For several years, the Shwepyithar district, north of the Burmese economic capital, has seen mountains of plastic accumulate, covering fields, increasing the risk of fire and threatening the health of residents. “Previously, during the rainy season, I could pick watercress in this
“These are dramatic times” in Lebanon too. “The key point today is the attack on Gaza. If Israel begins ground operations, there will be repercussions for the entire region.” Fady Noun, an independent journalist from Beirut, thus describes to SIR how the
Investing.com – U.S. Treasury yields rose to their highest levels since the financial crisis after a speech by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, dragging stocks lower. Crude rises as the US seeks to fill its strategic reserves, while UK retail sales slumped in
Britain’s Conservative Party lost two parliamentary seats to Labor on October 20, another setback for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his party ahead of general elections due next year. Labor leader Keir Starmer, whose party is recognized as having a large lead
The dollar was stable on Friday, hesitating between comments from the Federal Reserve urging caution on a future rate hike and its status as a safe haven in a context of geopolitical uncertainty, while bitcoin briefly exceeded the $30,000 mark . Around
Less borrowing and lower interest: the United Kingdom’s public finances are better than anticipated by official forecasts, news which will nevertheless offer little budgetary room to a Conservative government under strong political pressure. For the first six months of the UK fiscal
We knew the famous French Strikes, but French don’t always do it better. The whole country mobilized in January and February: medical staff, bus and train drivers, teachers… Everyone has salary demands to make to the government for the country’s civil servants.
In the Sherifian kingdom, it is an exceptional parliamentary return. In front of her special guests, Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the IMF, Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank Group, seated in the front row, Mohammed VI inaugurated this new legislative
On Monday, Piazza Affari opened just above parity as expected, while other European stock exchanges managed to gain momentum in opening trade on a busy morning on the macroeconomic front with the release of some of the leading PMIs of the world’s
Wall Street appears in the green in the first indicative trend before the market this Monday. The S&P 500 gained 0.4%, the Dow Jones 0.3% and the Nasdaq 0.5%. The main reason for satisfaction comes from the weekend announcements. Indeed, the American
Less than a year before the Paris Olympic Games, the proliferation of bedbugs in France is worrying the foreign press. In the United States, Hong Kong, and even the United Kingdom, many voices are being raised to raise this problem. A concern
The Human Rights Council this afternoon began its general debate on human rights situations requiring its attention, hearing statements from numerous delegations*. In this year of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the importance of the promotion and
