French farmers lift border blockade after talks with PM
Paris (AFP) - French farmers protesting pay and conditions and a prospective EU-Latin America trade deal on Wednesday lifted a...
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Floods to shave 0.2 percentage points off Spain’s growth
Madrid (AFP) - The floods which killed 227 people in Spain last month could shave 0. 2 percentage points off...
Strike at French cognac maker Hennessy over measures in China spat
Bordeaux (AFP) - Hundreds of employees of French cognac maker Hennessy, part of the LVMH group luxury empire, went on...
Trump names China hawk Howard Lutnick as US commerce secretary
Washington (AFP) - US President-elect Donald Trump nominated Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of his transition team, as his commerce secretary...
Taxing the richest: what the G20 decided
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Anti-poverty campaigners have hailed a decision by G20 leaders meeting in Rio to make sure...
New Botswana leader eyes cannabis, sunshine to lift economy
Gaborone (Botswana) (AFP) - Botswana will diversify its diamond-dependent economy by launching into the medicinal cannabis market and exploiting its...
China’s Xi urges ‘strategic’ ties in talks with Germany’s Scholz
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for Beijing and Berlin to develop ties with a "strategic"...
British farmers protest in London over inheritance tax change
London (AFP) - British farmers massed in London on Tuesday, calling on the Labour government to scrap plans to change...
Farmers descend on London to overturn inheritance tax change
London (AFP) - British farmers massed in London on Tuesday for protests against controversial government plans to change inheritance tax...
French farmers step up protests against EU-Mercosur deal
Paris (AFP) - French farmers planned on Tuesday to step up their protests against a proposed trade pact between the...
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