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AFP, Published on 26/09/2021
» LONDON: Britain will issue up to 10,500 temporary work visas to lorry drivers and poultry workers to ease chronic staff shortages, the government announced Saturday, in a U-turn on post-Brexit immigration policy.
AFP, Published on 12/05/2021
» WASHINGTON: Fears the shutdown of a major fuel pipeline network would cause a gasoline shortage led to some panic buying and prompted US regulators on Tuesday to temporarily suspend clean fuel requirements in three eastern states and the nation's capital.
AFP, Published on 08/08/2020
» OTTAWA: Ottawa will hit American aluminum products with C$3.6 billion (US$2.7 billion) in counter-tariffs, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday, in response to "absurd" US levies announced on Canadian goods.
AFP, Published on 31/01/2019
» APATOU, France: Honda all-terrain vehicles have replaced mules as the beast of burden of choice, but the wildcat mining camps of French Guiana are governed by the same rules and violence that have marked gold rushes since the 19th century.
AFP, Published on 17/09/2016
» VIENNA - Austrian energy drink maker Red Bull said it posted record profits of €501 million ($559 million) in 2015, an increase of 35%, according to the economics magazine Trend.