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from september 15, 2023 AP news article...

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“The companies have made some significant offers,” Biden said. “But I believe they should go further to ensure record corporate profits mean record contracts for the UAW.”

"...High inflation going back to 2021 has created an economic and political headache for Biden. Workers’ paychecks have not kept up with the cumulative increases in the cost of groceries, gasoline and other goods. Data from the Labor Department shows that new car prices have jumped nearly 20% since April 2021, while higher interest rates have made auto loans more expensive.

The Democratic president said he is backing the union’s efforts on wage increases because the contracts can set standards across the wider economy, “pushing up wages and strengthening benefits for everyone.”

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"...“The auto workers are being sold down the river by their leadership, and their leadership should endorse Trump,” said Trump, adding that the workers are “not going to have a union in three years from now. Those jobs are all going to be gone, because all of those electric cars are going to be made in China.”

Biden, by contrast, sees the talks as critical for producing a contract that “leads to a ‘Made in America’ future that promotes good, strong middle class jobs.”

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Monday, April 3, 2023

Tornado survivors recount flying debris, destroyed buildings (AP) With tornadoes hitting the Midwest and the South this weekend, some survivors said they emerged from their homes to find buildings ripped apart, vehicles tossed around like toys, shattered glass and felled trees. J.W. Spencer, 88, had never experienced a tornado before, but when he and his wife saw on TV that a tornado was nearing their town of Wynne, Arkansas, he opened a front window and rear door in his house to relieve air pressure. The couple scurried into the bathroom, where they got into the bathtub and covered themselves with quilts and blankets for protection. Fifteen minutes later, the storm unleashed its fury on the town nestled among the flat fields and fertile farmland of eastern Arkansas. Debris came whistling through their house. “We just rode it out,” Spencer said on Saturday. “We heard stuff falling, loud noises. And then it quit. It got quiet.” After it passed, the couple emerged to see devastation in the neighborhood. Many large trees were down, and numerous homes were damaged, especially near the high school, which had its roof shredded and windows blown out.

The US leads the world in weather catastrophes (AP) The United States is Earth’s punching bag for nasty weather. Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting peninsulas like Florida, clashing storm fronts and the jet stream combine to naturally brew the nastiest of weather. Then add climate change, and “buckle up. More extreme events are expected,” said Rick Spinrad, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Tornadoes. Hurricanes. Flash floods. Droughts. Wildfires. Blizzards. Ice storms. Nor’easters. Lake-effect snow. Heat waves. Severe thunderstorms. Hail. Lightning. Atmospheric rivers. Derechos. Dust storms. Monsoons. Bomb cyclones. And the dreaded polar vortex. It starts with “where we are on the globe,” North Carolina state climatologist Kathie Dello said.

Intensity and insults rise as lawmakers debate debt ceiling (AP) Fights over increasing the nation’s borrowing authority have been contentious in Congress, yet follow a familiar pattern: Time and again, lawmakers found a way to step back from the brink before markets began to panic and the nation risked a dangerous default on its debt. But this year’s fight has a different feel, some lawmakers say. A new Republican majority in the House is itching for a spending showdown, and determined not to yield. They blame what they view as excessive federal spending for higher food and gasoline prices and the growing national debt. Led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, they have ruled out passing a “clean” debt ceiling increase even as the White House insists such legislation be passed without conditions. It’s an impasse that shows no signs of easing ahead of this summer’s deadline for action.

Fatal fire complicates border city’s tensions with migrants (AP) When Irwing López made it to Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border in January, the 35-year-old construction worker thought he had survived the worst and was steps away from his goal. He’d traversed jungle and raging rivers, and evaded Mexico’s notorious cartels, traveling thousands of miles from his native Venezuela. But then he found himself in a purgatory between U.S. immigration policies that pushed him back to Mexico and the unrelenting pursuit of Mexican immigration agents. And on Monday, López was reminded just how fragile his situation is. His friend and fellow Venezuelan Samuel Marchena was detained by immigration agents and hours later became one of the 39 migrants who died in a fire at a detention center. López, who sleeps in a shelter and washes windshields at stoplights for cash, said he won’t give up trying to enter the U.S., but he recognizes he’s not welcome in this sprawling border city that has grown tired of migrants in its community.

Almost a third of Brazilians disapprove of Lula, poll shows (Reuters) Almost a third of Brazilians disapprove of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, putting the leftist leader at about the same level of unpopularity as his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro during the first three months of his presidency, a poll cited by the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo showed on Saturday. Lula, who took office in January after narrowly defeating Bolsonaro in an election last October, has the approval of 38% of Brazilians, with 29% disapproving of his performance, according to a Datafolha survey.

