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Centenarians increased by 30% in Italy over the past decade
Date: November 8, 2024
ROME (Reuters) – The number of people aged over 100 in Italy has increased by 30% over the past 10 years, while birth rates have continued to decline. There were more than 22,000 Italians in the age bracket between 100 and 104 in 2024, up from just over 17,000 in 2014, according to a report...
Britain’s Prince William: It’s been the hardest year of my life
Date: November 8, 2024
LONDON (Reuters) – Prince William said the past year had probably been the “hardest” of his life after a difficult period for Britain’s royal family in which both his father King Charles and wife Kate were diagnosed with cancer. Speaking to British media at the end of a visit to South Africa, the heir to...
Nvidia surpasses $3.6 trillion market value after Trump win
Date: November 8, 2024
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Shares of Nvidia rallied to a record high on Thursday, making the chipmaker the first company in history to surpass a stock market value of $3.6 trillion as Wall Street extended a rally sparked by Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The dominant AI chipmaker’s shares rose 2.2%, lifted...
Europe faces serious, tough trade talks with U.S, says Hungary’s Orban
Date: November 8, 2024
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe and the United States face tough talks on trade after Donald Trump’s U.S. election victory, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday. “The trade issue with the U.S. will come up and it will not be easy,” Orban told a news conference after a meeting of 42 European leaders in...
Diamond necklace possibly linked to Marie Antoinette’s demise up for auction
Date: November 8, 2024
By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse GENEVA (Reuters) – A diamond-studded necklace thought to be involved in a scandal that led to the eventual downfall of the last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, is being sold in Geneva next week. The Georgian-era piece containing 300 carats of diamonds being sold by a Asian private collector...
Explainer-German coalition collapses: What comes next?
Date: November 8, 2024
By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s coalition collapsed on Wednesday as Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister and paved the way for a snap election, triggering political chaos in Europe’s largest economy hours after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. After dismissing Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the Free Democrats (FDP) party, Scholz...