Italy's GDP grows 0.5 pct in 2024: ISTAT

Jan 31, 2025

Rome [Italy], January 31: Italy's economy sputtered into the final quarter of last year with expansion of just 0.5 percent for 2024 as a whole,...

Norwegian Centre Party quits coalition gov't over EU energy directives

Jan 31, 2025

Helsinki [Finland], January 31: Norway's Centre Party announced on Thursday that it is leaving the coalition government due to its opposition to European Union (EU)...

Romania faces surge in respiratory infections

Jan 31, 2025

Bucharest [Romania], January 31: Romania recorded 133,635 cases of acute respiratory infections and eight flu-related deaths in the week from Jan. 20 to 26, the...

NATO scrambles for drones that can survive the Arctic

Jan 31, 2025

New York [US], January 31: In 2023, Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car to keep warm while he tested...

Belgian airspace reopens after short closure over technical issue

Jan 31, 2025

Brussels [Belgium], January 31: Belgian airspace reopened on Thursday after a closure lasting a little over an hour due to a technical issue with air...

France's Le Pen condemns death threats against those trying her

Jan 31, 2025

Paris [France], January 31: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said those behind death threats against a judge and prosecutors trying her in a graft...

Nicaragua's Ortega expands power

Jan 31, 2025

Managua [Nicaragua], January 31: Constitutional reforms proposed by Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega to further consolidate power by extending his control over other parts of government...

Colombia government to propose $2.86 billion tax reform

Jan 31, 2025

Bogota [Colombia], January 31: The Colombian government plans to pitch a new tax reform to Congress.

Japan asks 1.2 million people to refrain from bathing to save driver from 'death pit'

Jan 31, 2025

Tokyo [Japan], January 31: The sinkhole suddenly appeared in the city of Yashio in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, during the morning rush hour on January 28,...