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Inflation will hit 7.6% in the Eurozone and 8.3% in Europe as a whole this year, according to the European Commission’s revised forecasts on Thursday, 1.5% up on the previous predictions. In May, the EU’s executive arm projected Eurozone inflation to hit 6.1% this year, before falling to 2.7% in …

US crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has suspended access to more than Can$5 million (about $4 million) raised by ‘Freedom Convoy 2022’ – a trucker convoy heading to Ottawa to protest the vaccine mandate. About 50,000 trucks aim to take part in a massive demonstration against rules recently imposed by the government, …

More than 2,000 IPOs, not including special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), raised $402 billion in 2021 globally, data from Refinitiv shows. This represents growth of 81% in proceeds and a 51% increase in the total number of IPOs from the year before. SPACs, or shell companies listed on a stock …

Ari Agbayani, who was proudly presented to comic books fans last week, is to show up in the September issue of ‘United States of Captain America’. Rather than taking the famous superhero identity for herself, she is one of several local heroes inspired by the example of the original Cap …

“Pregnant people experienced the same side effects as others following vaccination,” the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle Walensky said at a White House briefing on Friday. “Importantly, no safety concerns were observed for people vaccinated in the third trimester or safety concerns for …

The centenarian captured the nation’s hearts last year as he completed 100 laps of his garden while using his zimmer frame ahead of his 100th birthday, raising almost £33 million for the NHS. Moore, who was knighted by the Queen for his stellar fundraising efforts, had been battling pneumonia for …

Moore, known to the public as Captain Tom, has been fighting pneumonia for the past few weeks, while also recently being diagnosed with Covid-19, his daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, wrote on Twitter. The veteran was taken to Bedford Hospital as he needed “additional help” with breathing, she said. However, Ingram-Moore specified …

Thursday night’s second and last presidential debate in Tennessee went far more smoothly than the previous one. There was still plenty of emotional manipulation to go around, however. On at least three occasions, Biden changed the subject to start waxing worried about American families and how they were coping with …

While doing a small interstate campaign tour on Wednesday, the 77-year-old politician was filmed frequently coughing to the point of sometimes having to clear his throat before continuing speaking. Biden appeared to have put some Americans on the alert, as both his supporters and Donald Trump’s began obsessing over the …

And in America blacks lynched. And it’s no longer a joke. Go play on a survival of the so-called American nation. From may 27 to June 20, 6 young black people, sane, not drug addicts, hanged on the branches of spreading trees. They were United by only one thing – …