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'Slow travel' start-up launches cross-Channel crossings by sail
'Slow travel' start-up launches cross-Channel crossings by sail
Economy
by  AFP

The crossing may be "a bit choppy", Captain Andrew Simons warns a dozen of his passengers waiting in the French port of Boulogne to cross the Channel with only wind to get them to England. Simons imagined a new mode of cross-Channel transport "offering that experience of the sea to people who are not travelling with a car".

US exempts tech imports in tariff step back
US exempts tech imports in tariff step back
Economy
by  AFP

The Trump administration has announced a series of major exemptions to its punishing global tariffs -- an apparent step back in an escalating trade war with China. Washington and Beijing's escalating tariff battle has raised fears of an enduring trade war between the world's two largest economies and sent global markets into a tailspin.