The European Commission on Thursday welcomed the temporary maintenance of the conditions for awarding subsidies to electric cars in the United States, after the US Treasury Department said in a publication that it had delayed the publication of the final conditions. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – the official name of President Joe Biden’s climate … Read more
A former US Marine who confessed to raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in 2000 was executed on Wednesday, December 14 in the state of Mississippi. Thomas Edwin Loden, 58, received a lethal injection at 18:00 (0000 GMT) at Parchman Penitentiary, an overcrowded prison in this conservative southern US state. Thomas Loden had pleaded guilty … Read more
The US Justice Department on Tuesday announced the indictment of five Russian nationals, including a suspected security service agent, and two Americans, accused of illegally supplying Russia with sensitive electronic components and ammunition. Three of them are in custody, including one awaiting extradition to Estonia, and four are at large, he said in a statement. … Read more
China has announced that it has filed a case at the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the United States over its restrictions on semiconductor exports, accusing Washington of endangering global supply chains. In October, the United States became on behalf of “national security” announced new export controls aimed at limiting Beijing’s ability to buy and … Read more
The vote of Twitter shareholders on its acquisition by Elon Musk will take place on September 13, before the start of the lawsuit that the social network has brought against the richest man in the world in October. Twitter summoned its shareholders for a “special meetingby videoconference, according to official documents filed Tuesday with the … Read more
A bear managed to sneak into a car in the rural state of Montana, but was unable to open the door to get out, remaining stuck in the vehicle all night. The plantigrade got into the blue car “a little after eleven o’clock at night“and stayed there”until seven in the morning“Explained last week Mike Pilati, … Read more
The American authorities announced Monday August 8 that they wanted to seize in Kazakhstan the Airbus A319 of the Russian oligarch and parliamentarian Andrei Skotch, targeted by American and European sanctions in the wake of Moscow’s outbreak of the war in Ukraine. American justice obtained a “mandate” for the “seizureof this private Airbus A319-100 belonging … Read more
The Republican Party announced on Friday August 5 that it would hold its 2024 national convention to induct its presidential candidate in the US state of Wisconsin, won by a hair’s breadth by Joe Biden in 2020. Organized every four years a few months before the presidential election, the national conventions are political high masses … Read more
Stock markets fell after the announcement of better than expected employment figures in the United States, this dynamism raising fears that the American central bank will raise its rates further sharply to fight against inflation. Read alsoTokyo Stock Exchange closes at two-month high European stock markets ended in the red, after hovering around equilibrium for … Read more
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on the international community on Friday August 5 not to support the Burmese junta’s plan to hold elections next year, a “simulacrumelectoral according to him. United States “strongly urge the international community not to condone the regime’s plans to hold sham elections next yearsaid the minister from Phnom … Read more
