BRUSSELS: Eurozone inflation slowed sharply in March while US price increases eased last month as well, official data showed Friday, offering some relief to policymakers. The data released on both sides of the Atlantic will provide central banks some respite as they carefully balance taming inflation with interest rate rises,
WASHINGTON: US officials proposed Friday guidelines that widen access to electric vehicle subsidies, bringing relief to countries like Japan and potentially the EU amid their fears of being excluded from Washington’s spending bonanza. President Joe Biden’s ambitious climate action plan, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), funnels some $370 billion into
LÜSCHERZ (Switzerland): Fifteen people were injured Friday when two trains derailed as stormy winds lashed northwestern Switzerland, police said. The incidents, on regional passenger rail lines, took place within 20 minutes of each other, and about 30 kilometres apart, north of the Swiss capital Bern. Three people were injured in
BUCHA: President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Friday to defeat Russia, speaking alongside European leaders in Bucha one year after Moscow’s troops withdrew from the Ukrainian town that has become synonymous with war crimes allegations. Russian President Vladimir Putin meanwhile unveiled a new foreign policy doctrine in which the West poses an “existential”
BAGHDAD: A sandstorm enveloped central Iraq, including Baghdad, on Friday, the first such weather event to hit the arid country this year. In 2022, Iraq experienced more than a dozen sandstorms, an unprecedented number that was attributed to desertification. Iraqis who ventured outside on Friday afternoon were greeted with the
JENNIFER Aniston said she wishes we could laugh more at ourselves, rather than having to police every word in comedies. “Comedy has evolved, movies have evolved,” the “Friends” star, 54, told AFP in Paris, where her new film “Murder Mystery 2” with Adam Sandler, is set. “Now it’s a little
Gwyneth Paltrow is not liable for an accident on a swanky US ski slope, a jury ruled on Thursday, as it dismissed a claim from a retired optometrist. Terry Sanderson, 76, had alleged a collision in Utah with the star left him with four broken ribs and lasting psychological damage, for
BERLIN: Britain’s Charles III will address the German parliament on Thursday, becoming the first monarch to do so, on the occasion of his inaugural state visit as king. Germany marks the first trip abroad for Charles since ascending the throne, which is being interpreted as a “strong gesture” to build
NEW YORK: Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in New York on Wednesday for a visit that has triggered threats of reprisal by China if she meets with House speaker Kevin McCarthy — and US warnings for Beijing not to overreact. Tsai is stopping over in the United States en route
MANILA: At least 31 people died and 230 were rescued after a fire engulfed a ferry in the southern Philippines, authorities said on Thursday. The Lady Mary Joy 3 was travelling from Zamboanga City on Mindanao Island to Jolo Island in Sulu province when the fire broke out late Wednesday,
