Ever since Joe Biden announced his run for the White House, the media has been asking about his involvement in his sons business dealings with foreign countries.
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The German renewablesfirm Siemens Energy announced Wednesday that the CEO of its troubled wind turbine unit will be replaced amid “comprehensive restructuring measures.”
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Freight costs are rising due to supply chain issues emerging following extreme weather events, like recent flooding in Dubai and conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Ships are being forced to travel further to avoid the dried-up Panama Canal and attacks in the Red Sea by Houthi rebels. Shipping companies are spending more on fuel and insurance premiums. The impact is not as substantial as the early period of the COVID pandemic, where air freight was also disrupted, and workforces were trimmed. But consumers are being warned to expect prices and be more patient, as retailers use slower methods to get stock. Despite higher interest rates, inflation, and soaring energy costs, global trade is still tipped to rise in 2024 by the World Trade Organization.#ABCBusiness Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVERead more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-29/pirates-protectionism-and-profits-boost-shiiping-costs/103764156 ABC News provides around the clock coverage of news events as they break in Australia and abroad. It’s news when you want it, from Australia’s most trusted news organisation.For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZYWatch more ABC News content ad-free on ABC iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1Go deeper on our ABC News In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2Like ABC News on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.auFollow ABC News on Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcnews_auFollow ABC News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcnewsNote: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated.#ABCNews #ABCNewsAustralia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a Russian attack targeted gas facilities important for supply to the European Union, and that the attack included electricity and gas-transit facilities. #News #russiaukrainewar #enegy #Reuters #Newsfeed Read the story here: https://reut.rs/3UjOJM9 👉 Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribeKeep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/Follow Reuters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReutersFollow Reuters on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReutersFollow Reuters on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reuters/?hl=en
Russia launched a barrage of missiles against Ukraine overnight, in attacks that appeared to target the country’s energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, Russia said its air defense systems had intercepted more than 60 Ukrainian drones over the southern Krasnodar region.Related video above: House approves $95 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and othersUkraine’s air force said Saturday that Russia had launched 34 missiles against Ukraine overnight, of which 21 had been shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.In a post on Telegram, Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko said energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk in the south of the country and Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv in the west had been attacked and that an engineer was injured.Private energy operator DTEK said four of its thermal power plants were damaged and that there were “casualties,” without going into detail.Earlier this month, Russia destroyed one of Ukraine’s largest power plants and damaged others in a massive missile and drone attack as it renewed its push to target Ukraine’s energy facilities.Ukraine has appealed to its Western allies for more air defense systems to ward off such attacks. At a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on Friday, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the U.S. will provide Ukraine with additional munitions and gear for its air defense launchers.Further east, a psychiatric hospital was damaged and one person was wounded after Russia launched a missile attack overnight on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv. Photos from the scene showed a huge crater on the grounds of the facility and patients taking shelter in corridors. Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said a 53-year-old woman was hurt.Also in the Kharkiv region, a man was killed in an overnight attack on the city of Vovchansk, according to Ukraine’s State Service for Emergency Situations.In Russia, the Defense Ministry said Russian air defense systems had intercepted 66 drones over the country’s southern Krasnodar region. Two more drones were shot down over the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.The governor of the Krasnodar region, Veniamin Kondratyev, said that Ukrainian forces targeted an oil refinery and infrastructure facilities but that there were no casualties or serious damage. The regional department of the Emergency Situations Ministry reported that a fire broke out at the Slavyansk oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban during the attack.Ukrainian officials normally decline to comment on attacks on Russian soil, but the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said Saturday that two oil refineries in the Krasnodar region had been hit by drones.Five people were wounded in a drone attack in a border village in Russia’s Belgorod region, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
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