Thousands protest in Portugal over housing crisis (Reuters) Thousands of people took to the streets of Lisbon and other cities across Portugal on Saturday in protest against soaring rents and house prices at a time when high inflation is making it even tougher for people to make ends meet. Portugal is one of Western Europe’s poorest countries, with government data showing more than 50% of workers earned less than 1,000 euros ($1,084) per month last year. The monthly minimum wage is 760 euros. Rents in Lisbon, a tourist hotspot, have jumped 65% since 2015 and sale prices have sky-rocketed 137% in that period. The situation is particularly hard on the young. The average rent for a one-bedroom flat in Lisbon is around 1,350 euros, a study by housing portal Imovirtual showed. Low wages and high rents make Lisbon the world’s third-least viable city to live in, according to a study by insurance brokers CIA Landlords. Portugal’s current 8.2% inflation rate has exacerbated the problem.

Pope Francis leads Palm Sunday service, bounces back from illness (Reuters) Pope Francis led a Palm Sunday service the day after he was discharged from hospital following a bout of bronchitis, and urged the world to take better care of the poor, the lonely and the infirm. Thousands of people waved palm and olive branches as Francis was driven into St. Peter’s Square sitting in the back of a white, open-topped vehicle, before descending and starting the service. The pontiff, wearing red vestments, spoke with a quiet, but clear voice as he addressed a crowd of more than 30,000 faithful in weak spring sunshine. In his homily he called on people not to ignore those experiencing great suffering and solitude. “Today their numbers are legion. Entire peoples are exploited and abandoned; the poor live on our streets and we look the other way; migrants are no longer faces but numbers, prisoners are disowned; people written off as problems,” he said.

Russia-Ukraine war: Will there be a spring counteroffensive? (AP) Europe’s biggest armed conflict since World War II is poised to enter a new phase in the coming weeks. With no suggestion of a negotiated end to the 13 months of fighting between Russia and Ukraine, the Ukrainian defense minister said last week that a spring counteroffensive could begin as soon as April. But Russian forces are dug in deep, lying in wait behind minefields and along kilometers (miles) of trenches. But the Ukrainian military starts the season with an influx of powerful weapons. Germany said this week that it had delivered the 18 Leopard 2 tanks it promised to Ukraine. Poland, Canada and Norway have also handed over their pledged Leopard tanks. British Challenger tanks have arrived too. The new supplies, including howitzers, anti-tank weapons and 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition, will add more muscle to the Ukraine military and give it a bigger punch. A make-or-break period may lie ahead: If Kyiv fails to make progress on the battlefield with its Western-supplied weapons, allies may become reluctant to send it more of the expensive hardware.

Pakistan posts highest-ever annual inflation; stampedes for food kill 16 (Reuters) Consumer price inflation in Pakistan jumped to a record 35.37% in March from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said on Saturday, as at least 16 people were killed in stampedes for food aid. The March inflation number eclipsed February's 31.5%, the bureau said, as food, beverage and transport prices surged up to 50% year-on-year. Thousands of people have gathered at flour distribution centres set up across the country, some as part of a government-backed programme to ease the impact of inflation. At least 16 people, including five women and three children, have been killed in stampedes at such centres in recent days, police and officials have said. Thousands of bags of flour have also been looted from trucks and distribution points, according to official records.

China Draws Lessons From Russia’s Losses in Ukraine, and Its Gains (NYT) Thousands of miles from the cities that Russia is bombing in Ukraine, China has been studying the war. In an indirect struggle between two superpowers on the other side of the world, Beijing sees a source of invaluable lessons on weapons, troop power, intelligence and deterrence that can help it prepare for potential wars of its own. In particular, Chinese military analysts have scrutinized the fighting for innovations and tactics that could help in a possible clash over Taiwan, the island democracy that Beijing wants to absorb and the United States has at times pledged to defend. The war is a “proving ground,” they say, that gives China a chance to learn from successes and failures on both sides.

Heavy rain brings flash flooding to Sydney, prompts rescues (Reuters) Heavy rain brought flash flooding to Australia’s largest city Sydney on Sunday, prompting rescues and residents to sandbag houses, as authorities warned of bad weather ahead. Emergency authorities received 50 calls for assistance, mostly for sandbagging of properties and help plugging leaking roofs, from residents in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales state, due to Sunday’s deluge. It comes after Sydney in 2022 notched its wettest year in 164 years, as Australia’s east coast endured a rare third straight year of the La Nina weather phenomenon, associated with increased rain.

