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2024 Fiat 500e (Source: Stellantis) It’s not a good week to be working at Stellantis. As it (finally) moves to try to sell EVs in the US, the automaker just laid off 400 US salaried tech workers and software engineers on Friday. Today the company announced that it was slashing more than 1,500 jobs in […]

Vaughan Gething won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government. Gething, who is currently Welsh economy minister, narrowly beat Education Minister Jeremy Miles in a race to replace First Minister Mark Drakeford. Drakeford announced late last year he would step down once […]

MEDITERRANEAN SEA  –   Naval Striking Forces NATO will execute a Transfer of Authority (TOA), assuming command of more than 5,000 U.S. Sailors and Marines assigned to USS Bataan Amphibious Readiness Group (ARG). The TOA – which takes place in parallel to NATO’s exercise Steadfast Defender 2024 – brings joint vigilance and Deterrence and Defense (DDA) […]

SASTAMALA, Finland — The race to stave off disaster in Ukraine’s war against Russia is unfolding in the battle-scarred fields and forests of Eastern Europe and, in a small way, a quiet wooded area of southwest Finland. There, on the floor of an artillery factory, a mechanical arm lifts a mass of . . .

(Bloomberg) — Global stocks rallied, with Japan’s benchmark hitting a record high and Europe’s on track to do the same, after Nvidia’s blowout sales forecast reinforced investor conviction in the boom in generative AI use. Most Read from Bloomberg The Nasdaq 100 index futures jumped 2% and S&P 500 contracts were up more than a […]

(Bloomberg) — US and European equity futures fell along with Asian stocks, after a reduction in China’s mortgage reference rate failed to dispel concerns about the world’s no. 2 economy. Most Read from Bloomberg Contracts for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 benchmarks retreated after US markets were closed Monday for a holiday. Futures for […]

Julia Nikhinson/AFP/Getty Images FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Congressional full committee hearing in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. CNN  —  The FBI and its international allies disrupted a network of over 1,000 hacked internet routers that Russia’s military intelligence agency was using for cyber espionage operations against the United States and its European […]

Several senior U.S. national security officials are headed to Europe this weekend to try to reassure nervous allies that the United States will continue leading the free world and that Washington can still function. But why should they believe it? Despite the Biden team’s hopeful rhetoric, they have no way to promise that the United […]

CNN  —  Some European countries say they have stalled arms exports to Israel amid growing consternation about the way it is waging war against Hamas in Gaza, while the United States Senate on Tuesday passed a $95 billion foreign aid package that includes further security assistance . . .

(Bloomberg) — European equity futures edged up after the S&P 500 closed at a new record high Friday amid optimism over eventual Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts. Trading levels in Asia were muted with a swath of markets shut for Lunar New Year holidays. Most Read from Bloomberg Contracts for the Euro Stoxx 50 index show […]


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