Does vaping offer an opportunity for smokers to kick their deadly tobacco habit, or pose a vast new health threat to the world’s young people? This long-smouldering question has again come to the forefront in the run-up to a tobacco summit being held by the World Health Organization next week. It will likely be the … Read more
VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Capstone Copper Corp. (“Capstone”, “CS” or the “Company”) (TSX: CS) (ASX: CSC) today announced that the Australian Securities Exchange (“ASX”) approved the Company’s secondary listing on the ASX. Capstone Copper was admitted to the official list of the ASX, as an ASX Foreign Exempt Listing, on Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (AEDT) (Tuesday, … Read more
Turkey’s central bank chief Hafize Gaye Erkan said Friday she was resigning after less than a year in office over a media scandal involving her family. The respected former Wall Street executive’s decision threatens to unsettle Turkey’s nascent recovery from an economic crisis that saw the annual inflation rate reach 85 percent in 2022. Erkan … Read more
Some grassroots loyalists in a unionist area of Northern Ireland have been left dismayed by this week’s deal struck between the main pro-UK party and the British government, venting their anger at a recent gathering. After a two-year boycott by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the agreement it has reached on the UK region’s post-Brexit … Read more
French authorities said Friday the worst of a crisis that saw farmers block roads for days was over, as protesters began lifting barricades, but demonstrations persisted elsewhere in Europe including Spain, Italy and Greece. In some of the fiercest among the EU-wide protests, French farmers had been out in force for more than a week, … Read more
Fighting in Gaza dragged on into Friday with scores reported killed overnight, after mediator Qatar said Hamas had given its “initial” approval to a hostage-prisoner exchange deal that would pause its war with Israel. Hamas’s health ministry said 105 people were killed overnight from Thursday to Friday, while the group’s press office reported raids and … Read more
A truck laden with gas canisters exploded in a densely populated area of the Kenyan capital, setting off a huge blaze that killed three people and injured 280, the government said Friday. The blast ignited a huge ball of fire in a residential area in the southeast of Nairobi, ravaging many properties and vehicles and … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is engaged in intense political manoeuvring as pressure grows at home and abroad to release hostages held in Gaza and bring fighting to a halt. A proposal to free the hostages in exchange for a pause in Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian territory is being studied by Hamas leaders after … Read more
If the main opposition Labour party wins the next UK general election as opinion polls indicate, then a familiar sight will appear outside the prime minister’s official residence the next day: removal vans. The overnight transition, unique in major Western democracies, contrasts with the roughly two months’ preparation for an incoming US administration and around … Read more
Coles Supermarkets will deploy Palantir platforms to all 850+ stores in Australia DENVER & SYDNEY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$PLTR–Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) (“Palantir”), a leading provider of AI systems, and Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd (ASX: COL) (“Coles”), one of the leading Australian supermarket, retail and consumer services chains, announced today a 3-year partnership to deliver a … Read more
