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Firefighters battle wildfires from Portugal to France

Firefighters from Portugal and Spain to southern France are battling a spate of wildfires scorching Western Europe amid an unusual heat wave that authorities link to climate change

The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2022

Holocaust: Meeting the last witnesses to the Vél d'Hiv roundup, 80 years on

Over two days in the summer of 1942, French police carried out Western Europe’s largest wartime roundup of Jews, acting on orders from occupying German forces and their French allies in the Vichy Regime.

France 24 · Jul 9, 2022

Heat domes spike in Europe as climate change helps shift weather patterns

The persistent heat domes are becoming far more common than similar events elsewhere in the world.

Axios · Jul 6, 2022

Savannah says Portugal lithium mine delayed by 'political process'

Savannah Resources said on Wednesday it had little control over what it described as the political process which is delaying its extraction plans for what could become western Europe's largest lithium mine in northern Portugal.

Reuters · Jun 8, 2022

Alibaba's Overseas Growth Push Gets Critical To Beat Domestic Slowdown

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's (NYSE:BABA) hunt for overseas growth is critical to offset sluggish demand at home by expanding in Europe through its Southeast Asian offshoot, Lazada, Reuters reports. Lazada plans to target local European vendors, while Alibaba's existing global platform, AliExpress, will continue to focus mainly on cross-border sales from China. However, the…

Benzinga · May 25, 2022

Interactive Brokers' Carbon Offsets Feature To Be Available On Firm's IMPACT App

Interactive Brokers Group Inc (NASDAQ: IBKR) announced the launch of Carbon Offsets to its clients in Western Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Benzinga · May 13, 2022

Ukraine Cuts Russia Gas at 1 Hub, Underlining Risk to Supply

Ukraine shut down a pipeline Wednesday that carries Russian natural gas to homes and industries in Western Europe, while a Kremlin-installed official in a southern region seized by Russian troops said the area will ask Moscow to annex it. The talk of annexation in Kherson - and Russia's apparent willingness…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 11, 2022

Britain could become fattest nation in Europe due to takeaways addiction, report says

The World Health Organisation’s latest report on obesity in the continent shows 64% of UK adults are overweight, including 28% who are obese. It puts Britain as the fattest nation in Western Europe

Daily Mirror · May 3, 2022

Gucci in Focus as China Lockdowns Weigh on Kering Q1 Sales

Disruptions from COVID-19 lockdowns in China cast a cloud on forecast-beating first-quarter sales from Gucci owner Kering on Thursday, even as the group pointed to sustained demand from the United States and Western Europe for its high-end fashion and leather goods labels. Group sales for the three months ending in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 23, 2022

China’s surge proves the folly of trying to achieve ‘zero-COVID-19′

From the outset, mystery has shrouded the COVID-19 pandemic in China. The origin of the virus remains unknown, important Chinese journalists and key scientists have been muted, and case and death totals reported by China’s government have been unbelievably low — the United States and most of Western Europe have…

Chicago Tribune · Apr 16, 2022