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The Deutsche Telekom pavilion at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.Angel Garcia | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBARCELONA — Europe’s telecommunication firms are ramping up calls for more industry consolidation to help the region compete more effectively with superpowers like the U.S. and China on key technologies like 5G and artificial intelligence.Last week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona, CEOs of several telecoms firms called on regulators to make it easier for them to combine their operations with other businesses and reduce the overall number of carriers operating across the continent.Currently, there are numerous telco players operating…
El presidente Donald Trump intensificó el jueves su guerra comercial con la Unión Europea, amenazando con imponer aranceles del 200 por ciento al vino y el champán europeos, lo que aumentó la ansiedad entre empresas y consumidores a ambos lados del Atlántico.El anuncio de Trump, en el que calificó a la Unión Europea de “hostil y abusiva”, se produjo un día después de que los líderes del bloque revelaran sus planes de tomar represalias contra una serie de aranceles estadounidenses que entraron en vigor esta semana, imponiendo aranceles del 50 por ciento a las importaciones de whisky y varios productos…
As US President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on February 28 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for an explosive meeting that would reveal deep fissures between Washington and Kyiv, he was also asked by a reporter about another world leader: Vladimir Putin. In the very setting in which he joined forces with Vice President JD Vance to berate Zelenskyy for not being grateful to the US for its military and financial aid, and for not backing his attempts at diplomacy with Moscow, Trump had more sympathetic words for the Russian president. “Let me tell you, Putin went through…
Officials say US military’s Southern Command exploring multiple options, from working with Panama to military action.The Pentagon is reportedly exploring military options for the Panama Canal to ensure ongoing US access to the strategically important waterway, following a request from the White House. The Reuters news agency reported on Thursday that a US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said a document, described as an interim national security guidance by the new Trump administration, called on US forces to look at military options to safeguard access to the Panama Canal. Responding to reports of possible US military action, Panama’s…
El presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, no descartó el jueves la propuesta de Estados Unidos y Ucrania de un alto al fuego de un mes, pero estableció numerosas condiciones que probablemente retrasarían cualquier tregua, o podrían hacerla imposible de conseguir.Los comentarios de Putin durante una conferencia de prensa reflejaban el balance que buscaba lograr: mostrar confianza en la posición de Rusia en el campo de batalla y, al mismo tiempo, intentar continuar las conversaciones con Estados Unidos y evitar disgustar al presidente Donald Trump. El presidente estadounidense, tras enemistarse con los aliados de su país y realinear la política exterior…
Officials in Beijing are increasingly worried that President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico may be the start of a broad campaign to force developing countries around the world to choose between trade with the United States or with China.Ever since Mr. Trump imposed extensive tariffs on goods from China during his first term, companies have been investing heavily in countries like Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand to assemble Chinese components into goods for shipment to the United States. Doing final assembly in these countries offered a back door to the U.S. market regardless of trade frictions between Washington and Beijing.China’s trade surplus…
Outgoing Prime Minister Mute Egede says ‘disrespect’ for Greenland must stop as US president again says he wants Arctic island.Greenland’s outgoing Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for a stronger rejection by local politicians of United States President Donald Trump’s promise to take over the strategically-located island, warning that “enough is enough”. “This time we need to toughen our rejection of Trump. People cannot continue to disrespect us,” Egede wrote on Facebook after Trump reiterated on Thursday his desire to annex the autonomous Danish territory. “The American president has once again evoked the idea of annexing us. I absolutely cannot…
(The Center Square) – The long-anticipated North Dakota lawsuit between Energy Transfer and Greenpeace is winding down, with both parties resting their cases Thursday.Energy Transfer installed the Dakota Access Pipeline from 2016-2017 but was met with opposition in North Dakota by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The pipeline would cross through land and waterways the tribe says contained sacred sites and were designated as tribal land by the Treaty of 1868.Greenpeace supported the protests with funding and training, and Energy Transfer has claimed the environmental activist group was behind the protests’ growth into a demonstration large enough to attract worldwide…
Benchmark S&P 500 falls 1.39 percent, dragging index more than 10 percent below its February peak.The United States’ stock market has taken another tumble following US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose steep tariffs on wine and other alcoholic products from the European Union. The benchmark S&P 500 fell 1.39 percent on Thursday, dragging the index into a correction – Wall Street lingo for a decline of 10 percent or more from the peak. Corrections are not unusual in the US stock market, which has consistently recovered from losses over its history, though they can be unsettling for investors in…
These are the key developments on day 1,114 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is the situation on Friday, March 14: Fighting Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces have trapped the remaining Ukrainian soldiers still in the country’s western Kursk region, where Kyiv’s troops have clung on for more than seven months in one of the key battles of the war after making a daring cross-border incursion. Putin told a news conference that the situation in Kursk was “completely under our control, and the group that invaded our territory is in isolation”. Ukraine’s military leadership has denied their forces are…