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French pop festival subsidy withdrawn over Kneecap appearance
AFP, Published on 17/07/2025
» NANTERRE - A town that hosts one of France's biggest pop festivals announced on Wednesday that it was withdrawing its subsidy to the event because controversial Irish rappers Kneecap had been booked to play.
German inflation drops on gas bill subsidy
AFP, Published on 03/01/2023
» FRANKFURT (GERMANY): German inflation eased in December for a second straight month, preliminary data showed Tuesday, as government interventions helped bring down energy prices.
UK looks to EU to break Brexit talks impasse
AFP, Published on 03/10/2020
» BRUSSELS: Britain and the European Union on Friday said post-Brexit trade talks remained deadlocked on key areas, as London urged Brussels to give ground to avoid a damaging "no-deal" at the end of the year.
Canada MPs pass vast pandemic economic aid programme
AFP, Published on 12/04/2020
» MONTREAL: Canada's lower house of parliament passed a wage subsidy program Saturday heralded as the largest economic measure in the country since World War II, to help businesses and their employees get through the coronavirus crisis.
Huawei moves to overturn 'unlawful' US subsidy ban
AFP, Published on 05/12/2019
» SHENZHEN: Chinese telecoms giant Huawei said on Thursday it has petitioned a US court to overturn a ban that prevents carriers in rural America from buying the firm's equipment by tapping an $8.5-billion federal fund.
Czech churches cry foul over Communist tax plan
AFP, Published on 15/07/2018
» PRAGUE - Czech churches are up in arms against Communist Party plans to tax billions in compensation being paid by the state in return for assets, mostly land, seized by the Communists during their Cold War rule.
South Korea's President Park seeks more time from prosecutors
AFP, Published on 17/11/2016
» SEOUL - South Korean President Park Geun-Hye will not be ready to appear before prosecutors until next week despite their demand to question her sooner over a snowballing political scandal, her lawyer said Thursday.
India's budget shuns big-bang reforms, say experts
AFP, Published on 01/03/2015
» NEW DELHI - The Indian government's budget was praised Sunday as balancing the need to boost business and to help the poor, but some experts were disappointed at a lack of big-bang reforms to Asia's third largest economy.
Kerry arrives in India to reboot ties with Modi
AFP, Published on 30/07/2014
» US Secretary of State John Kerry flew into India on Wednesday for ice-breaking talks with new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, forecasting a transformation in Washington's troubled relations with New Delhi.
Thai senate speaker suspended for charter bill
AFP, Published on 21/03/2014
» A Thai anti-corruption panel suspended the senate speaker Thursday for supporting a failed legislative attempt by the party of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to make the upper house fully elected.