Iran’s chief justice says unveiled women will be prosecuted ‘without mercy’ (Guardian) Iran’s judiciary chief has threatened to prosecute “without mercy” women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media reported on Saturday. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei’s warning comes on the heels of an interior ministry statement on Thursday that reinforced the government’s mandatory hijab law. “Unveiling is tantamount to enmity with [our] values,” Ejei was quoted as saying by several news sites. Those “who commit such anomalous acts will be punished” and would be “prosecuted without mercy,” he said, without saying what the punishment would entail. A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching their veils since the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of the “morality police” last September. Mahsa Amini had been detained for allegedly violating the hijab rule.

Israel’s ‘fired’ defence minister may yet keep his job (Reuters) Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant, whose dismissal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought the country’s constitutional crisis to a boil this week, may still keep his job, two sources told Reuters. Aides said Gallant never received a formal dismissal letter from Netanyahu, who has since faced rare public censure from the United States over the justice drive. In a sign he was conducting business as usual on Thursday, Gallant’s office said he raised a Passover holiday toast with domestic security officials and distributed a photo of himself smiling at the event, where he said Israel’s security was at a “complex” point in time.

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Events 1.2 (after 1960)

1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac. 1967 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California. 1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match. 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 mph in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. 1975 – At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. 1975 – The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage. 1978 – On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills. 1981 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. 1988 – Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar, Turkey, killing 16 people. 1991 – Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia. 1993 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon. 2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth. 2019 – Adventist Health System and its subsidiaries rebranded to AdventHealth. 2022 – Massive nationwide protests and unrest break out in Kazakhstan over the sudden increase of liquefied petroleum gas prices, leaving over 200 people dead and thousands injured.

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A Mexican official on Monday confirmed a shocking video that emerged over the weekend of cartel gunmen forcing the drivers of about a dozen tanker trucks to dump their entire loads of gasoline into a field.The official, who was not authorized to be quoted by name, said the incident occurred last week in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, and was under investigation.The official said the gunmen had apparently forced the truck drivers to line their parked vehicles up on a dirt road to dump their cargo.Asked about the videos, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged “there is resistance from criminals” in the area, long known for cartel violence, adding that “We continue to confront them.”In the video, a presumed member of the cartel can be heard mentioning the Gulf cartel faction known as The Scorpions, and saying all trucks carrying gasoline would suffer the same fate unless “they get in line,” or pay protection money to the gang.In the video, open valves on the bottom of the tankers could be seen spewing gasoline like fire hoses, as armed men looked on.“This is going to happen to all the grasshoppers,” a man's voice can be heard saying, an apparent reference to Mexican gang slang that compares those who “jump” through a cartel's territory to the hoppy insects.Criminals in the border state of Tamaulipas have long drilled into state-owned pipelines to steal fuel, but now an even more complex situation is taking place.Because of cross-border price differentials, it is sometimes profitable to import gasoline from Texas and sell it in Mexican border cities in Tamaulipas. López Obrador's administration has long complained that many of the truckers mislabel their cargo to avoid import tariffs.Others legally import U.S. gasoline, a practice the Mexican government dislikes because it reduces sales for the state-owned oil company.“We are there to protect the citizens of Tamaulipas, so they don't have to buy stolen or smuggled fuel,” López Obrador said Monday.But the Gulf drug cartel apparently demands money from both legal importers and those who seek to avoid paying import duties.One businessman who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals said the gang is demanding a payment of $500 per truck even to allow legally imported gasoline through the city of Matamoros, an important border crossing.The businessman added that Tamaulipas authorities often provide escorts for tanker trucks precisely to prevent such attacks.It was the latest instance of lawlessness in Matamoros, where in March four Americans were shot at and abducted by a drug gang. The Americans were found days later, two dead, one wounded and without physical injuries.____Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.com/hub/latin-america

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Oil, dollar prices fall on Tuesday as gold rise

AP, Tuesday 22 Aug 2023 Benchmark US crude oil for September delivery fell 37 cents to $80.35 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for October delivery fell 43 cents to $84.03 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for September delivery rose 2 cents to $2.79 a gallon. September heating oil rose 2 cents to $3.14 a gallon. September natural gas fell 7 cents to $2.56 per 1,000 cubic feet. Gold for December…

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Biden wants voters to notice inflation drop. Republicans say people are put off by everyday prices

WASHINGTON (AP) — The politics of inflation took a sharp turn Wednesday with a report showing consumer prices rose at the slowest pace since the early months of Joe Biden’s presidency. Republicans have hammered Biden over the cost of groceries, gasoline, utilities and more, saying his $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package and push for electric vehicles were responsible for pushing inflation to a…

