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Asia-Pacific leaders call for sharing trade benefits at Apec summit

Asia-Pacific leaders call for sharing trade benefits at Apec summit

Given the worsening fractures in the world trade order, Asia-Pacific leaders on Saturday adopted a joint statement that underlined the need for resilience and shared benefits in tradeat the end of the annual APEC summit. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum meeting, hosted this year by South Korea, It unfolded under the shadow of rising geopolitical ...

Mark Zuckerberg drops to fifth place on Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Mark Zuckerberg drops to fifth place on Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Mark Zuckerberg fell to fifth place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the lowest in nearly two years, as investors spooked by Meta’s planned $30 billion debt sale sent the company’s shares soaring amid a wave of tech profits that shook the ranks of the world’s richest. Meta shares fell 11%, the most since 2022, after ...

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

Argentina will request appeals from the US to annul YPF ruling of US$16.1 billion

A US appeals court will study on Wednesday whether Argentina must pay investors US$16.1 billion after taking control of the state oil company YPF more than a decade ago. The United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, based in Manhattan, will review the ruling handed down in September 2023 by District Judge Loretta ...

Netanyahu says that Israel will begin negotiations to end war in Gaza

Benjamin Netanyahu ordered powerful bombings in the Gaza Strip

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a series of intense bombings on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.justifying the measure on alleged violations of the ceasefire by the Islamist group Hamas. As reported by the president’s office in a statement published on his X account, “after security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu instructed the army to immediately ...

Trump attacks Fed president and points to a replacement in a few months

Trump attacks Fed president and points to a replacement in a few months

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that there is a long list of people who could take over the Federal Reserve.and criticized current Chairman Jerome Powell, as the central bank prepares to begin its two-day meeting. “We have an incompetent Fed chief… we have a bad Fed chairman, but in a few months he will ...

Catherine Connolly, a left-wing independent, wins the Irish presidency

Catherine Connolly, a left-wing independent, wins the Irish presidency

Catherine Connolly, a veteran legislator on the far left of the Irish political spectrumwas elected president by a landslide margin on Saturday, in a harsh rebuke to the recently re-elected center-right coalition. Connolly, 68, a long-time critic of the European Union in an Ireland that is overwhelmingly pro-EU and backed by the left-dominated oppositionwas not ...

Helicopter and US fighter plane collide in South China Sea in separate incidents

Helicopter and US fighter plane collide in South China Sea in separate incidents

A US Navy helicopter and fighter jet crashed separately into the South China Sea within the space of an hour during routine operations from the same aircraft carrier on Sunday.The US Navy said, adding that all personnel were safe. The incidents occurred while President Donald Trump was visiting Asia. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force ...

USA says that breach of the country in anti -drug struggle is for political leadership

Trump says he will increase tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario stance

President Donald Trump said he will increase US tariffs on Canada by 10% in response to an anti-tariff announcement from the province of Ontario which is affecting one of the largest bilateral trade relations in the world. Trump’s Truth Social post follows days of public clashes over the adwhich invoked former President Ronald Reagan’s stance ...

The Trump administration considers the addition of 36 countries to travel ban

Rubio says Taiwan should not worry about US-China talks

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that Taiwan should not worry about upcoming US-China trade talks in Malaysia. “I don’t think we’re going to see a trade deal where, if what people are worried about is that we get a trade deal or a favorable trade deal in exchange for withdrawing from ...