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Four-day work week boosts Spanish workers’ health, pilot programme shows
Date: October 17, 2023
Four-day work week boosts Spanish workers’ health, pilot programme shows MADRID (Reuters) – Four-day work weeks improved Spanish workers’ health such as by lowering stress while reducing fuel emissions and benefiting children, a pilot programme showed on Tuesday. The coastal city of Valencia – Spain’s third-largest with more than 800,000 inhabitants – scheduled local holidays...
Oil prices edge higher ahead of Biden Middle East trip
Date: October 17, 2023
Oil prices edge higher ahead of Biden Middle East trip By Nicole Jao NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices edged higher on Tuesday ahead of a trip by U.S. President Joe Biden to the Middle East that is likely to involve balancing support for Israel with trying to prevent any regional escalation of its war...
Vitol to spend half of its capex on low-carbon, renewables -CEO
Date: October 17, 2023
Vitol to spend half of its capex on low-carbon, renewables -CEO LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s top independent energy trader Vitol will invest around half of its $2 billion capital expenditure on low-carbon and renewables, its CEO Russel Hardy said on Tuesday. “We’ve got a fair amount of capex going into the renewables and power...
Volkswagen picks firm for Xinjiang site labour audit -sources
Date: October 17, 2023
Volkswagen picks firm for Xinjiang site labour audit -sources SHANGHAI/FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen has found a company to conduct a labour audit at a site in Xinjiang, China, which it jointly owns with SAIC Motor Corp, two people familiar with the matter said, after pressure from investors for further due diligence. The sources, speaking on...
Poland, EU’s biggest poultry producer, reports bird flu outbreak
Date: October 17, 2023
Poland, EU’s biggest poultry producer, reports bird flu outbreak PARIS (Reuters) -Poland, the European Union’s largest poultry producer, has reported an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus among poultry in the northern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday. The spread of bird flu has...
EU Commission proposes measures to curb microplastic pollution from pellets
Date: October 17, 2023
EU Commission proposes measures to curb microplastic pollution from pellets By Marine Strauss and Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission proposed measures on Monday to prevent microplastic pollution from the spillage of plastic pellets into the environment. Around 176,000 metric tons of microplastics are unintentionally released into the environment each year, according to the...