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Russia attempts to end dollar dominance and bypass Western sanctions
• 7:48 PM
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At this year's BRICS summit, one of the main issues on the agenda is Russian President Vladimir Putin's idea for a payment system to rival SWIFT and bypass Western sanctions. Also, a UN report shows the impact of war has set back development in Gaza by 6
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Harris raises record $1 billion in a single quarter as polls show extremely tight race
• 12:53 AM
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With just two weeks to go before American voters choose their next president, Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump by a wide margin in the money race, having raised nearly $1 billion in a single quarter. But first, as Israel continues its war against Ha
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Monday, october 21, 2024
Cuba restores electricity to part of Havana, but crisis far from over
• 7:35 PM
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Cuba has restored 50 percent of electricity to Havana following Hurricane Oscar, but a chronic lack of fuel and deteriorating infrastructure means the crisis is not over yet. Also, the AI boom has caused a surge in electricity demand and in Taiwan, atomi
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Trial opens over mining giant BHP's liability in 2015 Mariana dam disaster
• 10:15 AM
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A long-awaited civil trial related to one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters, the 2015 Mariana dam collapse, is getting underway in London. More than 620,000 people, including relatives of 19 people killed in toxic mud, are having their cases hear
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Friday, october 18, 2024
Thursday, october 17, 2024
ECB cuts interest rates again amid sluggish eurozone growth
• 8:44 PM
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European Central Bank policymakers have decided to lower interest rates by a quarter percentage point, a third such cut this year as inflation across the 20-member eurozone came down to 1.7 percent in September. ECB President Christine Lagarde says that
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Sustainable sipping: How the drinks industry can reduce its carbon footprint
• 2:38 PM
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Just how sustainable is your happy hour? The beverage industry is among those facing pressure to mitigate its impact on the environment. In 2021, it accounted for 3.8 percent of global carbon emissions. We take a closer look in this edition of People & P
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China pledges more support to troubled property sector, but disappoints investors
• 9:43 AM
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China's Housing Minister Ni Hong has announced a series of measures to support the country's beleaguered real estate sector, including a ramping-up of lending for unfinished projects. However, the move failed to impress investors and will add to doubts o
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Wednesday, october 16, 2024
Amazon joins Google, Microsoft in going nuclear
• 8:48 PM
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As Big Tech companies consume more energy for data centres and artificial intelligence, they're under pressure to commit to clean power sources. Amazon has followed in the footsteps of Google and Microsoft in announcing new deals with nuclear power provi
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Can Europe get up to speed? Turbulent switch to electric vehicles
• 6:11 PM
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Can Europe compete? Part of the answer is on display in Hall 5 of the Paris Motor Show, which opened its doors to the public on Tuesday. Chinese maker BYD is signalling its play for the French market with affordable – albeit subsidised – fully electric m
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Poppins, the French app designed to help kids with dyslexia
• 9:34 AM
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The 2024 Ivy Tech Prize for France's young entrepreneur of the year was awarded on Tuesday to François Vonthron, CEO and co-founder of Poppins. The app was designed to help children with dyslexia by using a video game format, with one independent study s
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Tuesday, october 15, 2024
Boeing seeks to shore up its finances
• 8:48 PM
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Boeing is trying to shore up its struggling finances, to the tune of $35 billion. The US aerospace giant is reeling from six years of safety issues and setbacks, and has recently announced plans to cut 17,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its global workforce.
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Google teams up with nuclear energy startup to power AI data centres
• 10:36 AM
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Tech giant Google is backing US nuclear energy startup Kairos Power to build seven small reactors which will power one of its artificial intelligence data centres. The deal comes as US energy demand is on the rise because of the increasing number of data
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Monday, october 14, 2024
Unleashing the economic potential of second-hand clothing
• 8:52 PM
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Second-hand clothing can help countries meet environmental targets and drive economic growth, but it needs support. A new report says governments need to help unleash the sector's economic potential. Karina Bolin, president of Humana People to People Ita
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Hands off the Doliprane: French outcry over plan to sell popular painkiller to US
• 2:55 PM
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Politicians from across the political spectrum are up in arms over healthcare giant Sanofi's plans to sell France's best-known medical drug Doliprane to US investors, a move critics say would lead to a "loss of sovereignty" for the country in a sensitive
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Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi looks to sell consumer health unit, sparks political uproar
• 8:58 AM
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France's Economy and Industry ministers, Antoine Armand and Marc Ferracci, are heading to Lisieux this Monday to visit the production sites of popular headache reliever Doliprane. The visit takes place after the maker of the pill, French pharma group San
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Thursday, october 10, 2024
Can Europe get its industrial groove back?
