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Fed's Beige Book shows moderate economic growth and lower inflation

Fed’s Beige Book shows moderate economic growth and lower inflation

The U.S. economy grew at a moderate pace in the third quarter, with a number of regions reporting flat or declining activity, the Federal Reserve said in its Beige Book survey of regional business contacts. Employment also rose slightly, according to Wednesday’s report. Job turnover has decreased and contacts in several districts plan to be ...

Google brings AI to US broadcast of Paris Olympics

Google brings AI to US broadcast of Paris Olympics

Alphabet’s Google to introduce artificial intelligence to US broadcasts of Paris Olympics, which will allow sports commentators to use AI to explain competitionsthe technology company announced Thursday together with NBCUniversal and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. Google will be named the official AI search engine partner of Team USA, marking the first partnership ...

Milei's economic reforms cause the greatest inequality in Argentina since 2005

Milei’s economic reforms cause the greatest inequality in Argentina since 2005

President Javier Milei’s drastic economic reforms have sent income inequality soaring in Argentina, testing how much his voters can tolerate his “shock therapy.” According to the latest available data, wages for the country’s large informal workforce rose 136% year-on-year in April, almost half the 248% growth rate recorded among wage workers in the formal private ...

Satellite images show oil slick in Red Sea after Houthi attacks

Satellite images show oil slick in Red Sea after Houthi attacks

An oil slick stretching more than 200 kilometers has appeared in the Red Sea, satellite images show, a new environmental disaster in a waterway where commercial ships are under siege by attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militants. The patch stretches from about 96 kilometers northwest of the Yemeni city of Hodeidah and continues north, the images ...

Orban tells EU that re-elected Trump would act as mediator between Russia and Ukraine

Orban tells EU that re-elected Trump would act as mediator between Russia and Ukraine

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is ready to “immediately” act as a peace mediator in the war between Russia and Ukraine if elected in November, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a letter to EU leaders. The letter, addressed to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and shared with all EU ...

Argentine scientists discover the oldest human record in South America

Argentine scientists discover the oldest human record in South America

The remains of the glyptodont, belonging to the genus Neosclerocalyptus, an ancient relative of the current mules and hairy ones that became extinct 10,000 years agoshowed cut marks that followed patterns similar to those seen on the bones of animals consumed by ancient hunter-gatherers. “The marks we found were initially linear marks without any other ...

Roberta Metsola, first woman elected to repeat term in the European Parliament

Roberta Metsola, first woman elected to repeat term in the European Parliament

Roberta Metsola won broad support on Tuesday for a new term as President of the European Parliament, becoming the first woman to win a second term at the head of the EU assembly. Metsola, a Maltese lawmaker who in 2022 became the first woman in 20 years to head the European Union’s legislative body, She ...

Trump names Ohio Senator JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate

Trump names Ohio Senator JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate

Donald Trump, who has officially received the Republican nomination for the race for the White House, selected James David Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio, as his running mate on Monday.elevating a politician who once criticized the former president in acidic terms but has since become one of his staunchest defenders. The news, published on ...

YPF Luz announces construction of solar park with an investment of US$170 million

YPF Luz announces construction of solar park with an investment of US$170 million

The “El Quemado I” Photovoltaic Solar Park, in Mendoza, will allow YPF Luz to reach 915 MW of renewable installed capacity The unit of electricity of the pArgentine state oil company YPF Light announced on Monday that it will invest around US$170 million to build a solar park in the central province of MendozaThe project ...