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[ad_1] A street collapsed onto educate tracks in Baltimore, Md. in 2014 after heavy rain. The town is going through thousands and thousands of bucks in infrastructure upgrades to deal with the results of local weather exchange. AP disguise caption toggle caption AP A street collapsed onto educate tracks in Baltimore, Md. in 2014 after heavy rain. The town is going through thousands and thousands of bucks in infrastructure upgrades to deal with the results of local weather exchange. AP A federal appeals courtroom in Virginia heard a landmark case Tuesday that seeks to carry primary fossil gasoline corporations in control of their position in local weather exchange. The courtroom's determination within the case can have implications for a raft of equivalent instances introduced by means of towns, counties and states around the nation. The case was once introduced by means of town of Baltimore towards one of the greatest oil and fuel corporations on the planet, and it hinges on alleged disinformation by means of the firms. The Baltimore town govt argues that the firms will have to lend a hand pay for the prices of local weather exchange, as a result of they misled the general public about how their merchandise give a contribution to world warming. Like many towns in america, Baltimore has borne monumental and escalating local weather prices, together with thousands and thousands of bucks of wear from floods and dear infrastructure upgrades to handle unhealthy warmth waves and emerging seas. Baltimore was once one of the vital first puts to record a lawsuit looking for damages from fossil gasoline corporations. Since then, a large number of towns, together with Oakland, Calif., New York, N.Y., Annapolis, Md., Charleston, S.C. and Honolulu, Hawaii have pursued equivalent fits. So have a number of states, together with Minnesota, Delaware and Rhode Island. Not one of the instances has advanced a long way sufficient for a choose or jury to listen to any substantive arguments about whether or not oil and fuel corporations will have to pay for the damages led to by means of burning fossil fuels. As an alternative, the fossil gasoline corporations have centered their protection at the slender jurisdictional query of whether or not such court cases can continue in state courts, the place they had been initially filed. The Splendid Court docket regarded as the jurisdiction query within the Baltimore case closing yr, and determined that a federal appeals courtroom will have to come to a decision the place the Baltimore lawsuit is heard, paving the way in which for nowadays's arguments prior to a three-judge panel for the Fourth Circuit Court docket of Appeals. The verdict by means of the appeals courtroom may just have an effect on the results of different instances, particularly the court cases introduced by means of towns and counties that fall throughout the jurisdiction of the Fourth Circuit, reminiscent of Charleston, S.C. and Annapolis, Md. For instance, if the appeals courtroom unearths that Baltimore's lawsuit can also be attempted in state courtroom, that call would additionally follow to the fits introduced by means of the ones towns. In his observation on behalf of oil and fuel corporations, legal professional Kannon Shanmugam argued that state courtroom is the improper position for the lawsuit as a result of local weather exchange

is world in scope, and is regulated by means of the government and by means of world agreements. The Nationwide Affiliation of Producers, an business workforce, made an much more sweeping argument in a temporary filed in strengthen of the firms, writing, "state courts aren't situated to come to a decision who, if any person, is to be legally in control of local weather exchange, how power insurance policies will have to exchange to handle it, and the way native mitigation initiatives will have to be funded." Karen Sokol, a regulation professor at Loyola College New Orleans who research local weather legal responsibility instances, says that argument does not cling water, since the allegations towards the firms hinge on state rules which might be intended to offer protection to the general public from deceptive advertising. Baltimore is looking state courts to weigh in on what Sokol calls a "long-standing, systematic misleading advertising marketing campaign designed to cover the catastrophic risks," of fossil fuels. Instances about client coverage, together with landmark court cases involving alleged company incorrect information campaigns by means of tobacco corporations, have traditionally been attempted in state courtroom. In his observation on behalf of Baltimore's govt on Tuesday, legal professional Vic Sher argued the case is ready "disinformation and loss of disclosure." Since the query of jurisdiction remains to be unresolved, neither aspect introduced any proof Tuesday concerning the underlying query: whether or not oil and fuel corporations are answerable for deceptive the general public about how burning fossil fuels reasons catastrophic local weather exchange. The appeals courtroom is predicted to announce its determination about jurisdiction later this yr. [ad_2] #Local weather #Lawsuit #Strikes #NPR

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STIHL Offers Two New Tools For Assessing Battery Power Costs

How do small businesses and contractors make the switch to battery without knowing the hard cost and cost savings in the long run? They can’t. The bottom line is everything and they do not have to luxury to guess. There are hesitancy and nerves around switching to battery power because there is so much unknown. This is why STIHL has created resources to comfort the landscaper who is considering switching, or even the one being forced into switching to lower emissions or run quieter options.

Easily accessible on the STIHL website, are two new tools the landscaper/contractor can use for FREE:

Calculator for Battery Power Savings: This calculator tells the business owner how much gas they use in a year and how much they would SAVE if they could switch to battery operations. It compares the cost of electricity and charging costs compared to gasoline.Battery Charging Costs: Little know the cost savings battery fleets can provide. This chart provides the projected annual cost to fully charge each battery every day for a year according to recent national average electricity prices for residential customers. So business owners can know exactly how much they will be charged to charge.

