BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Friday it has reached agreement on the budget for 2025 and a stimulus package for Europe’s largest economy, easing a monthslong squabble that threatened to upend Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left coalition. Scholz, a Social Democrat, and leaders of the Free Democrats and Greens reached agreement on plans including […]
(Bloomberg) — The Panama Canal has managed to ward off a shipping crisis that threatened to upend $270 billion a year in global trade. It did so with careful water management — and a little bit of luck. Most Read from Bloomberg As parched conditions gripped the Central American country last year, the Panama Canal […]
By Richard Cowan, David Morgan and Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress early on Saturday overwhelmingly passed a $1.2 trillion budget bill, keeping the government funded through a fiscal year that began six months ago and sending it to President Joe Biden to sign into law and avert a partial shutdown. The vote on […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An alert tax driver prevented a scam in which an elderly woman would have lost the equivalent of about $36,000 for a phony bailout of relatives from jail, police in southeastern Poland said. According to a police statement, a caller in the city of Rzeszow instructed the driver last week to […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An alert tax driver prevented a scam in which an elderly woman would have lost the equivalent of about $36,000 for a phony bailout of relatives from jail, police in southeastern Poland said. According to a police statement, a caller in the city of Rzeszow instructed the driver last week to […]