• 3:59 PM
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Can European industry regain its competitive edge on the global stage? A new EU report penned by former ECB chief Mario Draghi highlights a growing gap in both productivity and innovation, and warns that businesses will face an "existential challenge" wi
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French PM to present 2025 budget to cabinet with financial markets in mind
• 9:27 AM
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France's Prime Minister Michel Barnier will hold a cabinet meeting this Thursday where he'll unveil his budget plan for 2025. His bid to reduce the deficit from 6.1 percent of GDP will be looked at closely on international bond markets and by the country
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Wednesday, october 9, 2024
Tuesday, october 8, 2024
Trade tensions rise as EU, China impose tariffs
• 8:41 PM
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Global trade tensions are heating up, as China announces new tariffs on imports of European brandy. The move follows the EU decision to raise tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, following similar moves by the US and Canada. Greta Peisch, a partner
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China's plan to boost economy underwhelms markets
• 9:47 AM
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China's economic planners held a highly anticipated press conference this Tuesday to announce new measures that could boost the country's lagging consumer demand. But the measures fell short of expectations for investors on the stock market, who were exp
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Monday, october 7, 2024
Friday, october 4, 2024
Budget squeeze: Digging France out of its fiscal hole
• 5:29 PM
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The French government plans to subject the budget to a €60 billion belt-tightening drive next year in the hope of bringing the deficit down to 5 percent of GDP from an estimated more than 6 percent this year. Two-thirds of that sum are to come from spend
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Harvard students turn Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses into a surveillance nightmare
• 2:23 PM
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Two Harvard students, Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen, say they have hacked a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses and installed facial recognition software, so that merely looking at someone's face will bring up their name, address, age, biography and an
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Thursday, october 3, 2024
Oil prices jump as speculation rises on possible Israeli retaliation against Iran
• 8:00 PM
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US crude oil jumped slightly after US President Joe Biden said he was "discussing" an Israeli strike on Iranian oil facilities. Chaos builds for shippers as US dockworkers enter their third day of strike action. In several cities across the US, the cost
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI sees value nearly double to $157 billion after new funding round
• 9:37 AM
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OpenAI, the company behind artificial Intelligence chatbot ChatGTP, has secured new financing to the tune of $6.6 billion from a variety of investors. The start-up is now valued at $157 billion, on par with such groups as Uber or AT&T. It will have to co
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Wednesday, october 2, 2024
Tuesday, october 1, 2024
Houthi rebels again attack commercial ships in Red Sea
• 8:26 PM
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Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed attacks on an oil tanker and another commercial vessel in the Red Sea on Tuesday, the first such attacks in weeks. The Iran-backed militants started targeting merchant ships last year in support of Hamas in Gaza, prompting
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Dockworkers in US Eastern & Gulf ports go on strike over pay demands
• 10:22 AM
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The union representing 45,000 dockworkers in the United States announced a strike at midnight on Tuesday in American ports all the way from Maine to Texas. The workers are asking for better pay and guarantees against automation as the shipping industry h
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Monday, september 30, 2024
Price of French butter nearly doubles in a year
• 9:00 PM
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The wholesale price of butter in France hit a record high in September, rocketing to €8,180 compared to €4,260 a year earlier, as an epidemic among cows affected production. But first: a new, common digital payment system has been launched in France, Bel
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Hurricane Helene shines light on woes of US home insurance industry
• 9:54 AM
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With private insurer losses expected to top $6 billion, Hurricane Helene is another reminder of climate change's impact on the US home insurance market. Also in this edition: the UK's last coal-fired power plant gets set to shut down after 54 years as th
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Friday, september 27, 2024
'Not a normal company': OpenAI loses another executive as it seeks huge valuation
• 1:44 PM
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OpenAI, the world's most valuable AI startup, has just lost another executive. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati is one of more than 20 key staff who have departed this year, leaving CEO Sam Altman with just one of his fellow co-founders.
