BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the Solomon Islands have agreed to exempt citizens of both countries from travel visa requirements, the Chinese foreign ministry's consular affairs department said in a social media post on Thursday.
(Reporting by Liz Lee and Beijing newsroom; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
A judge has approved a $2.6-million class-action settlement involving Dollarama.The lawsuit had argued that Dollarama didn't properly display the full price of products that were subject to an eco fee. Those products include batteries, electronic toys and light bulbs. A Quebec Superior Court judge signed off on the settlement on Tuesday. Joey Zukran, a lawyer with LPC Avocats in Montreal, the firm that filed the class action, confirmed the news of the court approval. In April, a judge dismissed
One of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ accusers has given an anonymous on-camera interview about his sexual assault allegations against the music mogul, marking the first time an alleged victim of Combs has done so. In an interview with CNN, a John Doe — whose face was concealed and voice altered to maintain his anonymity — detailed …
(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s first trade war hurt American soybean farmers to the tune of $11 billion. A sequel is set to be even worse.Most Read from BloombergBrace for a Nationwide Shuffle of Corporate HeadquartersAmerican Institute of Architects CEO ResignsCloud Computing Tax Threatens Chicago’s Silicon Valley DreamSan Francisco, Paris Named Best Cities for Urban TransportationCity Hall Is HiringThe humble bean was the poster child of Trump’s first tariff spat with China, with American shipm
A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges over a dozen Canadian landlords and property managers have been part of a price-fixing scheme involving YieldStar, a controversial AI software that’s also at the heart of a U.S. Department of Justice case.
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union envoys have agreed a new raft of sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine, targeting in particular a vast shadow fleet of ships that Moscow is exploiting to skirt restrictions on transporting oil and fuel, the EU’s Hungarian presidency said on Wednesday.
We recently published a list of 8 Most Undervalued Natural Gas Stocks To Buy According To Analysts. In this article, we are going to look at where Ovintiv Inc. (NYSE:OVV) stands against other most undervalued natural gas stocks to buy according to analysts. According to a report by McKinsey published on November 5, North America’s […]
Macy’s would be more valuable if it just shut down its business and sold everything off for parts.
Despite intensifying restrictions from the US intended to stifle China's semiconductor trade, Beijing's shipments of the bedrock technology stood out as a rare bright spot in a recent export data release. China's integrated circuit exports hit a record US$144.7 billion in value for the first 11 months of 2024, growing 18.8 per cent year on year according to customs data released on Tuesday. In addition to rising global demand and the rapid development of AI, the scale of manufacturing for China'
An artificial intelligence data centre is proposed for the Municipal District of Greenview, south of Grande Prairie, Alta. It's a partnership between the MD and Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary. As Travis McEwan reports, the 58-building project would run off grid on natural gas and geothermal infrastructure.
Chinese video surveillance systems maker Zhejiang Uniview Technologies has called on the US government to reconsider the company's inclusion in a trade blacklist, as geopolitical tensions between the world's two biggest economies continue to escalate. Hangzhou-based Uniview on Tuesday was added to the so-called Entity List for enabling "human rights violations, including high-technology surveillance targeted at the general population, Uygurs, and members of other ethnic and religious minority gr
Tony Buzbee, the Texas-based attorney representing over 120 accusers of Sean “Diddy” Combs, has a new celebrity target in his sights. Jay-Z (real name: Shawn Carter) was named over the weekend as one of three allegedly complicit celebrity participants in the rape of a 13-year-old girl at a post-MTV Video Music Awards party in 2000. The suit, first filed in October, originally only named Combs and referred to the other two celebrities present with pseudonyms. Buzbee, who represents the plaintiff
China's Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), is building its third plant in Europe through a joint venture with Fiat owner Stellantis, stepping up its overseas expansion to overcome higher tariffs. The parties have agreed to spend €4.1 billion (US$4.3 billion) to build the factory in Zaragoza in northeastern Spain with a capacity to produce 50 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of batteries annually, according to a statement. One GWh can supply to
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday an appeal by artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia seeking to avoid a securities fraud lawsuit by shareholders who accused the company of misleading investors about how much of its sales depended on the volatile cryptocurrency market. The justices, who heard arguments in the case on Nov. 13, opted not to render a decision on the underlying legal dispute and instead threw out Nvidia's appeal of a lower court's ruling that allowed the 2018 class action to move forward. The Supreme Court, in determining that it should not have granted the appeal, left the lower court's decision in place.
LONDON (Reuters) -OPEC cut its 2024 global oil demand growth forecast for a fifth straight month on Wednesday and by the largest amount yet, a series of downgrades that highlights China's sputtering role as the world's demand growth engine. OPEC+ earlier this month delayed its plan to start raising output until April 2025 against a backdrop of falling prices. In a monthly report, OPEC said it expects 2024 global oil demand to rise by 1.61 million barrels per day (bpd), down from 1.82 million bpd last month.
A Winnipeg chiropractor is under police investigation after hidden cameras were found in treatment rooms, capturing one woman's bare breasts on video, say search warrant documents obtained by CBC News.
MONTREAL — A second woman testified Tuesday that Gilbert Rozon sexually assaulted her in the 1980s at the Quebec impresario's high-profile civil trial.
The rap mogul, whose real name is Shawn Carter, was accused in a civil suit on Monday of once raping a 13-year-old girl. Now he has filed a motion requesting the accuser reveal her name, instead of filing anonymously as "Jane Doe". In the document, obtained by various outlets, his lawyer Alex Spiro stated that Carter "is respectfully seeking either dismissal of the allegations or disclosure of the Plaintiff's identity". "Fair is fair. It is not consistent with justice, fairness, or the rules governing federal proceedings for the Plaintiff and her counsel to smear (Jay-Z)'s good name.”
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) start-up Hozon New Energy Automobile, which is reeling from a cutthroat price war on the mainland, plans to sell half of its cars overseas as early as 2026 and attain profitability the same year, according to its founder. The 10-year-old Shanghai-based carmaker recently downsized its operations following a series of challenges, including a cash crunch, that threatened its survival. "Through optimisation and reorganisation, the company's management structure will be
If you want to get yourself thoroughly depressed, spend a little time looking at statistics about Americans’ retirement preparedness.
Two SAG-AFTRA members filed a class action lawsuit against the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan, claiming that it failed to make adequate safeguards to prevent a recent data breach. The lawsuit was filed on Dec. 5 by members Matthew Rouillard and Kristy Munden, and seeks class action status. “SAG Health failed to protect the very customer information …
