Business News Google’s parent company Alphabet exceeded Wall Street expectations last quarter. 04/30/2026, 03:2104/30/2026, 03:21 Sales grew by 22 percent year-on-year to around $109.9 billion. Analysts on average had expected revenue of a good $107 billion. The bottom line is that quarterly profits rose to $62.6 billion from $34.5 billion a year earlier. The Google […]
Continue ReadingApril 29, 2026, 11:07 p.mApril 29, 2026, 11:07 p.m Visitors examine the “over-coffined” reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.Image: keystone According to information from Kiev, the USA wants to contribute $100 million to repair the containment shell over the accident reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that collapsed around 40 years ago. […]
Continue ReadingThe conditions were simple, said party colleague Márton Hajdu: there should be no corruption, and the government should not interfere with the functioning of the courts. However, Magyar is in a hurry and his new government will have its work cut out to meet those conditions in a short space of time.
Continue ReadingAhead of the first-ever EU–Armenia summit, FRANCE 24’s François Picard sits down with Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ararat Mirzoyan, at the country’s newly inaugurated embassy in Paris. He presents a country at a pivotal juncture: one defined by the simultaneous consolidation of peace and strategic repositioning. He asserts that “we now have peace between Armenia […]
Continue ReadingUrsula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, with Volodymyr Zelenskyj at a meeting in Brussels in 2025.Image: Keystone analysis Ukraine’s military know-how is the best defense against a Russian attack. April 29, 2026, 7:59 p.mApril 29, 2026, 7:59 p.m follow me There are so many different ways to worry: While in Washington, after […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 04/29/2026 – 19:52 GMT+2•Updated 19:57 China has called on EU member states to revise the bloc’s proposed “Made in Europe” legislation, according to Suo Peng, trade and economy minister at China’s mission in Brussels. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The European Union is currently debating the draft, which was unveiled by the European Commission in March […]
Continue ReadingThe final operation to save the whale is being closely followed, after the failure of earlier attempts.
Continue ReadingPublished on 04/29/2026 – 18:54 GMT+2 An international taskforce formed to crack down on “violence for hire” has led to 280 arrests in its first year, the European Union’s police agency Europol said on Wednesday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The arrests underscore a trend across the continent of criminals hiring people, many of them youngsters, via social […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 04/29/2026 – 17:47 GMT+2 Women MEPs will be allowed to delegate their vote to a colleague before and after childbirth, thanks to a new measure aimed at strengthening work-life balance – despite claims that it runs against the European Parliament’s gender equality policy. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The changes, adopted by MEPs in Strasbourg on […]
Continue ReadingThe Iran war has already cost the Pentagon $25 billion, a top Defense Department official said Wednesday, providing the first official price tag for a U.S. military campaign that has stretched two months. Acting Pentagon comptroller Jules Hurst gave the figure during a House Armed Services Committee hearing alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint […]
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