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Flights have been cancelled in Italy’s major airports due to nationwide strikes and a fire on Wednesday morning. Major airports in Italy already began cancelling flights on Tuesday in preparation for a nationwide day of strikes. Now, all air traffic at Ciampino Airport has been suspended due to a small fire that broke out on Wednesday morning.This fire is the latest disruption to Italy’s planned flights after airport handling staff organised a 24-hour union walkout due to ongoing disputes.Some trains and public transport in Milan and the rest of the Lombardy region have also been affected by a 23-hour strike…
“A shooting took place. The images from the surveillance cameras show that the suspects fled towards the Clemenceau metro station,” Sarah Frederickx, spokesperson for the Brussels South police, told POLITICO. “For security reasons we had to shut down the metro line. There are no victims,” she added. This story is being updated.
Toyota’s push also comes as worries grow around Asia about a potential trade war brewing after President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese goods and China retaliated with tariffs to take effect next week. Toyota is developing and making electric vehicles and EV batteries in China, under a new partnership with the Shanghai government, the Japanese car maker has announced.Toyota Motor Corp also revealed it will start producing batteries for EVs, hybrids and plug-ins at a new $14bn (€13.5bn) facility in North Carolina, with shipping starting for North American models in April.The moves highlight Toyota’s aggressive push in electric cars, a sector…
Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy look at the day ahead in British politics. Today, the fallout from President Trump’s claim that the US should take over Gaza and resettle Palestinians, and how Labour might respond. Gabriel Pogrund of The Sunday Times sheds light on Starmer’s approach to the Middle East via his WhatsApp correspondence. Elsewhere, Labour are trying to keep their plans for flood defenses on the agenda and control the narrative around the Chagos Islands. And is Rachel Reeves going to have to breach her own fiscal rules? You can send us a…
The EU is failing to support large telecoms firms, says one of Vodafone’s senior directors, adding that Brussels isn’t the prime target for blame. The European Union’s failure to support international telecoms growth is hindering economic expansion, Vodafone’s head of EU affairs has said.The comments come at a time when UK-headquartered Vodafone is finalising a merger of its domestic business with Three UK, a deal approved by the British competition regulator in December.”When we talk about scale, we want to see a level of ambition”, said Darren Ennis, speaking at the EU-UK Forum annual conference in Brussels on Tuesday.”Europe too…
Updated: 04/02/2025 – 20:14 GMT+1Street art is taking over the walls of Warsaw, Poland, turning the capital into an open-air museum. These images, created by amateurs and renowned artists alike, bear witness to the cultural richness of Warsaw. … More The evolution of murals in Poland traces back to the Communist era, during which they served as propaganda instruments for the party. However, following the collapse of Communism and the influx of Western influences in the 1990s, Warsaw’s edifices began to be adorned with images that were purely artistic.The proliferation of murals in Warsaw has been facilitated by the introduction…
The Bank still believes it has broken the back of inflation and expects the medium-term weakness of the economy to bear that out. But with last year’s big drops in energy prices falling out of the annual calculations, headline inflation is set to remain clearly above its 2 percent target this year. After having fallen to a three-year low in September, it had already rebounded to 2.5 percent by the end of last year. That, said the Barclays economist, creates something of a dilemma for the MPC, which has to balance the risks of an undershoot over the longer period…
Restarting the bilateral trade negotiations “would be one step” towards that, Goodale argued. Yet he acknowledged reviving the talks could be difficult for Keir Starmer’s Labour government. “We realize we’re dealing with a new government with a different set of priorities and it may take them a while to do the internal consideration that they need to do, and that’s understandable,” Goodale said. It’s not just the U.K. government that faces hurdles to getting the talks back on track. Canada’s parliament is currently prorogued as Trudeau’s Liberal party holds a leadership race after he announced at the start of this…
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Although he hasn’t yet talked with new United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Kosiniak-Kamysz has met with U.S. officials tied to the Trump team and stressed the scale of Poland’s defense buildup. “We can calmly show the new Trump administration that the two conditions which President Trump frequently underlines: defense spending, which we have at the highest level in NATO, and mutual economic relations for American business, we realize at the highest level in Europe,” said Kosiniak-Kamysz. “It’s kind of an insurance policy,” he added. And if other European countries are worried about the U.S. retreating from the continent and…