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Big Tech's outsize role in fuelling division, extremism: What can be done?
• 9:17 AM
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Amnesty International is accusing big tech platforms of playing an active role in fuelling racist violence. The accusation comes after riots erupted in the UK this summer following the publication of false information on social media, but it also applies
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Ethical shopping in the age of ultra-fast fashion: Time to slow down?
• 8:30 AM
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This week we look at ethical fashion in the age of "direct-to-consumer" giants like China's Shein and Temu. Thanks to their business model based on ultra-fast design and production, consumers can purchase a new look at incredibly low prices. But at what
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Thursday, september 26, 2024
Big Tech's outsize role in fuelling division, extremism: What can be done?
• 11:56 AM
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Amnesty International is accusing big tech platforms of playing an active role in fuelling racist violence. The accusation comes after riots erupted in the UK this summer following the publication of false information on social media, but it also applies
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New EBRD report revises growth forecast downwards for 2024
• 8:42 AM
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development issued an updated report this Thursday on growth prospects in all the regions where it operates. Its Chief Economist Beata Javorcik spoke to FRANCE 24 specifically about the challenges facing the econo
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Wednesday, september 25, 2024
France's 2024 budget deficit could top 6% of GDP, minister warns
• 9:06 PM
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As France's newly-formed government faces pressure to finalise its spending plans for 2025, Budget Minister Laurent Saint-Martin says the state of public finances is worse than was expected only a few days ago, and that this year's budget shortfall could
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Tough talks ahead for Volkswagen and unions over jobs, pay and plant closures
• 9:26 AM
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Executives from Volkswagen and labour leaders are meeting this Wednesday in Hanover to discuss a new labour agreement. In the face of increased competition and high costs, the company has called for drastic cost-cutting measures. In this edition, we look
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Tuesday, september 24, 2024
California sues ExxonMobil for misleading public on plastic recycling
• 9:22 PM
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In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, the US state of California has sued ExxonMobil for fraud over plastic recycling. The state's attorney general accuses the oil giant of deceiving the public for decades by promoting recycling as a solution to plastic waste
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China announces new measures to boost its struggling economy
• 9:18 AM
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The governor of the People's Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, has announced new measures meant to boost the country's ailing economy. China's central bank is lowering its benchmark interest rate as well as reducing the cash requirement that banks are suppos
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Monday, september 23, 2024
Germany warns Italy's UniCredit against 'hostile takeover' of Commerzbank
• 9:01 PM
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned against a "hostile takeover" of Commerzbank, after Italy's UniCredit revealed it had significantly increased its stake in Germany's second-largest bank, from 9 percent to 21 percent. Plus, with New York's Climate
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New French government faces deepening deficit and mounting debt
• 8:45 AM
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France's new economic team is led by two young and relatively unknown members of President Macron's pro-business coalition. They face a host of fiscal challenges as they try to reduce deficits without raising taxes on France's middle class.
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Friday, september 20, 2024
Davos in the French suburbs: How to boost the local economy?
