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Centre-right parties take early lead in NZ vote
AFP, Published on 14/10/2023
» WELLINGTON - A centre-right coalition Saturday surged to an early lead in New Zealand's election, as voters punished an incumbent Labour government rocked by Jacinda Ardern's surprise resignation earlier this year.
UK finance minister announces boost for lowest earners
AFP, Published on 02/10/2023
» MANCHESTER (UNITED KINGDOM) - The UK minimum wage will go up next year, finance minister Jeremy Hunt said Monday, as the ruling Conservative party positions itself to battle an expected general election.
'Waiting for our dead': Anger builds at Turkey's quake response
AFP, Published on 08/02/2023
» GAZIANTEP (TURKEY) - With every passing moment, Ebru Firat knows the chances dim of finding her cousin alive under the rubble of a flattened building in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.
TotalEnergies's 'superprofit' renews windfall tax debate
AFP, Published on 27/10/2022
» PARIS - TotalEnergies said Thursday surging global oil and gas prices helped it post a massive jump in profits in the third quarter as France is riven over taxing windfall profits of energy companies.
Africa's longest oil pipeline takes shape in Niger
AFP, Published on 13/10/2022
» GAYA (NIGER) - Chinese and Nigerien workers haul giant steel pipes over mounds of earth as heavily armed soldiers keep guard.
Striking French refinery workers defy government threats
AFP, Published on 12/10/2022
» PARIS - Striking French oil refinery employees voted Wednesday to maintain blockades now in their third week, despite a government order for some of them to return to work in a bid to get fuel supplies flowing.
Germany agrees 65bn-euro inflation relief package
AFP, Published on 04/09/2022
» BERLIN:The German government on Sunday unveiled a new multi-billion euro plan to help housesholds cope with soaring prices, and said it was eyeing windfall profits from energy companies to help fund the relief.
French presidency: What are Macron and Le Pen promising?
AFP, Published on 11/04/2022
» PARIS - Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right veteran Marine Le Pen finished top in the first round of France's presidential election Sunday.
Sri Lanka runs out of diesel, faces longest-ever blackout
AFP, Published on 31/03/2022
» COLOMBO: Diesel was no longer on sale across Sri Lanka on Thursday, crippling transport as the crisis-hit country's 22 million people endure record-long power blackouts.
10-hour power cuts in Sri Lanka as crisis worsens
AFP, Published on 30/03/2022
» COLOMBO - Sri Lanka on Wednesday began imposing record nationwide 10-hour daily power cuts as it ran out of hydro-electricity on top of a severe shortage of fuel.