Article content LONDON (AP) — Doctors in the early stages of their careers in England started a 72-hour strike Wednesday in their long-running dispute with the British government over pay levels. Patients in Britain’s state-owned National Health Service have been warned that there will be “significant disruption,” with thousands of appointments and procedures postponed or […]
Article content BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s main national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, on Tuesday launched an effort to sell its logistics unit, DB Schenker, as the company seeks to concentrate on its core business at home. Schenker has about 76,600 employees in more than 130 countries and for years generated high profits, helping push Deutsche […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Matthew Brown Published Dec 19, 2023 • 4 minute read Join the conversation Article content BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to conserve groves of old-growth trees on federal land by revising management plans for national forests and grasslands across […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press David Koenig Published Dec 18, 2023 • 3 minute read Join the conversation Article content DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines will pay a $35 million fine as part of a $140 million agreement to settle a federal investigation into a debacle in December […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Alex Veiga Published Dec 16, 2023 • Last updated 12 hours ago • 2 minute read Join the conversation FILE – A sign is seen outside the Activision building in Santa Monica, Calif., June 21, 2023. In an announcement made late Friday, Dec. 15, […]
Article content RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s lower house has approved a major reform of the nation’s notoriously complicated tax system in a major victory for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who threw his weight behind the proposal. The long-awaited tax reform aims to simplify the system, widely considered overly burdensome for […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Rodney Muhumuza Published Dec 16, 2023 • 5 minute read Join the conversation Article content KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Lilian Nabulime hasn’t forgotten the time in the 1990s when the Ugandan capital had just one commercial art gallery, a small space that emerging […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Nicole Winfield Published Dec 16, 2023 • 4 minute read Join the conversation Article content VATICAN CITY (AP) — A once-powerful cardinal and nine other people are to learn their fate Saturday when a Vatican tribunal hands down verdicts in a complicated financial […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Christopher Rugaber Published Dec 16, 2023 • 5 minute read Join the conversation Article content WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the most painful inflation Americans had experienced since 1981, when “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “The Jeffersons” were topping the TV charts. Yet […]
Article content COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Monetary Fund executive board approved the release of the second tranche of a $2.9 billion dollar bailout package to help Sri Lanka recover from the worst economic crisis in its history. In a statement, the fund said the decision Tuesday to release $337 million came after […]