Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed to do “what we can to remain in power”, promising to revive an economy that has collapsed under his watch as he launched his bid for a second five-year term. Zimbabwe will hold presidential and ...
Indonesia’s police are conducting preliminary inquiries into whether any actions by officials at the country’s drug regulator could amount to criminal wrongdoing, as they expand a probe into tainted cough syrups linked to the deaths of more than 200 children ...
North Korea held mass rallies in Pyongyang where people shouted slogans vowing a “war of revenge” to destroy the United States, as it marked the 73rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, state media reported on Monday. About ...
S&P Global said it has cut its 2023 GDP growth forecast for China after May data showed a post-COVID recovery was faltering in the world’s second-largest economy. “We have reduced our 2023 GDP growth forecast to 5.2%, from 5.5%,” it ...
Global energy demand rose 1% last year and record renewables growth did nothing to shift the dominance of fossil fuels, which still accounted for 82% of supply, the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy report said on Monday. Last year ...
A water company boss has blamed people working from home for a new hosepipe ban. South East Water will impose the first hosepipe ban of the summer from Monday, affecting more than two million homes and businesses across Kent and ...
The global economy is at risk of falling into a permanent high inflationary trap that will be difficult to “dislodge” as workers and companies chase rising prices, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. In its latest annual report on ...
The prospect of a new battery factory in Northumberland has suffered a setback after the buyer of Britishvolt was raided by Australian police. Investigators went to the offices of Scale Facilitation and SaniteX, owned by Australian entrepreneur David Collard over ...
More than 20 councils across England are removing pay and display parking machines and asking people to pay using an app instead. Eight councils – all in London – have already removed all their machines, while 14 have removed some. ...
Heathrow airport security staff have called off strikes after voting to accept a pay offer. Around 2,000 members of the Unite union were due to strike on 29 days throughout summer. Unite staff at the airport had already said they ...