Lula, Trump to meet soon after call as tariff dispute hits Brazil’s exports
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to meet in person following a friendly video call on Monday, rais...
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says rising energy prices are the main economic concern for her government.
Speaking at the annual Confindustria meeting in Bologna, Meloni said her team is looking into whether speculation is driving prices up.
“The government is working on an analysis of the functioning of the Italian market to understand whether possible anomalies in the formation of the unique national price could be the cause of unjustified price increases,” she said.
“If there were speculations on the backs of who produces and creates employment, it would be unacceptable.”
Her remarks followed a speech by Confindustria President Emanuele Orsini, who warned that Italian businesses are struggling to stay competitive due to high energy costs.
"Our companies continue to suffer from an energy (price) surcharge of more than 35% over the European average, even reaching peaks of 80% when compared to the largest European countries," Orsini said.
He urged the government to reform energy pricing and cut overall costs for businesses, including those tied to electricity.
He also called for fewer hurdles to produce energy from renewable sources and a return to the production of nuclear energy, which was banned in Italy in 1987.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
Heads of state are due to start arriving in the Amazonian city of Belém in a month’s time for the United Nations climate summit, yet much of the infrastructure intended to welcome them remains incomplete.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to meet in person following a friendly video call on Monday, raising hopes of improving relations strained by tariffs and political disputes.
Clashes have broken out in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo after Kurdish YPG militants allegedly violated a ceasefire agreement and attacked Syrian forces and civilians.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to further strengthen his country’s alliance with Russia, in a letter to President Vladimir Putin marking his birthday and praising his leadership.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has alleged that Russian missiles and drones contain tens of thousands of components sourced from Western companies, calling for stricter sanctions to block these supply chains.
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