OSLO, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) — As the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) approaches, Henning Kristoffersen, head of Innovation Norway in China, expressed optimism about growing opportunities for Norwegian businesses to deepen presence in Chinese market in a recent interview with Xinhua. Highlighting last year’s participation of Norwegian companies in the CIIE, Kristoffersen, also commercial … Read more
PARIS (Reuters) – Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili called on Tuesday for international pressure to force a review of parliamentary elections she said were rigged. Official results said the governing Georgian Dream party won nearly 54% of the vote, but Zourabichvili and pro-Western opposition parties have rejected this. Thousands of people protested on Monday night in … Read more
(Reuters) – More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions for the Washington Post by midday on Monday, following the newspaper’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president, National Public Radio reported. Not all cancellations take effect immediately, the NPR report said, adding that still, the figure represents about … Read more
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Sao Paulo’s Mayor Ricardo Nunes was reelected for another four years in Brazil’s largest city, defeating leftist challenger Guilherme Boulos, according to a projection on Sunday by pollster Datafolha based on exit polls. Nunes was backed by Sao Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas, who emerges from Sunday’s municipal elections as the … Read more
LONDON (Reuters) – Some British Labour lawmakers on Sunday accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of having a “colonial mindset” and trying to silence nations pushing for discussions on reparations for transatlantic slavery at this month’s Commonwealth summit in Samoa. Britain has so far rejected calls for reparations but some campaigners hoped Starmer’s new Labour government … Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Washington Post reported on Saturday that South African-born billionaire businessman Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States during a brief period in the 1990s while building a startup company. The news outlet reported that Musk arrived in Palo Alto, California, in 1995 to attend Stanford University but never enrolled in … Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Delta Air Lines on Friday sued CrowdStrike in a Georgia state court after a global outage in July caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3 million customers and cost the carrier more than $500 million. Delta’s lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court called the faulty software update from global … Read more
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s political parties are promising to raise the minimum wage, a step that may win votes in Sunday’s general election but could squeeze the small and midsize firms that form the backbone of the world’s fourth-largest economy. The wage-hike pledges particularly threaten small businesses, which account for two-thirds of jobs and over half … Read more
PETALING JAYA: Perkasa says they accept Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s apology over the 1MDB debacle adding that they could back his bid to serve the rest of his prison sentence under house arrest if he pleads guilty to all ongoing cases against him. Perkasa president Syed Hassan Syed Ali, said that the group believed that … Read more
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s main farmers’ union said on Tuesday it would stage nationwide protests next month as a push to conclude a trade deal between the European Union and Mercosur countries deepens discontent that fuelled a farming crisis earlier this year. Anger at competition from cheaper imports, including from EU ally Ukraine, and a … Read more
