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Cette politique du Département d’Etat n’est en aucun cas spécifique à la France, nous a confirmé un diplomate américain. En tout, “15 600 contrats, prêts et aides à l’étranger” ont été passés en revue par l’administration Trump. Cela expliquerait pourquoi, en France, la Fnac, par exemple, en a été destinataire, et non Saint-Gobain, Air Liquide ou encore Capgemini, pourtant très présents sur le marché américain. La plupart des patrons digèrent en attendant la suite Du côté du patronat, le Medef n’avait pas eu vent de la missive avant vendredi. A l’heure où son président, Patrick Martin, était dans l’avion du ministre…

Crude oil prices climbed on Monday amid US President Donald Trump’s threats to impose 25% to 50% tariffs on Russia’s oil. However, economic concerns may outweigh geopolitical tensions, as a weakening economic outlook could dampen oil demand. Investors will also be closely watching the OPEC+ meeting. Crude oil futures prices opened higher during Monday’s Asian session following Trump’s threats to impose tariffs on Russia’s oil exports. The US president also said there would be “bombing” and “secondary tariff” on Iran if the country failed to make a nuclear deal.The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent futures both jumped 0.6% at…

US craft brewers, already contending with a slump in sales, are set to be impacted by President Trump’s trade tariffs. America’s craft brewers already have enough problems. Hard seltzers and cocktails are muscling into beer sales. Millennials and Gen Z don’t drink as much as their elders. Brewpubs still haven’t fully recovered from the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic five years ago.Now there’s a new threat: President Donald Trump’s tariffs, including levies of 25% on imported steel and aluminium and on goods from Canada and Mexico.“It’s going to cost the industry a substantial amount of money,” said Matt Cole, brewmaster…

Trump purchased the course in 2014 and his son Eric Trump has pushed for Turnberry to host its first Open Championship since 2009. Prior to that, Turnberry last hosted in 1994. “The area where there’s a bit of challenge is around the logistical and commercial side. The last time we were at Turnbury in 2009 we had 120,000 people there,” Darbon said. The Open is golf’s oldest major championship, and sits alongside the Masters, the PGA Championship and U.S. Open among the sport’s most prestigious tournaments. Darbon added: “These days a modern Open caters for 250,000 people-plus, and so we need the…

Paul Marchant “acknowledged his error of judgement”, said Primark owner Associated British Foods on Monday. The boss of low-cost retailer Primark has resigned with immediate effect following a complaint made by a woman about his behaviour towards her in a social setting.Paul Marchant’s departure follows an investigation into the allegation, according to a statement released on Monday by Primark’s parent company Associated British Foods.“Marchant cooperated with the investigation, acknowledged his error of judgement and accepts that his actions fell below the standards expected by ABF,” the statement said.“He has made an apology to the individual concerned, the ABF Board and…

Better late than never. The hour hand of a chapel clock that was taken in a student prank during the 1930s has been returned to a Cambridge college. The perpetrators of the prank were not known until now. Only the minute hand remains elusive… A large clock hand stolen in a student prank has been returned to a Cambridge university after almost a century.Under cover of darkness on one night in the 1930s, prankster Geoffrey Hunter Baker – a modern language student who studied in Cambridge from 1934 to 1937 – and an unknown undergraduate student replaced the hands of the…

The programme could be a lifeline in a region with too few medical specialists for the population. Charles Owusu Aseku has traveled across Ghana and beyond in search of care for the large growth of tissue called a keloid on his neck since 2002.The 46-year-old was growing increasingly frustrated after two unsuccessful surgeries and a trip to South Africa that ended with just a consultation.Aseku was preparing for yet another medical trip – until late February when he joined others in the first trial of 3D telemedicine technology in Ghana powered through computer screens in the back of a van.Those…

Zelenskyy on Friday emphasized that Ukraine will not accept a minerals agreement that would jeopardize its accession to the European Union. “Nothing that could endanger … Ukraine’s accession to the EU can be accepted,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha doubled down on that condition Sunday when he said Ukraine will never accept anything that would make the country weak. “We can see this Russian strategy and will never accept anything that leaves Ukraine weak or defenseless,” Sybiha said. “To the contrary, a real and fair peace requires strong and long-term security guarantees to preserve…

Updated: 31/03/2025 – 10:14 GMT+2A ceremony was held to mark three years since Ukrainian forces retook Bucha, remembering the atrocities committed during Russia’s occupation in the early weeks of the 2022 invasion. … More Ukrainian officials, soldiers, and residents gathered at a memorial site in Bucha to mark three years since the country’s forces retook the town.Russian troops occupied Bucha in the early days of the 2022 invasion, remaining for about a month. When Ukrainian forces regained control, they uncovered mass graves and documented thousands of atrocities against civilians.This year’s commemoration comes amid tensions over ceasefire talks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr…

“Official representatives of the Bundesbank must personally count the bars and document their results,” Bild quoted him as saying. In the past, the idea that gold stored in official vaults may not be safe has generally been the preserve of cranks and conspiracy theorists. However, it has been revived, ironically, by none other than the billionaire and éminence grise of the Trump administration, Elon Musk, who has called for an inspection of the U.S.’s own gold reserves. You do not talk about Bullion Club For the Deutsche Bundesbank, which is tasked with the safe management of Germany’s most valuable financial…