*U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) – Average Price of Electricity to Residential Customers, November 2022. **Annual Charging Cost is based on charging battery once per day for 365 consecutive days. Charging data provided by Andreas Stihl AG & Company KG.

STIHL has and will continue to work hard to ensure their customers are confident and informed about the switch to battery. And where should they start? The STIHL professional line of battery products are gasoline comparable and have plenty of power, especially when partnered with the new  AP 500 S battery with lithium ion technology (exclusive to STIHL).

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Jim Ratcliffe was knighted in 2018.Valerie Hatche/AFP by way of Getty Photographs Jim Ratcliffe is considered one of Britain's richest males price greater than $11 billion based on Bloomberg. A lifelong Manchester United fan, the 70-year-old is a fan of the soccer crew. From proudly owning a biking crew to sponsoring the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 crew, this is a have a look at his life. Jim Ratcliffe is the founder and CEO of Inos, one of many world's largest chemical corporations.Getty/Bertrand GuaySupply: IneosA lifelong Manchester United fan, Ratcliffe submitted for the soccer crew this week.Getty/Katherine IvilleSupply: BBCHe promised to "return Manchester to Manchester United".Picture by Peter Byrne/PA by way of Getty PhotographsSupply: BBCRatcliffe is competing towards Qatar's Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, who submitted a revised bid for the membership on Saturday, and Finnish entrepreneur Tomas Ziliakas, per BBC Sport.Picture by Peter Byrne/PA by way of Getty PhotographsSupply: BBCPreliminary bids had been regarded as round $4.2 billion, based on Sky Sports activities Information. The Glazer household, which purchased Manchester in 2005 for round £800 million, are believed to be looking for between £5 billion and £6 billion ($6.1 billion to $7.3 billion).Getty/Lawrence GriffithsSupply: Sky Sports activitiesThe 70-year-old magnate is price greater than $11 billion, based on Bloomberg, and made his fortune within the chemical trade.Brian Lennon/Getty PhotographsSupply: Bloomberg Billionaires IndexRatcliffe, who lives in Monaco, additionally owns an property in Hampshire, England.Getty PhotographsSources: Hampshire Stay, The GuardianRatcliffe was born in Manchester and lived in public housing till the age of 10.Dennis Tangney/Getty PhotographsSupply: HeadspaceAt 18, Ratcliffe went to the College of Birmingham to review chemical engineering earlier than doing an MBA at London Enterprise Faculty.Getty PhotographsSupply: BloombergAfter graduating in 1974, he labored as an engineer for ExxonMobil-owned oil corporations Esso and BP earlier than becoming a member of cloth and chemical producer Courtaulds.Artistic Contact Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto by way of Getty PhotographsSupply: Headspace, BBCHe was headhunted by the personal fairness agency Introduction in 1989 and started in search of funding alternatives.Valerie Hatche/AFP by way of Getty PhotographsSupply: Bloomberg, HeadspaceHe joined forces with former chemical government John Hollwood and purchased BP's chemical division in 1992. Two years later it listed on the London Inventory Change and was valued at £100 million (about $150 million on the time).AP Picture/Kirsty WigglesworthSupply: BBCThe enterprise turned Inspec with Holwood as chairman and Ratcliffe as CEO.Valerie Hatche/AFP by way of Getty PhotographsSupply: BBCIn 1998, Ratcliffe arrange his personal agency, Ineos.Rafael Henrique/Sopa Photographs/Lightrocket by way of Getty PhotographsSupply: BBCRatcliffe is almost all shareholder and doesn't resolve to drift the corporate, which permits him to maneuver ahead with the deal shortly.ReutersSupply: BBCIn 2016 Ineos was criticized by inexperienced teams after it imported its first cargo of US shale gasoline, derived from fracking, into the UK.Thomson ReutersSupply: BBCRatcliffe was knighted in 2018, making him Sir Jim, however reportedly moved in 2020 to Monaco, which doesn't levy private or capital positive aspects tax. He declined to substantiate the transfer however informed the BBC he was attempting to "give again to the UK" and invested billions within the nation.John Grime/Lightrocket/Getty PhotographsSupply: BBCRatcliffe started interested by constructing a 4x4 after Land Rover introduced the discontinuation of the Defender in 2016.InosSupply: Occasions of LondonHe went forward with the thought and the Ineos Grenadier begins at £55,000 ($67,000). "It is a mixture of British know-how and German engineering," he informed The Occasions of London.InosSupply: Inos Grenadier.

