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Tourist numbers in Portugal hit record in 2023
Foreign tourists flocked to Portugal in record numbers in 2023 with 26.5 million visitors -- a 19.2 percent jump compared to the y...
Carlsberg quaffs British soft drinks maker Britvic...
Danish brewer Carlsberg on Monday said that it had reached a deal to buy British soft drinks manufacturer Britvic for £3.3 billion...
Euro slips, eurozone markets edge up after snap Fr...
The euro slipped on Monday but eurozone stock markets edged up after early losses following snap French elections in which a hung...
Euro slips in Asian trade after snap French poll
The euro slipped in Asian trade on Monday after snap French elections in which a hung parliament appeared the likeliest outcome, a...
Samsung workers begin three-day general strike ove...
Workers at South Korean tech giant Samsung began a three-day general strike over pay and benefits on Monday, the head of a union r...
South Korea Samsung workers start strike: union ch...
Workers at South Korean tech giant Samsung began a three day general strike Monday, the head of a union representing tens of thous...
'Despicable Me 4' tops N.American box office on op...
Animated comedy "Despicable Me 4" rose to the top of the North American box office on its first weekend in theaters, according to...
Tourists are latest conquest of Viking fortress in...
A millennium-old Danish Viking fortress is wowing tourists by offering visitors a broader view of Scandinavia's famed marauders.
Cybercrime groups restructuring after major takedo...
Cybercrime gangs are looking to rebuild with new tactics after global police operations this year made a huge dent in their activi...
New Dutch PM under fire over ministers' 'racist' r...
Newly-minted Prime Minister Dick Schoof faced a baptism of fire at the opening of the Dutch parliament over remarks by two cabinet...
Pound climbs after Labour's UK election win
The pound advanced Friday after Britain's centre-left Labour Party clinched an expected landslide election victory to end 14 years...
Rachel Reeves: Britain's first woman finance chief
Rachel Reeves, Britain's first woman finance minister, is a former child chess champion and Bank of England economist who has pled...
Is AI a major drain on the world's energy supply?
When Google announced this week that its climate emissions had risen by 48 percent since 2019, it pointed the finger at artificial...
Tension as France's snap election campaign comes t...
Tensions were running high Friday as France's election campaign came to an end ahead of a one-day pause and then a historic run-of...
Flights slowly resume at Sicily's Catania airport...
Sicily's Catania airport began gradually reopening for flights Friday after they were temporarily suspended following an eruption...
US jobs market sees gradual cooldown in June
US job gains eased slightly in June while unemployment edged up, government data showed Friday, in a sign that the world's biggest...
US hiring cools in June, unemployment up slightly:...
US job gains eased slightly in June while unemployment edged up, government data showed Friday, in the latest sign that the world'...
UK stocks, pound climb after Labour election win
The London stock market advanced Friday after Britain's centre-left Labour Party clinched an expected landslide election victory t...
Flights suspended in Sicily's Catania as volcano e...
Catania airport on the Italian island of Sicily was closed on Friday after Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, erupt...
Reformist faces ultraconservative as Iran votes fo...
Iranians voted on Friday in a presidential runoff election where the choice is between a reformist advocating improved ties with t...
Asian markets down as traders await US jobs report
Asian markets were largely down on Friday, a day after Tokyo's indexes hit record highs, with traders preparing for a key US jobs...
Chinese AI market optimistic despite scrutiny from...
China's AI sector showed confidence this week at a major fair in Shanghai that it would overcome restrictions imposed by the West,...
Kinshasa, a megacity of traffic jams, potholes, tr...
Cable car, urban rail link or ring road -- Kinshasa has big plans for alleviating its traffic chaos but for now, travelling into t...
Asian markets down as traders eye US jobs report
Japanese markets started higher before seeing early gains erased on Friday with Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index briefly hitting...
Samsung Electronics forecasts major Q2 profit jump
Samsung Electronics said Friday it expects second-quarter operating profits to rise more than 15-fold on-year as chip prices bounc...
Switzerland tries to flatten out peaks of Alpine v...
Switzerland's tourism agency said Thursday that it was trying to even out the flow of holidaymakers throughout the year to protect...
EU slaps Chinese electric cars with tariffs of up...
The European Union on Thursday slapped extra provisional duties of up to 38 percent on Chinese electric car imports because of "un...
Markets extend gains, dollar dips as US data fans...
Equities rose and the dollar slipped further on Thursday as investors welcomed more data pointing to a softening labour market tha...
Decade since Ebola, Sierra Leone fights another de...
Rummaging in the darkness of a tiny mud and thatch home in eastern Sierra Leone, ecologist James Koninga plucks a metal rat trap f...
Verdict due over deadly Oslo Pride attack
A Norwegian court is set to deliver its verdict Thursday on a shooter who killed two people hours before Oslo's 2022 Pride festiva...
China's BYD opens EV plant in Thailand despite slo...
China's electric vehicle giant BYD opened a factory in Thailand on Thursday, continuing its international expansion despite a mark...
Philippines says US mid-range missile system to be...
A US mid-range missile system deployed in the Philippines for annual joint military exercises -- to the annoyance of China -- will...