Новости за 23.04.2024

BARCELONA, Spain, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people were on the streets of the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona on Tuesday for a local festival that celebrates reading and love that coincides with the World Book Day of the Organization of the United Nations for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO).

ATHENS, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Greece reported on Monday a better-than-expected primary budget surplus of 1.9 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) last year.

New Delhi [India], April 24 (ANI): Campaigning has peaked for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 26 with opposition leaders from the INDIA bloc hitting out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over Prime Minister's "mangalsutra" remark, over the BJP's Surat MP winning unopposed with Congress leaders reiterating promise to conduct a caste census. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said tha

NEW YORK, New York - U.S. stocks were on the move higher again Tuesday as world equity markets continued their advance in an towards record territory.

Gross domestic product is expected to expand by 2.8% this year

The Russian Ministry of Economic Development has raised its 2024 forecast for the country's growth, citing domestic consumer and investment demand.

Gross domestic product will expand by 2.8% this year, Economy Minister Maksim Reshetnikov told a government meeting on Tuesday. This compares favorably with the previous forecast of

Birbhum (West Bengal) [India], April 24 (ANI): In a sensational charge at the principal Opposition party in the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed a BJP leader wanted to kill her nephew and the general secretary of the ruling Trinamool Congress, Abhishek Banerjee. "One of the Gaddars (TMC turncoats) in the BJP said they would lob an explosive. If you hold a grudge against me, bomb me all you want. Bu

LAHAINA, Hawaii: The wildfire on August 8 in Lahaina, Maui, which killed 101 people and destroyed the homes of 6,200 families, has intensified Maui's already acute housing shortage and highlighted the effect of holiday rentals in the town.

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee: In a historic for the United Auto Workers (UAW) union as it aims to spread its umbrella beyond its Detroit base into the U.S. South and West, workers at Volkswagen's (VW) Tennessee plant have voted to unionize.

WASHINGTON - Myanmar's ruling junta, the State Administrative Council, is criticizing a U.S. aid package that is being funneled through opponents of the regime, saying the United States should consider whether its actions amount to support for terrorism.

Abu Dhabi [UAE], April 24 (ANI/WAM): Ahmed Al Musawa Al Hashemi, CEO of Hafeet Rail, affirmed that the railway project between the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates has entered into the implementation phase on Tuesday. He said that several tangible steps have been made, starting with the signing of the partnership agreement between stakeholders, and the awarding of major contracts for the project to a UAE-Oma

The PLA has strong capabilities but the Americans have experience, an official has said

London plans to increase defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says

Abu Dhabi [UAE], April 23 (ANI/WAM): AD Ports Group (ADX: ADPORTS), a leading facilitator of global trade, logistics, and industry, has signed several agreements with Unicargas and Multiparques leading to securing a 20-year concession agreement (extendable by another 10 years) with the Luanda Port Authority for operating and upgrading the Luanda multipurpose port terminal in Angola. The agreements with Unicargas and Multi

Abu Dhabi [UAE], April 23 (ANI/WAM): Al Etihad Payments (AEP), a subsidiary of the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), has signed a partnership with Core42, a G42 company and full-spectrum AI enablement solutions provider to mark the commencement of the implementation of Open Finance within the UAE, one of the nine initiatives within the CBUAE's Financial Infrastructure Transformation (FIT) Programme. The signing ceremony wa

Olaf Scholz has accused the Russian president of ?poaching? Immanuel Kant and misinterpreting his teachings

Employers have still reported significant personnel shortages despite inflated wages

Lawmakers in Washington are reportedly working on measures to cut off sanctioned lenders from the global financial system

LJUBLJANA, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Slovenia's consumer sentiment has reached the highest level since February 2022, encouraged by improved expectations regarding the economic outlook, latest figures show.

Akola (Maharashtra) [India], April 23 (ANI): In an unsparing attack on the Congress over its alleged handling of the Jammu and Kashmir issue and not settling it decisively during its decades in power at the Centre, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the grand old party held on to Article 370 and 'cradled' it like a baby on a mother's lap till the Centre, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, rev

CHICAGO, April 23 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Co. (GM) Tuesday reported its first-quarter 2024 revenue at 43.0 billion dollars and net income attributable to stockholders at 3.0 billion dollars, up from 40 billion dollar and 2.4 billion dollar in the same period of 2023, respectively, and beating market expectations.

LONDON, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The FTSE 100 index, Britain's blue-chip share index, closed at another record high on Tuesday after winning a new intraday high, following the previous peak set on Monday.

JERUSALEM -- Israel on Tuesday ordered residents of the city of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate "urgently" ahead of a new planned onslaught in the area.

New Delhi [India], April 23 (ANI): India's services exports, in US dollar terms, grew at a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 14 per cent over the last 30 years (between 1993 and 2022), significantly higher than India's merchandise export growth (10.7 per cent) as well as world services export growth (6.8 per cent), as per an article in the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) monthly bulletin. As a result, t

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said that cow-to-cow transmission can spread bird flu in dairy herds, but how the virus is being moved around is still unknown.

DUBAI, The UAE: Over the weekend, Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates and sister airline flydubai said they have resumed normal operations after heavy rains caused severe flooding in the UAE earlier this week.