The Occasions of LondonIn 2017, Ratcliffe purchased luxurious motorbike put on producer Belstaff, whose jackets had been as soon as worn by actors Steve McQueen and David Beckham.Britney FieldsSupply: BBCIn 2019 Ratcliffe biking crew purchased Group Sky and renamed it Enos Grenadiers.Group Ineos Grenadiers trip Pinarello bikes.Michael Steele/Getty PhotographsSupply: Ineos GrenadiersIn 2020, Ineos signed a partnership with Formulation One, with Mercedes-AMG sponsoring Petronas. "They've constantly demonstrated that they're on the forefront of technological innovation and human efficiency," Ratcliffe mentioned on the time.Brian Lennon/Getty PhotographsSupply: IneosInos owns a 3rd of the crew with the Mercedes-Benz Group and Toto Wolff.Emilio Morenatti - Poole/Getty PhotographsSupply: IneosIn 2017 Ratcliffe turned the proprietor of Swiss Tremendous League facet FC Lausanne-Sport and two years later French soccer membership Good.Valerie Hatche/AFP by way of Getty PhotographsSupply: IneosRatcliffe supported a luxurious clubhouse on the French ski resort of Courchevel, the place he and his daughter have skied for years.Valerie Hatche/AFP by way of Getty Photographs; Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG by way of Getty Photographs;Supply: The GuardianHe additionally reportedly owns a superyacht named Hampshire II in-built 2012.Valerie Hatche/AFP by way of Getty PhotographsSupply: Superyacht Fan.He tried however failed to accumulate Chelsea FC final yr when Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich was compelled to promote the crew after Russia invaded Ukraine.Clive Mason/Getty PhotographsSupply: BBCLearn the unique article on Enterprise Insider

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Hyundai Kona hybrid (2023): here's why the first price increases by €6,300

Hyundai Kona N-Line 2023 It was at the beginning of the month that you were able to discover on AP the charismatic features of the second generation of the Hyundai Kona, available in hybrid and electric. The Korean manufacturer has just unveiled the prices of the gasoline/electric tandem version and they turn out to be salty at first sight. 33,400 €, here is the first price of the new Hyundai…

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Egypt raises price of gasoline in latest hike amid inflation#Egypt #raises #price #gasoline #latest #hike #inflation

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt raised the price of some types of gasoline Thursday, the latest hike to beset the cash-strapped North African country amid soaring inflation. The country’s petroleum ministry said in a statement it was raising the price of three octanes of gasoline from between 0.75 to 1 Egyptian pound per liter (around 2.3 to 3.3 U.S. cents). The price hike was introduced Thursday morning, it…

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US buying 3M barrels of oil to start replenishing reserves

US buying 3M barrels of oil to start replenishing reserves

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it is buying 3 million barrels of oil to begin to replenish U.S. strategic reserves that officials drained earlier this year in a bid to stop gasoline prices from rising amid production cuts by OPEC and a ban on Russian oil imports. President Joe Biden withdrew 180 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve starting in March,…

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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Severe storm expected to unleash flooding, winds, massive waves in California (Washington Post) An unusually intense storm is poised to slam into Central and Southern California, unleashing torrential rain, damaging winds, heavy mountain snow and massive waves at the coast. The potential for flooding is particularly serious in Southern California. Forecasters at the National Weather Service are warning of a “significant threat of widespread and very dangerous flash flooding” Saturday night through Tuesday for much of the densely populated region. The cause is a very intense atmospheric river that will aim a fire hose of moisture at the coast and run up against the region’s mountainous terrain.

Inflation has fallen, but groceries are still expensive (Washington Post) Americans are finally getting a break from inflation, with prices for gasoline, used cars and health insurance all falling over the past year, relieving families and buoying President Biden’s 2024 reelection bid. But prices painfully remain high for one particularly frequent purchase: groceries. Grocery prices have jumped by 25 percent over the past four years, outpacing overall inflation of 19 percent during the same period. And while prices of appliances, smartphones and a smattering of other goods have declined, groceries got slightly more expensive last year. More than two-thirds of voters say inflation has hit them hardest through higher food prices. That’s more than 50 percentage points higher than any other category. “I think people are waiting for prices to return to what they call ‘normal’—and with the exception of a few things, like eggs—we’re not going to see that. We’re going to see prices stabilize, and that’s likely it,” said Dawn Thilmany, an agricultural economist and professor at Colorado State University.

