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Sweden’s Minister of Foreign Trade and International Development Cooperation Johan Forssell speaks during a press conference at an informal EU meeting between EU trade ministers at the Scandinavian XPO in Märsta outside Stockholm, Sweden, on March 10, 2023. (Photo by Caisa RASMUSSEN / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by CAISA RASMUSSEN/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images)

Sweden wants to pay immigrants up to $34,000 to voluntarily leave

By Pia Ohlin, Johannes Ledel, and others

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during an event at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. Apple Inc. unveiled a new version of its smartwatch with a bigger screen and the ability to detect sleep apnea, part of an event Monday that will also include the iPhone 16 smartphone. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Apple gets green light from FDA to add feature that will let AirPods Pro 2 be used as hearing aids

By Glenn Chapman and AFP

FNEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 8: Elon Musk attends the men’s final on day fourteen of the 2024 US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center on September 8, 2024 in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City. (Photo by Jean Catuffe/GC Images)

Musk brands Australian government ‘fascists’ after they try to fine tech giants that fail to stem misinformation

By AFP

A woman walks out of a 7-Eleven convenience store along a street in central Tokyo on August 22, 2024. The Japanese operator of 7-Eleven, Seven & i Holdings, confirmed on August 19 it had received a takeover bid from Canadian retail giant Alimentation Couche-Tard. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)

Japan makes 7-Eleven takeover more difficult by designating convenience store parent a ‘core’ industry

By AFP

SHANGHAI, CHINA – AUGUST 12, 2024 – pwc in Shanghai, China, August 12, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

China bans PwC for 6 months and fines it $62 million over botched Evergrande audit

By Peter Catterall and AFP

"Together with DSV, our goal is to transform the industry and build a truly global market leader with joint European roots for the best of our employees and our customers," Schenker CEO Jochen Thewes said.

Denmark’s DSV wins biggest bid to date—acquires Deutsche Bahn unit for €14.3 billion

By AFP

Summer morning. Russia. Stavropol region.

Bike-loving Dutch grapple with illegal electric ‘fatbike’ craze gripping the Netherlands

By AFP

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde addresses a press conference on the Eurozone’s monetary policy, at the central bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on September 12, 2024. The European Central Bank on September 12, 2024 slightly lowered its growth expectations for the entire length of the forecast, while leaving inflation projections unchanged. (Photo by Daniel ROLAND / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL ROLAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Christine Lagarde admits predecessor Mario Draghi’s verdict on EU’s falling competitiveness is ‘severe’ but ‘just,’ as ECB cuts rates a second time

By AFP

One of Googles office buildings in Dublin seen from Clanwilliam Terrace, in Grand Canal Dock.

Ireland launches privacy inquiry into Google AI data use in EU after halting Meta and X

By Ryan Hogg and AFP

SUN VALLEY, ID – JULY 10: (L-R) Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp and co-chairman of 21st Century Fox, and Jerry Hall arrive at the Sun Valley Resort of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference July 10, 2018 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Every July, some of the world’s most wealthy and powerful business people in media, finance, technology and political spheres converge at the Sun Valley Resort for the exclusive weeklong conference. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Murdoch’s £5.6 billion bid for U.K. property portal Rightmove rejected by management as ‘opportunistic and fundamentally undervalued’

By AFP

CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos (R) gestures as he addresses the Amazon’s annual Smbhav event in New Delhi on January 15, 2020. – Bezos, whose worth has been estimated at more than $110 billion, is officially in India for a meeting of business leaders in New Delhi. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Amazon to expand U.K. operations with £8 billion investment in new AWS data centers over five years

By AFP

Shoppers in a Zara store in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Zara parent Inditex sees retail profits surge to €2.8 billion as its new collection lures more shoppers

By Prarthana Prakash and AFP

A photo of China's Xi Jinping.

China refuses to sign agreement to ban AI from controlling nuclear weapons

By AFP

Customers queue to purchase iPhone 15 handsets at the Apple Store

Judgement day for Apple and Google: EU upholds €15.4 billion in fines and back taxes against the tech giants

By Prarthana Prakash and AFP

Northvolt CEO Peter Mikael Carlsson

Swedish battery maker Northvolt blames ‘challenging’ market for fresh workforce job cuts

By AFP