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Trump announces steep new tariffs, reviving trade war
AFP, Published on 26/09/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump announced Thursday punishing tariffs on pharmaceuticals, big-rig trucks, home renovation fixtures and furniture, reviving his global trade war.
Volvo Cars swings into loss on EVs, tariffs
AFP, Published on 17/07/2025
» STOCKHOLM - Volvo Cars announced on Thursday it had swung into loss in the second quarter, after it took an impairment charge for its electric cars, booked restructuring charges and dealt with a slower, tariff-troubled market.
UN expert says firms 'profiting' from 'genocide' of Palestinians
AFP, Published on 04/07/2025
» GENEVA - UN rights expert Francesca Albanese on Thursday denounced companies she said "profited from the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide", in a report that provoked a furious response from Israel.
Trump goads China after Beijing retaliates in global trade war
AFP, Published on 05/04/2025
» WASHINGTON — United States President Donald Trump goaded a "panicked" China on Friday after the chief US economic rival retaliated against his tariffs and he dismissed stock market panic over the growing global trade war, touting the chance to "get rich."
Hertz to buy some 175,000 GM EVs through 2027
AFP, Published on 21/09/2022
» NEW YORK: US rental car giant Hertz will buy up to 175,000 electric vehicles from General Motors by the end of 2027, the companies announced Tuesday, as the auto industry grapples with concerns over climate change and petroleum dependency.
China's Chengdu extends Covid lockdown
AFP, Published on 08/09/2022
» BEIJING - The Chinese megacity of Chengdu has extended a Covid-19 lockdown in most areas, maintaining curbs that have ground business to a halt and confined the majority of its 21 million residents to their homes.
The Arctic's tricky quest for sustainable tourism
AFP, Published on 27/05/2022
» LONGYEARBYEN - Home to polar bears, the midnight sun and the northern lights, a Norwegian archipelago perched high in the Arctic is trying to find a way to profit from its pristine wilderness without ruining it.
Northvolt opens Europe's first homegrown battery gigafactory
AFP, Published on 29/12/2021
» STOCKHOLM - Swedish battery group Northvolt said Wednesday it has launched its "gigafactory" in northern Sweden, the first of its kind to be undertaken by a European company on the continent.
Sweden didn't lock down, but economy to plunge anyway
AFP, Published on 07/06/2020
» STOCKHOLM - Unlike most countries, Sweden never locked down during the coronavirus pandemic, largely keeping businesses operating, but the economy appears to be taking a hard hit nonetheless.
Baby steps, boom times and Tiger: pro golf in China marks 25 years
AFP, Published on 29/04/2020
» HONG KONG - Twenty-five years ago professional tournament golf took its first steps in China and, despite a few stumbles, paved the way to establishing the sport in a country where it was once banned as a "bourgeois pursuit for millionaires".