Gangsters in El Salvador are terrified of strongman Nayib Bukele (Economist) On February 4th El Salvador is holding elections. President Nayib Bukele is constitutionally barred from standing for a second term. Yet he is standing, and he is certain to win, having brought peace to a country previously terrorised by criminal gangs. Faced with a security crisis when he took office in 2019, he has since allowed police to detain anyone whom they suspect (or claim to suspect) of gang ties. More than 74,000 people—equivalent to 8% of the young male population—have been arrested. Hardly any have had proper trials. The murder rate has fallen from 51 per 100,000 people to three, a huge improvement. Ordinary folk were previously too scared to testify against gangs. Now, their testimony is not needed: any gangster who walks down a street demanding protection money can be arrested on the basis of an anonymous phone call. Normal life has returned to bullet-pocked neighbourhoods. Gang crime used to cost a staggering 16% of GDP, by one estimate. As safety has improved, small businesses have re-opened or expanded. JP Morgan Chase, a bank, reckons El Salvador’s potential annual growth rate has risen from 2% to about 3%. The number of Salvadoreans trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States fell by a third in the last fiscal year, according to Bloomberg.

At least 46 reported dead in Chile as forest fires move into densely populated central areas (AP) Intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have caused at least 46 deaths, Chile’s president said Saturday evening, and officials said at least 1,100 homes had been destroyed. In a nationally televised address, President Gabriel Boric warned that the death toll could worsen as four large fires burn in the region of Valparaiso, where firefighters have struggled to reach the most threatened neighborhoods. Interior Minister Carolina Tohá said earlier Saturday that 92 forest fires were burning in the center and south of the country, where temperatures have been unusually high this week. The deadliest of the fires were in the Valparaíso region, where authorities urged thousands of people to evacuate their homes.

Europe’s farmers are struggling, but some sympathetic consumers have difficulty affording their food (AP) Truck driver Jeremy Donf understands French farmers are struggling and he wants to support local food producers. But like many consumers, buying French produced food isn’t always an option. Farmer protests across Europe this week have highlighted how farmers and households are both hurting these days because of multiple factors, including persistent inflation, high interest rates and volatile energy prices. “We understand their anger because we value farmers. What are we going to do if they are not here? We won’t eat. Such protests are important,” Donf said. But as he weighed Spanish-grown lemons in his suburban Paris supermarket, Donf noted that most of the produce around him was imported. And when French-grown food is available, not everyone can afford it. In a Paris market this week, Moroccan clementines and Polish mushrooms cost about half the price of their French counterparts.

How war is changing childhood in Ukraine (BBC) Ukraine’s second city is so close to the Russian border that when Moscow’s forces launch missiles, it takes a matter of seconds for them to reach their targets. Now, as the full-scale war heads towards its third year, parts of life in Kharkiv are moving underground to stay safe. Deep down in the metro, specially built classrooms run parallel to the platform at five stations. The local authorities began offering school lessons beneath the city streets several months ago. They’ve just added preschool classes on the weekends. For six-year-old Nika Bondarenko, it’s a chance to mix with other children again. After two years studying online, she skips to her local metro station in bright pink wellies. Her route passes the bombed-out ruins of military offices destroyed at the start of the invasion, opposite her home. There’s more smashed glass and shrapnel-battered buildings all around. But once Nika is on the train, heading for class, her mother can stop worrying. “Parents can be confident nothing’s going to happen to their child and a child can continue their more-or-less normal life,” Olha Bondarenko explains. “The enemy can’t get us here.”

Western officials in protest over Israel Gaza policy (BBC) More than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments’ policies on the Israel-Gaza war could amount to “grave violations of international law”. The “transatlantic statement”, a copy of which was passed to the BBC, says their administrations risk being complicit in “one of the worst human catastrophes of this century” but that their expert advice has been sidelined. It is the latest sign of significant levels of dissent within the governments of some of Israel’s key Western allies. The statement is signed by civil servants from the US, the EU and 11 European countries including the UK, France and Germany. It says Israel has shown “no boundaries” in its military operations in Gaza, “which has resulted in tens of thousands of preventable civilian deaths; and… the deliberate blocking of aid… putting thousands of civilians at risk of starvation and slow death.” “There is a plausible risk that our governments’ policies are contributing to grave violations of international law, war crimes and even ethnic cleansing or genocide,” it said.

Israel Signals Its Military Will Move Into a Gazan City Turned Refuge (NYT) Israel’s defense minister has signaled that ground forces will advance toward the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, which has become a refuge for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians pushed from their homes by nearly 13 weeks of war. Rafah, which has also been a gateway for humanitarian aid, is a sprawl of tents and makeshift shelters crammed against the border with Egypt. About half of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents have piled into and around the city, where about 200,000 people lived before the war, the United Nations said on Friday. The city is one of the last in southern Gaza that Israeli ground forces, which have been fighting house-to-house battles in nearby Khan Younis, have not yet reached. The prospect of battles in an area with so many displaced people has alarmed refugees there and United Nations officials.

