French lawmakers are expected Monday to anchor the right to abortion in the country’s constitution, in a global first that has garnered overwhelming public support. Issued on: 04/03/2024 – 04:02 3 min A congress of both houses of parliament in Versailles starting at 3:30 pm (1430 GMT) should find the three-fifths majority needed for the … Read more
Venezuela set new conditions for elections this year, flouting a US-brokered agreement and potentially triggering tougher sanctions by Washington. The changes could bring forward the date of vote and weaken guarantees of international monitoring, according to the definitive document with the proposals. President Nicolás Maduro’s government signed the new deal during a meeting with allies … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. disclosed a wider web of Chinese government stakes in its business units than previously known, following an inquiry from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The Hangzhou-based e-commerce pioneer said in filingsBloomberg Terminal in the US and Hong Kong over the weekend that more than a dozen of its entities are … Read more
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban confirmed that his country will remove the last obstacle to Sweden’s NATO accession after the Nordic country agreed to sell Gripen jet fighters to Budapest. The Hungarian parliament will take the “necessary decisions” to ratify the Nordic country’s NATO accession early next week, Orban said at a press conference with … Read more
Eric Foucault is driving his hulking green tractor more slowly than he can walk. Shouting into his mobile phone above the cacophony of engines and horns, the farmer from south of Paris is one of 200 others clogging up the highway into the French capital. Foucault and his fellow protesters are restless, their list of … Read more
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The CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI), which tracks hiring trends among thousands of companies with 300 or fewer employees across the U.S., indicated a seasonally adjusted decrease of 0.12% in January. This is a month where businesses shed holiday-related staff, so January’s report is within expectations. In January, 14% of companies in the index … Read more
The US economy is showing “remarkable strength” compared with Europe, where countries are struggling more with tighter monetary policy and the shocks of the energy price surge in recent years, OECD Chief Economist Clare Lombardelli said. The Paris-based organization revised up its forecasts for US growth next year while it cut expectations for most of … Read more
DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand government, in a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami at his residence on Sunday evening, approved the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) draft report.The approved draft, which a five-member UCC panel had submitted to the government on Friday, will now be tabled during a specially-convened assembly session scheduled for February … Read more
If the US stock market goes down a little from here, it “could go down a lot.” That’s the view of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. tactical specialist Scott Rubner, who warned in a note to clients on Thursday that the “pain trade is now lower, not higher from here.” Source link