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20238 articles published since 08 Mar 2022
Americans are expected to spend a record amount over the holiday season, despite lingering worries in the world's biggest economy about stubborn inflation, tariffs and the knock-on effects of the government shutdown.
Australian resources giant BHP said Monday it had dropped a bid to take over British rival Anglo American that would have created the world's largest miner of copper. Bloomberg News reported on Sunday that BHP, the world's largest mining company, had approached Anglo with a bid in an attempt to disrupt a merger with Canadian peer Teck Resources.
"Are you ready Shanghai?!" - Tightly managed - The 10,000-capacity Shanghai event is tiny compared to the Belgian one, which saw 400,000 people over two weekends this year.
Leaders from the G20 group of top economies endorsed Saturday a declaration at a summit in South Africa that highlights issues related to access to critical minerals and measures to cope with climate change.
Nations neared a deal at the UN climate summit Saturday after the EU accepted a text with only an implicit nod to phasing out fossil fuels following fraught negotiations with oil producers and emerging countries. The EU, which had warned that the summit could end without a deal if fossil fuels were not addressed, accepted the watered-down language.
Shiina Ito has had fewer Chinese customers at her Tokyo jewellery shop since Beijing issued a travel warning in the wake of a diplomatic spat, but she said she was not concerned. But travel agency manager Wu said that the spat would not stop holidaymakers dreaming of Tokyo.
A US-European rift over the future of Ukraine is set to overshadow a G20 summit starting in South Africa on Saturday further marked by Donald Trump's pointed absence. On Saturday, European leaders are to meet on the sidelines of the summit to make it clear "that there should be nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine", European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said.
Russian forces fighting in Mali have failed to break the country free from a stifling fuel blockade and attacks waged by suspected jihadists, as the wider Sahel region becomes further mired in conflict.
The EU will demand more tariff exemptions on products including wines when US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick meets the bloc's trade ministers on Monday. The EU's trade ministers will meet in Brussels on Monday during which Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will join them for lunch.
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