US, Britain strike Yemen's Houthis in a new wave, retaliating for attacks by Iran-backed militants (AP) The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. But Washington once more did not directly target Iran as it tries to find a balance between a forceful response and intensifying the conflict. The latest strikes against the Houthis were launched by U.S. warships and American and British fighter jets. The strikes follow an air assault in Iraq and Syria on Friday that targeted other Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend. The U.S. warned that its response after the soldiers’ deaths at the Tower 22 base in Jordan last Sunday would not be limited to one night, one target or one group. While there has been no suggestion the Houthis were directly responsible, they have been one of the prime U.S. adversaries since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

WFP receiving reports of people dying of starvation in Sudan (Reuters) The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday it was receiving reports of people dying of starvation in Sudan and that the number of hungry people has doubled over the past year as a war has cut off civilians from aid. WFP called on Sudan's warring factions, the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), to provide immediate guarantees for the unimpeded delivery of relief. swNearly 18 million people across Sudan are facing acute hunger, and more than five million are experiencing emergency levels of hunger in areas worst affected by the conflict.

This Kind of Walk Is Much More Than a Workout (NYT) This week, we’re exploring “awe walks,” outdoor rambles designed to cultivate a sense of amazement. To help, I tapped Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of “Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.” Many people associate awe with places like the Grand Canyon, Dr. Keltner said. But some feel it more frequently in response to commonplace things like a nighttime sky blazing with stars, he said. In short: Awe is more accessible than you might think. And research suggests it’s good for your health, too. Awe can help calm the nervous system, reduce inflammation and foster a sense of community. People who took awe walks, one study found, felt more upbeat and hopeful than walkers who did not.

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UK Inflation Eases, Remains Close to 40-Year High : Inside US

UK Inflation Eases, Remains Close to 40-Year High : Inside US

LONDON (AP) — U.K. inflation eased in November as gasoline and diesel prices rose more slowly than the previous month. The consumer price index rose 10.7% in the 12 months through November, down from a 41-year high of 11.1% in October, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday. November’s inflation rate was less than the 10.9% expected by economists. The news comes after the U.S. on…

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Gasoline prices are slowly pulling back from 2023 highs last month. But as crude continues to pull back, drivers can expect fuel costs to drop like "wet feathers," says one oil analyst."Right now, if you are a gasoline shopper, you can find gasoline for less than $2.99/gallon in perhaps half of all states," Tom Kloza, head of energy analysis at OPIS, told Yahoo Finance."We're looking at a $0.25 to $0.50-per-gallon drop in retail that is virtually certain," he noted. "It's a glacial pace but it will be quite noticeable."Gasoline futures (RB=F) are forecasting the drop, down about $0.43 in the last week. The current national average for retail gasoline is $3.77 versus $3.84 a week ago, according to AAA. The prices of the various grades of gasoline available are displayed electronically on a pump at a filling station on Sept. 18, 2023, in Newcastle, Wyo. (David Zalubowski/AP Photo, File)Many areas will see falling prices as winter grade fuel, which is less expensive to produce, makes its way into the market.A bulk of the downward pricing pressure is also due to demand, which is at the lowest seasonal levels in 25 years, according the latest Energy Information Administration data. Gasoline demand dropped from about 9.46 million barrels a year ago to 8.78 million barrels in the last four weeks ending Sept. 30.Oil, the underlying commodity for transportation fuels, has declined rapidly this week after rallying an average of 28% last quarter.Oil jumped to a 2023 high in September amid OPEC+ output cuts, voluntary reductions from Saudi Arabia, and export restrictions from Russia.Earlier this week JPMorgan analysts predicted global oil demand would slow this quarter after crude prices recently touched $90 per barrel.“Moreover, demand restraint from rising oil prices is once again becoming visible in the US, Europe, and some EM countries,” reads the note titled "Demand destruction has begun (again)."On Thursday, West Texas Intermediate (CL=F) settled 2% lower $82.31 following a 5% slide in the prior session. Brent International (BZ=F) futures fell to close at $84.07 after also tanking on Wednesday.Story continuesInes Ferre is a Senior Business Reporter for Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter at @ines_ferre.Click here for the latest economic news and indicators to help inform your investing decisions.Read the latest financial and business news from Yahoo Finance

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Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities on Monday

AP, Monday 21 Aug 2023 Benchmark US crude oil for September delivery fell 53 cents to $80.72 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for October delivery fell 34 cents to $84.46 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for September delivery fell 5 cents to $2.77 a gallon. September heating oil fell 4 cents to $3.12 a gallon. September natural gas rose 8 cents to $2.63 per 1,000 cubic feet. Gold for December…