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Leading automakers will be showcasing their latest designed-for-China models at the Shanghai auto show this week – in a bid to stay competitive in the world’s largest car market.Some industry experts view this year’s show in the sprawling industrial outskirts of Shanghai as a tipping point. Three decades after Beijing set out to build a world-class car industry, local manufacturers account for about two-thirds of sales inside China, and a growing share of global exports.The exhibition opens to the public on Thursday and runs until 2 May.Increased demand for EVsEncouraged by government subsidies for scrapping older cars for the latest…
“I initially hesitated to join the FIDE presidential campaign, but seeing the deep ties between chess and politics, and inspired by my wife’s insights on Ukraine and Lithuania’s role, I felt it was my duty to stand up for transparency and integrity in the chess world,” he said. Ukraine’s uphill struggle For Ukraine’s Kamyshin, the chessboard represents more than strategy: It is a battleground where principles, diplomacy and national identity intersect. Kyiv’s former minister for strategic industries, who ran the country’s rail infrastructure in the early days of Russia’s war, Kamyshin was elected as president of the country’s chess federation…
Updated: 23/04/2025 – 10:01 GMT+2Relatives of Venezuelans imprisoned in El Salvador held a protest outside the UN offices in Caracas on Tuesday, denouncing what they called “kidnappings” by Salvadoran authorities. … More Many expressed anger at Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to exchange Venezuelan political prisoners for migrants deported from the US and currently held in El Salvador.President Nicolás Maduro condemned the plan as “illegitimate” and “abusive,” saying it confirmed the migrants were being held without due process.Bukele revealed the swap proposal on Sunday via X, formerly Twitter, naming detainees including relatives of opposition figures, activists and journalists, many arrested…
“I have no intention of firing him,” Trump told reporters on Thursday about Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.The US president had previously said he could fire Powell if he wanted to, having been frustrated by the Fed putting a pause on cuts to short-term interest rates. Trump’s frustration led him to post on social media last Thursday: “Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!”The Fed chair’s term ends in May 2026.Powell said that Trump’s tariffs are creating uncertainty about slower growth and higher inflationary pressures. Meanwhile, the president maintains that inflationary worries are essentially non-existent, energy and grocery prices are falling,…
With news overnight that a peace conference in London today would be going ahead without UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy or US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are peace talks over Ukraine going backwards? Sam and Anne discuss what’s going on. And Rachel Reeves is landing in Washington today for what promises to be one of the most important IMF spring meeting in years – will she make any progress on a trade deal for the UK? Also, Sam has obtained a leaked recording of former Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick vowing to “bring this coalition together” to ensure that…
Jannik Hartmann, a fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, confirmed that a U.S. pullback — from Germany’s Ramstein Air Base, for instance — would leave Europe without basic loading gear like ramps and flatbed wagons. Europe also has few forward stockpiles of military hardware, whereas the U.S. has pre-positioned supplies across Germany, Poland and the Netherlands, Kruijver said. Air-to-air refueling — essential in contested airspace — is still largely a U.S. domain. Europe’s defense of its eastern flank relies on American-financed NATO fuel networks stretching across the continent. If Washington retreats, countries like France and Germany would scramble…
Fancy lighting up your living room with the ambient glow of a historically-important piece of design? It might set you back up to $5 million (€4.35 million). A rare lamp from legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright is about to go up for auction. He designed the Double-Pedestal lamp for the Dana–Thomas House, which he built for the philanthropist Susan Lawrence Dana in 1902. Completed in 1904, the Springfield, Illinois house is a classic of Wright’s decadent design style through its sense of flow and resplendent selection of leaded glass windows, bringing light into every crevice. Alongside the windows and…
“It’s no secret that I would like to see an ambitious regulation on child sexual abuse,” Hummelgaard said. The EU won’t stop there. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, this month unveiled a new internal security strategy, setting out plans to look into “lawful and effective” data access for law enforcement and to find technological solutions to access encrypted data. The smartphones and applications used by criminals to recruit, organize and carry out crime sprees are increasingly the target of European law enforcement and politicians alike. | Oscar Olsson/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images It also wants to start…
Cities also control powerful economic levers. Strategic procurement can shape markets, drive clean-tech adoption and support local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For example, Oslo mandates zero-emission construction in public projects, and five years on, 77 percent of municipal building sites are emission-free, a great example of procurement driving industry-wide changes. With direct access to funding and streamlined EU instruments, cities can go further and faster, creating demand for clean innovation and building thriving local economies from the ground up. Yet today, only 13 percent of the global workforce is ready for these future careers, and Europe faces urgent skills…
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