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Spain struggles to stamp out drug trade in poor so...
The killing of two police by drug traffickers has focused attention on smuggling networks in southern Spain, where poverty makes i...
Japanese auto giant Toyota posts record net profit
Toyota reported record annual net profit of more than $30 billion on Wednesday but the world's largest automaker by sales warned t...
Rubbish, climate change help boost Portugal's whit...
Above a flowering meadow in southern Portugal, three white stork nestlings click their beaks, adding to the chorus of a thriving s...
Mongolia's wildlife at risk from overgrazing
The icy peaks of Jargalant Mountain are supposed to belong to snow leopards, whose numbers have dwindled to fewer than 1,000 in Mo...
Toyota posts record yearly net income, revenue
Toyota said Wednesday that it enjoyed a record net profit of 4.94 trillion yen ($31.9 billion) in the year to March on revenues of...
Global car giants seek tech allies in China's cutt...
Struggling foreign automakers in China are looking for help from local tech giants to try to stay competitive in the world's bigge...
US centenarian to marry at Normandy, 80 years afte...
Americans Harold Terens and Jeanne Swerlin promise their courtship is "better than Romeo and Juliet": He is 100, she's 96, and the...
Sideways day on Wall Street as London notches anot...
The rally in Wall Street stocks took a pause Tuesday while many overseas bourses pushed higher amid renewed optimism that the US F...
China's Xi lands in Serbia after talking Ukraine,...
Xi Jinping arrived in Belgrade on Tuesday evening, after French President Emmanuel Macron hosted a high altitude lunch at a childh...
Argentina introduces 10,000-peso banknote
Inflation-battered Argentina on Tuesday introduced a 10,000-peso banknote, worth the equivalent of about $11 -- five times the fac...
TikTok challenges potential US ban in court
TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a legal challenge against the United States on Tuesday, taking aim at a law...
Disney reports small loss but sees improvement in...
Disney reported higher revenues Tuesday on a strong performance by its theme parks division and an improving streaming business, b...
Biden slams 'ferocious' rise in anti-Semitism amid...
US President Joe Biden condemned a "ferocious surge" in anti-Semitism on Tuesday, in a Holocaust memorial speech that came at a fr...
Ferrari confirms 2024 guidance after first quarter...
Italian luxury carmaker Ferrari on Tuesday posted a double digit rise in both profits and sales for the first quarter of 2024, and...
Stock markets climb on lower rates optimism
Stock markets on Tuesday continued to rally over optimism that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year.
US, allies sanction LockBit leader over ransomware...
The United States, Britain and Australia unveiled sanctions Tuesday against the leader of the Russian ransomware outfit LockBit, w...
Boeing Starliner crewed mission postponed until at...
The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spaceship will have to wait until at least Friday to give ground teams time to analy...
Stock markets mostly rise on lower rates optimism
Stock markets extended the week's rally Tuesday on optimism that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year.
Macron hosts Xi in French mountains to press messa...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday was to host Chinese leader Xi Jinping at one of his beloved childhood haunts in the Py...
Major German companies warn against vote for extre...
Germany's biggest companies said Tuesday they have formed an alliance to campaign against extremism ahead of key EU Parliament ele...
Rescuers search for survivors after deadly S.Afric...
Rescuers scrambled Tuesday to search for some 50 people trapped under rubble after the collapse of a multi-storey building under c...
Most markets rise after Wall St rally as US rate o...
Most markets built on the latest global rally Tuesday as optimism that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year co...
Coppola, Lucas, Schrader: 'New Hollywood' swansong...
It is an offer they still can't refuse: Francis Ford Coppola will lead a parade of veteran American movie titans back to the Canne...
Saudi Aramco says Q1 profit down 14.5 percent
Oil giant Saudi Aramco said Tuesday its first-quarter net profit dipped 14.5 percent on year to $27.27 billion as the Gulf kingdom...
UBS back in profit after Credit Suisse takeover lo...
Swiss banking giant UBS on Tuesday said first quarter net profit rose 71 percent to nearly $1.8 billion, far exceeding expectation...
Saudi Aramco's Q1 profit down 14.5 percent: statem...
Oil giant Saudi Aramco announced first-quarter net profit of $27.27 billion on Tuesday, down 14.5 percent from last year as the Gu...
London's gentlemen-only club votes on admitting wo...
One of London's oldest gentlemen's clubs on Tuesday votes on whether to start accepting women amid a row that has bitterly divided...
UBS net profit up 71% after two quarters in the re...
Swiss banking giant UBS on Tuesday said first quarter net profit rose 71 percent to nearly $1.8 billion after two quarters in the...
Amazon says will invest $9 billion in Singapore
Amazon said Tuesday it would invest US$9 billion in Singapore over the next four years to expand its cloud computing capabilities...
Asia tracks another rally on Wall St as US rate op...
Asian markets built on the latest global rally Tuesday as optimism that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year c...
Stocks rise on renewed hopes of US Fed rate cuts
Stock markets advanced Monday on renewed optimism that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year, as well as on a p...
Macron thanks China's Xi for not imposing duties o...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday thanked Chinese leader Xi Jinping for not imposing "provisional" customs duties on Fren...