• 1:37 PM
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In this week's show we shine the spotlight on France’s "banlieues": the low-income neighbourhoods that are on the periphery of the country’s largest cities. On September 17th and 18th, the first ever “banlieue economic forum” took place in Paris – provid
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Can your phone blow up? Remote device attacks in Lebanon stoke panic
• 1:19 PM
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This week’s attacks on Hezbollah pagers and radios have spread anxiety among Lebanese people, and a sense that no electronic device is safe. Amid some confusion over how the explosions were triggered, you might be wondering whether you can trust the phon
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Thursday, september 19, 2024
Martinique grapples with major cost of living crisis
• 7:57 PM
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People in Martinique are protesting the cost of living. That's because food products on the island cost up to 42 percent more than in mainland France. Sri Lankans are gearing up for a presidential election – and this year, the economy will be at the top
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Economy high on voters' mind ahead of Sri Lanka presidential election
• 9:02 AM
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Sri Lankan voters will head to the polls this Saturday to choose a new president. We'll see why the economy will be at the heart of the campaign with the financial collapse of 2022 still present in peoples' minds. In 2024, economic indicators have recove
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Wednesday, september 18, 2024
US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for first time in four years
• 9:45 PM
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The US Federal Reserve lowered its key lending rate by a deeper-than-expected 0.5 percent, in its first rate cut in more than four years. The move indicates that while monetary policymakers are confident about taming inflation, their focus has shifted to
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Norway now has more electric vehicles than petrol-powered cars
• 8:59 AM
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Norway's road federation revealed on Tuesday that the number of electric vehicles on its roads was now larger than the number of petrol cars. Though diesel cars are still the most common type of vehicle in the country, EVs could overtake them in 2026. In
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Tuesday, september 17, 2024
EU Commission chief von der Leyen unveils new top team
• 7:50 PM
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After weeks of negotiations, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has unveiled her new top team, giving key economic portfolios to France, Italy and Spain. If approved by the European Parliament, the bloc's top brass will be charged with steeri
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Amazon CEO hopes to rekindle startup spirit by ending remote work
• 9:54 AM
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In a long memo sent to Amazon staff on Monday, CEO Andy Jassy told the tech giant's corporate employees that they would no longer be allowed to work remotely so that they are "better set up to invent, collaborate, and be connected enough to each other".
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Monday, september 16, 2024
Boeing announces hiring freeze, sweeping cost cuts as strike continues
• 8:52 PM
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Boeing has announced a hiring freeze and cost-cutting measures amid a crippling strike at its assembly plants that has brought production of its best-selling jets, including the 737 MAX, to a virtual halt. But first, lawyers for TikTok and ByteDance have
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TikTok heads to court in fight against US order to sell or face ban
• 9:38 AM
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TikTok's lawyers are heading to US federal appeals court to argue that a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell or see the app banned in the country is unconstitutional. Also in this edition: Ukrainian women step up into traditionally "male
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Friday, september 13, 2024
The view from the Olympic finish line: Assessing the impact of the Paris Games
• 2:46 PM
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The athletes have crossed the finish line of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. Now economists are trying their best to accurately assess the economic impact of this global event on the city and on France. Our guest, Wladimir Andreff, is one of them
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Polaris Dawn mission: Valuable space race progress or vanity project?
• 1:18 PM
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The most ambitious mission yet in the billionaire space race saw Jared Isaacman become the first non-professional astronaut to walk in space on Thursday, in partnership with Elon Musk's SpaceX. The Polaris Dawn mission has been welcomed by the aerospace
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Thursday, september 12, 2024
UK to expand ETA entry scheme for all visitors in 2025
• 9:01 PM
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Visa-free travellers going to the UK will have to get permission prior to their visit as the government expands its Electronic Travel Authorisation, or ETA, scheme to all visitors. A similar plan is also in the pipeline for the European Union. Plus, the
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Boeing factory workers to vote on new union contract and strike action
• 10:17 AM
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Boeing workers in Washington and Oregon will be voting on Thursday night on whether to accept a new contract offer that increases wages by 25 percent over the next four years. If the deal is turned down, as has been predicted by union organisers, they wi
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Spain's PM urges EU to drop proposed tariffs on Chinese-made EVs
• 9:18 AM
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As the EU prepares to impose additional, heavy tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars, Spain's prime minister has called on both sides to find a compromise to avoid a trade war. Pedro Sanchez made the comments during a trip to Beijing where he met Preside
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Wednesday, september 11, 2024
Trump, Harris clash on trade and tariff policies during debate
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During Tuesday's US presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump clashed over their plans on foreign trade. In this edition, we take a look at what both of them are advocating when it comes to applying import duties
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US firm Cox Media accused of listening to private conversations to help push targeted ads
• 12:51 AM
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In this Science segment we tell you about how new revelations by the investigative website 404 Media are set to affect the world of digital advertising. The American company Cox Media Group has privately admitted to developing an "active listening" softw
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Tuesday, september 10, 2024
