Trump will quit NATO, Hillary Clinton says, as anxiety mounts over U.S. commitment to the alliance
NATO members on Saturday weighed the U.S.’s possible withdrawal from the military alliance if Donald Trump returns to the White House.
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World leaders react to reports of Navalny’s death; Yulia Navalnaya says Putin won’t go unpunished
World leaders on Friday reacted with dismay to reports of the death of prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Siberian penal colony.
Japan is no longer the world’s third-largest economy as it slips into recession
Japan’s 2023 nominal GDP came in at 591.48 trillion yen, or $4.2 trillion, while Germany’s stood at 4.12 trillion euros, or $4.46 trillion.
Delivery Hero CEO happy to keep Asia unit Foodpanda ‘forever’ after stock plunged on sale outlook
Delivery Hero CEO Niklas Ostberg says he is happy to hold onto Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda unit “forever,” suggesting he’s not in a rush to sell.
Coca-Cola CEO says inflation is moderating in most markets after higher prices boost revenue
In the majority of Coke’s markets, shoppers were only paying about 3.5% more for their drinks than they were a year earlier.
Trump’s NATO comments stir up a political storm as Russia keeps quiet
Trump’s comments have thrust the Republican front-runner into the center of a political storm and sent shockwaves throughout the Western military alliance.
Investors in Airbnb arbitrage business allege they were defrauded in scheme promising ‘higher returns than the stock market’
Airbnb’s sprawling marketplace enabled an arbitrage business to illicitly operate and attract investors in the process.
Inflation in December was even lower than first reported, the government says
Revisions to the consumer price index showed that the broad basket of goods and services measured increased 0.2% on the month.
El-Erian, Krugman and other economists have very different opinions on China’s struggling economy
The divide between China bulls and bears is getting louder as the beleaguered economy comes into full focus this year.
Google rebrands Bard AI to Gemini and launches a new app and subscription
Google Bard, a chief competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is now called Gemini, the same name as the suite of AI models that power it.