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France: Heidelberg Materials has announced plans to close two of its plants in France - Beffes and Villiers-au-Bouin - by October 2025. This move is part of the company's restructuring efforts aimed at accelerating its decarbonisation efforts and focusing more on low-carbon products. The decision comes amid a decline in cement sales…

Support independent journalism in Ukraine. Join us in this fight. Become a member Support us just once Once the “sick man of Europe,” Germany seems to be under the weather once again. That might be putting it mildly: much as it did in the late 1990s, Germany is staring down the…

Russia is being abandoned by its key allies amid tightening U.S. sanctions imposed in response to the war in Ukraine.Recent moves by a number of Russian President Vladimir Putin's longtime allies, including China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and India, suggest they are becoming more cautious of U.S. secondary sanctions. Russia's President…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed new ambassadors through a decree published in the Official Gazette early Friday.According to the decree, Sedat Onal, the current UN envoy, has been appointed as Türkiye's ambassador to the US.Rifat Cem Ornekol has been appointed as Türkiye's ambassador to Guinea, while Ahmet Ihsan Kiziltan has…

A Los Angeles money storage facility was ransacked on Easter Sunday, leaving a hole in the building's roof and tens of millions of dollars vanished, sources told ABC News.Sources said the exact amount that was stolen is not known, but it is believed to be in the tens of millions, which would make it one of the largest cash heists in Los Angeles'…

There are more than a quarter of a million homes without power across Quebec as snow continues to blanket the province. "In several places, power lines are down due to strong gusts of wind or the weight of broken tree branches," Hydro-Quebec notes. "We are mobilizing all available crews to work on restoring service as quickly as…

The Bank of Japan is joining six other central banks to test what could be the future of money. The group is trying to smooth banking transactions by using digital currencies. The Swiss-based Bank for International Settlements announced the test on Wednesday. It will involve the Federal Reserve Bank of New York…

(Montel) Germany’s economy ministry will allow the capture and storage of emissions from gas-fired power plants but without subsidies, a draft law showed on Monday. Share:…

Visa processing chaos has made Australia less attractive to foreign students, and the situation is set to get worse, according to an international education analyst. Keri Ramirez said processing delays and soaring visa refusal rates were only part of the problem for Australian educators, with visa applications also in decline. “Students are…

A Palestinian American doctor who walked out of a meeting with President Biden and other Arab and Muslim leaders and activists on Tuesday said he left "out of respect for my community."Dr. Thaer Ahmad, an emergency physician from Chicago who traveled to Gaza earlier this year, told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan the White House…