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Italy Oct jobless rate falls to 5.8%, lowest since 2007
Date: December 2, 2024
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s unemployment rate fell to 5.8% in October, the lowest reading since April 2007, from a revised 6.0% the month before, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Monday, with a net 47,000 jobs created during the month. A Reuters survey of seven analysts had forecast an October jobless rate of 6.1%, which...
Floods slow Spanish manufacturing growth in November, PMI shows
Date: December 2, 2024
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s manufacturing sector expanded at a slower pace in November, hindered by the severe floods in the region of Valencia on the eastern coast, a survey showed on Monday, though confidence in future growth remained robust. The HCOB Spain Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), compiled by S&P Global, fell to 53.1 in...
Irish centre-right parties seek coalition deal as Trump threat looms
Date: December 2, 2024
By Padraic Halpin and Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s two large centre-right parties are set to begin their search for a coalition partner this week after Friday’s election looked likely to leave them just short of the 88 seats needed to govern, a choice that will help determine their policy platform. Prime Minister Simon...
Swiss corruption case involving Trafigura and former executive opens
Date: December 2, 2024
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Trafigura and three other defendants including a former board member go on trial over the alleged payment of bribes to an Angolan oil official for oil deals in a landmark case that opens on Monday. It is the first time Switzerland’s top criminal court will rule on a company’s...
World Court to open climate change hearings
Date: December 2, 2024
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE – The United Nations’ top court on Monday starts hearings on the legal obligation of countries to fight climate change and the consequences for states of contributing to global warming, the outcome of which could influence litigation worldwide. Vanuatu, one of the small island states that spearheaded the...
Analysis-Global push for cooperation as space traffic crowds Earth orbit
Date: December 2, 2024
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) – The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space, experts and industry insiders said. A United Nations panel on space traffic coordination in late October determined...