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Japan’s household spending slumps most since pandemic

Outlays by households adjusted for inflation declined 6.8% in September from a year earlier, led by transport, education and entertainment.

The Japan Times3 hours ago

Hegseth accused of crimes and misconduct in impeachment effort

Hegseth is among the most enthusiastic backers of the Iran war, which spiked energy prices, fueled inflation and doomed Republicans in the midterms.

The Japan Times6 hours ago

How China's hunger for green stones fuels Myanmar's civil war

The jade-smuggling trade is growing in Myanmar, exposing how the global hunger for precious minerals can finance and fuel conflict.

ABC News9 hours ago

High fossil fuel prices spread inflation ‘like a cancer’, UN climate chief tells Cop31

Simon Stiell makes opening address at summit in Turkey, where talks are under way about speeding up shift to electrification A global fossil fuel price crisis is “spreading inflation like a cancer” around the planet, the

The Guardian10 hours ago

French officials accuse Iran of being behind fridge cyberattacks

France on Monday said Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were behind “unprecedented” cyberattacks on supermarket fridges in the country last month, vowing sanctions on a European level against Tehran. That would make the hacks

South China Morning Post11 hours ago

There’s more than a whiff of politics to the sudden call to slash Labor’s green energy subsidies

EVs and home batteries are in Treasury’s crosshairs despite a better economic case for scaling back nuclear-powered submarines and diesel fuel rebates for miners Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podca

The Guardian14 hours ago

Stop undermining Jim Chalmers, environment minister urges Labor colleagues

‘It’s pretty obvious that there are all sorts of people making all sorts of comments,’ Murray Watt says after budget savings meeting Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The environment minister,

The Guardian22 hours ago

Ousted Paraguay president under house arrest after banking crisis leaves 60% of country unable to access accounts

Santiago Peña was detained minutes after he was impeached by Congress, as protesters took to the streets demanding answers after the suspension of the Ueno bank Paraguay’s rightwing president has been placed under house

The Guardian3 days ago