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Bloomberg The economy lost nearly 2.5 million working days to strikes last year as Britain suffered its most severe industrial action since Margaret Thatcher was in power. The Office for National Statistics said Tuesday that 843,000 working days were lost due to labor disputes in December, making it the worst month in more than a decade. That took the total ...

Bloomberg Employment in Scotland hit a record high at the end of 2022 as tightness in the labor market spread to all corners of the UK. The portion of adults who have a job climbed to 76.6% in the three months ending December, up 2.4 percentage points from a year earlier. The figures from the Office for National Statistics on ...

  Bloomberg Soaring inflation, higher interest rates and supply-chain snarls spurred by the war in Ukraine pushed most of the European Union’s biggest eastern economies into contraction in the fourth quarter. Poland’s economy shrank 2.4% from the previous three months — much worse than the 0.5% forecast in a Bloomberg survey — for its second non-consecutive decline last year. It ...

Bloomberg Nato countries may agree as soon as this summer to spend at least 2% of their economic output on defense, a slight shift from the alliance’s 10-year-old pledge to “move toward the 2% guideline.” North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the alliance’s defense ministers were supposed to discuss the target when they meet in Brussels for ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Antony Blinken is considering a meeting with Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, at a security conference later this week, people familiar with the matter said, in what would be their first face-to-face talks since an uproar over a Chinese balloon led to a new spike in tensions. Blinken and Wang would meet at the Munich Security ...

Dubai / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met a number of world leaders, officials and heads of delegations participating in the World Government Summit (WGS) 2023, which kicked off on Monday in Dubai. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed held separate meetings with HH Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Prime Minister of Kuwait; Maeen Abdulmalik ...

  Dubai / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2022, with a total revenue of AED2.8 billion, and with a remarkable growth of 13.3 percent compared to 2021. The company has recorded a net profit of AED1.001 billion, representing an increase of 7 percent compared to the previous year. The company ...

AhramanmaraÅŸ, Türkiye / WAM The UAE’s humanity is a rich legacy inherited from generation to generation. The country has always proved that humanity is action, not words, which has transformed tragedies and sufferings of people in many parts of the world into joy and happiness. With the launch of Operation “Gallant Knight / 2” under the directives of the wise ...

Bloomberg Russia’s oil exports fell to a six-week low, reversing a previous trend and providing a sign of what’s to come as it prepares for a production cut of 500,000 barrels a day next month. Aggregate flows of Russian crude fell by 562,000 barrels a day, or 16%, in the seven days to February 10, even as exports from its ...

Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp unveiled several changes to its senior management as Koji Sato prepares to take over as chief executive officer, seeking to improve the carmaker’s strategy and messaging in the shift to an electric future and to take on Tesla Inc. Hiroki Nakajima becomes chief technology officer and Yoichi Miyazaki will be chief financial officer from April 1, ...