ROSTOV REGION, Russia - Under the sweltering sun and in temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius, farmers in the Rostov region, Russia's breadbasket, toil to salvage a harvest battered by heatwave, frosts and floods.
Slovak lawmakers approved changes to the country's criminal code, increasing punishments for crimes involving European Union funds as the government seeks to soothe concerns from the bloc's executive.
BRUSSELS - In February, Europe's political and foreign policy elite heard directly from Senator J.D. Vance on his opposition to military aid for Ukraine and his blunt warning that Europe will have to rely less on the United States to defend the continent.
BERLIN - After significant price increases in Germany last year, holidaymakers enjoyed 3.1% lower prices for flights abroad in the first six months 2024 compared to last year's period, the statistics office said on Tuesday.
BOGOTA - Colombia's government has ended a ceasefire with some factions of the EMC rebels, led by commander Ivan Mordisco, who reject peace talks, the defense ministry said on Tuesday.
FRANKFURT - A top German prosecutor who led a years-long effort to crack down on a giant tax fraud vowed on Tuesday in her new role as an activist that she will fight to limit the influence of lobbyists and seek the return of 28 billion euros ($30.53 billion) in taxes.
MADRID - Spanish authorities confirmed on Tuesday that the body found in a remote area on the island of Tenerife a day earlier was that of missing British teenager Jay Slater and the injuries sustained were compatible with an accidental fall.
VILNIUS - The power grid operators of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have signed an agreement to decouple from the Soviet-era joint BRELL power grid with Russia and Belarus in February 2025.
LONDON - Britain's deputy prime minister on Tuesday played down comments by U.S. vice presidential contender J.D. Vance that Britain was an Islamist nuclear-armed country, saying he had a history of making \"fruity\" remarks.
CAIRO - More than 10 million Sudanese, or 20% of the population, have been driven from their homes since the war there began, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday, as the world's largest displacement crisis continues to worsen.
Since working from home is becoming a norm, setting up your home to make it conducive and noise-free so that you can focus on your work and video calls without interruption is becoming more than essential.
Some Singaporeans may have tuned into the NDP Rally expecting more announcements about housing affordability. Instead, the Prime Minister spent much of his 2025 address on global politics and geopolitical shifts. Nonetheless, the Prime Minister did acknowledge that housing is an ongoing concern, saying that: “Besides jobs, we will continue to focus on areas that […]
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Many years ago – so far back that Stacked didn’t exist yet – I put out an article about how SERS might not be the end-game we were all expecting. This was close to two decades ago, when some of us still held out for the possibility that SERS would be the generous solution to […]
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Investec, Rathbones and Commerzbank have renewed leases with joint landlords Wing Tai Properties and Manhattan Holdings.
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The moves form part of its ongoing 'project transform' programme.
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