Category: PMN Business

Dec 28

Senegal’s Sonko Bypasses Parliament to Adopt 2025 Budget

Article content (Bloomberg) — Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko waved through next year’s budget, bypassing a parliamentary vote on the 6.4 trillion CFA-franc ($10.2 billion) package.  Article content The plan is considered adopted unless a motion of censure is submitted in the next 24 hours, according to a letter from President Bassirou Diomaye Faye read […]
Dec 28

Italy’s far-right government wins final approval for its 30-billion-euro budget

Article content ROME (AP) — Italy’s parliament on Saturday approved the government’s 2025 budget, worth a total of 30 billion euros ($31 billion) — more than half of that in tax cuts and social security benefits for low-income citizens. Article content The measures, pushed by the far-right cabinet headed by Premier Giorgia Meloni, won final […]
Dec 26

Finland stops Russia-linked vessel over damaged undersea power cable in Baltic Sea

Article content FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Finnish authorities detained a ship linked to neighboring Russia as they investigate whether it damaged a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables, police said, in the latest incident involving disruption of key infrastructure in the region. Article content Finnish police and border guards boarded the vessel, the […]
Dec 25

Russia Attacks Ukraine Energy Network in Christmas Assault

Article content (Bloomberg) — Russia launched a large-scale missile attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, prompting the country’s grid operator to limit power supplies on Christmas Day.  Article content Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Telegram Wednesday the assault from Moscow included 70 missiles, some of them ballistic, and more than 100 attack drones. Russia separately […]
Dec 25

Solar burgers: How agrivoltaics is marrying food production with green energy

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN PMN Business PMN Agriculture Author of the article: The Canadian Press Amanda Stephenson Published Dec 25, 2024  •  4 minute read *MANDATORY CREDIT * Photo by HO /The Canadian Press Article content CALGARY — Jason Bradley spent 20 years of his career as ranch manager at a 50,000-acre grazing operation in […]