European stocks close lower as focus turns to Fed, U.S. inflation; UK wage growth holds
LONDON — European stocks fell on Tuesday as investors looked ahead to the Federal Reserve's next meeting and U.S. inflation data.
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In Singapore’s brewing election battle, immigration anxiety takes centre stage
“The campaign message hangs on one issue: foreign workers,” said Chee Soon Juan, secretary general of the Singapore Democratic Party, during its campaign launch last month.
Hunter Biden guilty in criminal gun trial
A jury convicted Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, of all three counts at his criminal gun trial in Delaware federal court on Tuesday morning.
Europe is reckoning with a 'much more unpredictable' U.S., former EU chief says
A more "unpredictable" U.S. will only add to the challenges facing the incoming European Parliament as it navigates increasingly fraught ties with China and Russia, according to former EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso.
Malawi's vice president and 9 others are confirmed dead after the wreckage of their plane is located
Malawian Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people died when the small military plane they were traveling in crashed in bad weather in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the president said Tuesday. Chilima was 51.
UK unemployment nears three-year high, wage growth firm as election looms
LONDON — U.K. unemployment unexpectedly rose to its highest level in two and a half years, data showed Tuesday, amid a heated general election campaign in which the economy is a key battleground.
EU is expected to unveil tariff plans for Chinese EVs this week
The European Union is expected to reveal its tariff rate plan for Chinese electric vehicles this week, as the bloc cracks down on low-priced, subsidized imports.