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  • Volvo Cars’ CEO Hakan Samuelsson is pictured at the Volvo Showroom in Stockholm as the Volvo Cars was listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange in Stockholm on October 29, 2021. – Sweden OUT (Photo by Jonas EKSTROMER / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by JONAS EKSTROMER/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Volvo Cars to cut 3,000 jobs—mostly in Sweden—in $1.9 billion cost-cutting plan

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  • FILED – 23 April 2025, Qatar, Doha: The CEO of Thyssenkrupp, Miguel Angel Lopez Borrego, stands in Qatar’s Chamber of Commerce and exchanges business cards with local business representatives. He is part of the business delegation visiting Qatar and the United Arab Emirates alongside North Rhine-Westphalia’s Minister President Hendrik Wüst in search of new business partners. Photo: Wolf von Dewitz/dpa (Photo by Wolf von Dewitz/picture alliance via Getty Images)Finance

    German industrial titan, Thyssenkrupp, prepares for a major shake-up—raising concerns over job cuts and a looming break-up

    By Sam Reeves and AFP
  • Defence lawyer Marc Langrock (L) attends the trial against four former Volkswagen executives, charged with misconduct over their role in the carmaker’s manipulation of diesel emissions testing, in Braunschweig, northern Germany, on April 16, 2025. The defendants stand accused of organised commercial fraud and tax evasion in relation to the “dieselgate” scandal which rocked the global car industry in September 2015, when Volkswagen admitted tampering with millions of diesel vehicles to dupe pollution tests. (Photo by Michael Matthey / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL MATTHEY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Leadership

    4 former Volkswagen managers convicted in ‘dieselgate’ emissions-cheating scandal

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  • HEINUJARVI, FINLAND – NOVEMBER 19: A soldier wearing the Finnish flag on his sleeve speaks to the media, as members of the Finnish arctic expert Jaeger Brigade train British, Swiss and french troops in cold-weather logistics on November 19, 2024 near Heinujarvi, Finland. The exercises include service members from 28 Allied and partner nations, and are taking place between November 4-24, across locations in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Poland, and Romania. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)Politics

    Europe is on edge as Russia builds up forces on Finland’s border. Could this frontier be the next conflict zone?

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  • LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 20: In this photo illustration coverage of the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II is seen on the front page of Britain’s The Daily Telegraph newspaper on September 20, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Rob Pinney/Getty Images)Finance

    Britain’s 170-year-old newspaper—The Telegraph—is set to be sold to U.S. investment group for $670 million

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  • HAMBURG, GERMANY – APRIL 15: A cargo ship laden with shipping containers motors past dock cranes at Hamburg Port on April 15, 2025 in Hamburg, Germany. A 90-day pause by the European Union on reciprocal tariffs against the USA went into effect today. EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic was in Washington D.C. yesterday in an effort to negotiate with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over defusing the the threat of escalating tariffs. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)Finance

    German growth hits 0.4% in Q1, double the forecast as pre-tariff exports surge

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  • Airbus A320-251N, from easyJet (NEO Livery) company, landing at Barcelona-El Prat airport, in Barcelona, Spain, on April 1 2025. (Photo by Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images) — (Photo by Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Finance

    EasyJet posts widening losses owing to weaker demand and high costs through slow winter season

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  • People watch excavators tearing down a bridge of the A100 motorway in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district on April 12, 2025. The closure will affect the northern direction of travel of Berlin’s A100 autoroute, a vital throughway for car traffic in the city’s western districts. (Photo by Tobias Schwarz / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Collapsing bridges and crumbling roads: Germany’s infrastructure time bomb needs more than money to fix

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  • Large scale Chanel No. 5 perfume advertising poster outside Boots on 4th December 2024 in London, United Kingdom. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)Retail

    Chanel’s profits plunge 28% as global turbulence threatens the luxury giant’s pricing power

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  • An M&S store in Victoria, London, after the retailer updated the stock market on its financial performance. Marks and Spencer has said disruption from a major cyber attack is expected to continue through to July and reduce operating profits by around £300 million before action to offset the hit. Picture date: Wednesday May 21, 2025. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)Retail

    The $404 million cyberattack: Britain’s M&S faces pay hit and expects disruption to last through to July

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  • A view of the Middelgrunden wind farm, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on September 11, 2024. -Middelgrunden, when it was built in 2000, was the world’s largest offshore farm. The wind farm is located 3.5km offshore of the Danish coast. The farm delivers about 4% of the power for Copenhagen. (Photo by Manuel Romano/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Environment

    Denmark doubles down on offshore wind with $8.3 billion in state support

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  • A farmer looks at soybean plants in a dry, cracked field at a farm in Rosario, Argentina, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. A La Nina weather pattern that wreaked havoc on Argentina’s farms just two years ago was expected to be kinder this time around, but as the growing season gets under way, a long bout of dry weather is emerging again. Photographer: Sebastian Lopez Brach/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEnvironment

    Dry spell worries farmers as Britain suffers its driest spring since 1852

    By Clara Lalanne and AFP
  • Japan’s Agriculture Minister Taku Eto (C) responds to a question about his own statement that he has never purchased rice, at the House of Councillors Budget Committee meeting inside the parliament in Tokyo on May 19, 2025. Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on May 20 criticised the farm minister for claiming he never buys rice because he gets it free, provoking the ire of consumers facing soaring prices. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Japan’s farm minister is in trouble after boasting that he never buys rice after getting so much of it for free

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  • Robin Zeng, founder and chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), during the company’s listing ceremony at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. CATL rose in its Hong Kong trading debut after the Chinese battery giant wrapped up the world’s biggest listing this year by raising HK$35.7 billion ($4.6 billion) despite being blacklisted by the Pentagon and grinding through geopolitical storms. Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    CATL shares jump over 18% in Hong Kong debut, as battery giant shrugs off U.S. scrutiny and China’s EV price war

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  • Michael O'Leary, chief executive officer of Ryanair Holdings Plc, during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, UK, on Monday, May 19, 2025. Ryanair said profit growth this year will depend on working through the risk of tariff wars, geopolitical conflicts and macro-economic blows.Retail

    Ryanair fares set to rise by nearly 20% as airline plots profit rebound

    By Ryan Hogg, Alexandra Bacon, and others