked havoc on the market. The company will put its Nickel West business on “care and maintenance” from October due to low prices for the metal used in electric vehicle batteries, said ...
Former presidents and prime ministers have sent an open letter to the current leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies in which they urge support for a global tax on billionaires, which they describe as a rare political opportunity. The initiative comes at a time when the Brazilian presidency of the G20, which put the ...
Israeli forces stepped up their offensive in northern and central Gaza on Wednesday, hours after an airstrike targeted a tent camp in which, according to Palestinian authorities, more than twenty people died, and when negotiations to end the fighting were about to resume. Leaflets were dropped on Gaza Citythis time with a map indicating “safe ...
Spain’s Treasury has reduced the interest rate on bills to a more than one-year low, now paying 3.29% for three-month bonds and 3.41% for nine-month bonds. It is the lowest return offered by the Treasury at three months since June of last year and It is more than forty basis points below the maximum of ...
US President Joe Biden vowed to firmly defend Ukraine from Russian invasion at a NATO summit in Washington on Tuesday, using the world stage to try to demonstrate to his domestic and international allies that he can still lead. Biden, 81, has endured 12 days of withering questions about his suitability for office, as some ...
Copa Airlines inaugurated a new route from Panama to Raleigh-Durman, the capital of North Carolina, United States, and the same return route. In this way, the subsidiary airline of Copa Holdings completes 16 cities in which it reaches the United States, and the first in this state. This route operates with two flights, CM466 and ...
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday that Brazil can help Bolivia in the exploration of natural gas and critical minerals to generate development in the country. Lula made the comments in Asuncion, where he participated in the Mercosur summit. “We need to discuss how to exploit (…) critical minerals in Bolivia. How ...
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