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  • Electric car demand set to stall in Europe’s ‘valley of death’

    By Victoria Waldersee and Nick Carey BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) -After years of accelerating growth, Europe’s electric car sales appear to be entering a go-slow zone as drivers wait for better, cheaper models that are two to three years down the road. Fully-electric sales in Europe were up 47% in the first nine months of 2023, but […]

  • Risk of volcanic eruption in Iceland remains high

    COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Seismic activity in southwestern Iceland decreased in size and intensity on Monday, but the risk of a volcanic eruption remained significant, authorities said, after earthquakes and evidence of magma spreading underground in recent weeks. Almost 4,000 people were evacuated over the weekend as authorities feared that molten rock would rise to the surface […]

  • Electric car demand set to stall in Europe’s ‘valley of death’

    By Victoria Waldersee and Nick Carey BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) -After years of accelerating growth, Europe’s electric car sales appear to be entering a go-slow zone as drivers wait for better, cheaper models that are two to three years down the road. Fully-electric sales in Europe were up 47% in the first nine months of 2023, but […]

  • Risk of volcanic eruption in Iceland remains high

    COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Seismic activity in southwestern Iceland decreased in size and intensity on Monday, but the risk of a volcanic eruption remained significant, authorities said, after earthquakes and evidence of magma spreading underground in recent weeks. Almost 4,000 people were evacuated over the weekend as authorities feared that molten rock would rise to the surface […]

  • Electric car demand set to stall in Europe’s ‘valley of death’

    By Victoria Waldersee and Nick Carey BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) -After years of accelerating growth, Europe’s electric car sales appear to be entering a go-slow zone as drivers wait for better, cheaper models that are two to three years down the road. Fully-electric sales in Europe were up 47% in the first nine months of 2023, but […]

  • Risk of volcanic eruption in Iceland remains high

    COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Seismic activity in southwestern Iceland decreased in size and intensity on Monday, but the risk of a volcanic eruption remained significant, authorities said, after earthquakes and evidence of magma spreading underground in recent weeks. Almost 4,000 people were evacuated over the weekend as authorities feared that molten rock would rise to the surface […]

  • Electric car demand set to stall in Europe’s ‘valley of death’

    By Victoria Waldersee and Nick Carey BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) -After years of accelerating growth, Europe’s electric car sales appear to be entering a go-slow zone as drivers wait for better, cheaper models that are two to three years down the road. Fully-electric sales in Europe were up 47% in the first nine months of 2023, but […]

  • Israel says it raised $8 billion of debt since start of war with Hamas

    By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has raised about 30 billion shekels ($7.8 billion) in debt since the start of the war with Hamas militants, the Finance Ministry said on Monday. Slightly more than half of that – 16 billion shekels – was dollar-denominated debt raised in issuances in international markets, it said. The […]

  • Israel says it raised $8 billion of debt since start of war with Hamas

    By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has raised about 30 billion shekels ($7.8 billion) in debt since the start of the war with Hamas militants, the Finance Ministry said on Monday. Slightly more than half of that – 16 billion shekels – was dollar-denominated debt raised in issuances in international markets, it said. The […]

  • Israel says it raised $8 billion of debt since start of war with Hamas

    By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has raised about 30 billion shekels ($7.8 billion) in debt since the start of the war with Hamas militants, the Finance Ministry said on Monday. Slightly more than half of that – 16 billion shekels – was dollar-denominated debt raised in issuances in international markets, it said. The […]

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