Germany’s confectionery manufacturers produced fewer chocolate bunnies in the lead up to Easter than they did last year due to “skyrocketing cocoa prices,” an industry association announced on Friday.
Global cocoa prices quadrupled in the first…
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The big lesson for Europe? Trump backed down under pressure | Alexander Hurst
My condolences to everyone who spent days trying to play 5D chess with Donald Trump’s market-exploding tariff mess. Where Trump is involved, there is a cloud of malevolent chaos, and there is grift amid the chaos. What grandmasters there are to…
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Expert picks the top campsites to pitch a tent in across Europe this summer
Camping holidays across Europe are booming, promising adventure without breaking the bank….
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Russia Legalizes Foreign Wet Leases to Save Collapsing Aviation Sector
Russia has passed a law allowing Russian airlines to enter into wet lease agreements not only with domestic but also with foreign operators for international flights. A wet lease is a form of aircraft rental in which the…
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Russia’s key trump card
The second round of Russian-American talks at the level of the Foreign Ministry and the State Department took place in Istanbul. Moscow discussed the normalisation of the work of diplomatic missions. Ukraine was not…
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Estonia seizes Russian shadow tanker in Baltic Sea – POLITICO
It was a week when penguins, bonds, the new German coalition, Louisiana soybeans, fossil fuels, the EU’s Digital Markets Act, France’s creaking politics and American bourbon all became one…
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Finnish Parliament Votes to Ban Russians From Buying Property
Finland’s parliament voted unanimously in favor of a proposed ban on Russians from buying property and exerting “hostile influence” on the country, the Finnish Defense Ministry said…
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Amgen’s First CTO Has Big Plans For AI–And An AI Head From Nike to Help Fulfill Them
Amgen’s Sean Bruich, senior vice president of artificial intelligence and data, (left) and chief technology officer David Reese: “Most of the talent [in AI] lies outside biopharma, not within it,” Reese said.
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When Dr. David Reese, Amgen’s…
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NATO Air Forces Learn From Ukraine War in Year’s Largest Combat Exercise
LEEUWARDEN, The Netherlands — Ninety-one aircraft from 15 NATO states have finished taking part in Exercise Ramstein Flag, a two-week rehearsal of potential collective responses to an attack on a fellow member state.
While the…
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An overlooked organ may help the ovary function
When an expansive curlicue of tissue sitting below the ovaries was discovered more than a century ago, it was dismissed as useless and erased from biology textbooks. Biologists now are taking a new look at the structure and its…
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