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Barcelona midfielder Franck Kessie is reportedly starting to feel ‘cheated’ by his lack of game time at his new club. According to El Nacional, the 25-year-old is becoming increasingly frustrated with manager Xavi Hernandez due to the situation. Kessie moved to Barcelona in the summer on a free transfer after leaving AC Milan. He attracted interest from several of Europe’s biggest clubs but chose the Blaugrana. The Ivorian played 224 times for Milan across five seasons and helped them win their first Serie A title in a decade last season. He was considered one of the hottest free agents of the summer and joined the…

Russia has steadily cut gas supplies to Europe European governments fork out billions to help businesses EU’s von der Leyen says aid so far ‘will not be enough’ The European Union’s executive outlined plans on Wednesday to raise more than $140 billion from energy firms to help shield households and businesses from soaring prices that threaten economic recession and insolvencies. European gas and power prices have rocketed this year as Russia cut fuel exports to retaliate for Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, leaving many struggling to pay bills and utilities grappling with a liquidity crunch. The European Central…

The White House released new details on Wednesday on how it plans to invest more than $2 billion in the U.S. biotechnology sector as it hosts a meeting of government leaders to discuss the emerging industry. President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order that launched a national biotechnology and bio-manufacturing initiative, and on Wednesday the White House will hold a summit with top government officials and department heads to discuss plans on how to administer the order and allocate the money. The executive order allows the federal government to direct funding for the use of microbes and other…

Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) on Wednesday unveiled buybacks worth billions of dollars as they joined a rush of U.S. companies seeking to avoid a new tax on such repurchases. The $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act imposes a 1% tax on buybacks and a minimum 15% tax on corporations from next year. Comcast doubled its share buyback authorization to $20 billion after increasing it to $10 billion in January, while J&J announced a repurchase program of up to $5 billion. Wireless carrier T-Mobile US Inc , seeds and pesticides company Corteva Inc (CTVA.N) and coffee chain Starbucks (SBUX.O), as well as a score of…

President Joe Biden on Wednesday will announce the approval of the first $900 million in U.S. funding to build EV charging stations in 35 states as part of a $1 trillion infrastructure law approved in November, the White House said. Congress approved nearly $5 billion over five years to give grants to states to build thousands of electric vehicle charging stations. At an appearance at the Detroit auto show, Biden will also announce that U.S. government purchases of EVs have risen dramatically. In 2020, less than 1% of new federal acquisitions were electric, which more than doubled in 2021 and…

The average interest rate on the most popular U.S. home loan rose above 6% for the first time since 2008 and is now more than double the level it was one year ago, Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) data showed on Wednesday. Rising mortgage rates are increasingly weighing on the interest-rate sensitive housing sector as the Federal Reserve pushes on with aggressively lifting borrowing costs in order to tame high inflation. The central bank has raised its benchmark overnight lending rate by 225 basis points since March. Expectations for Fed tightening have led to a surge in Treasury yields since the…

Google suffered one of its biggest setbacks on Wednesday when a top European court fined it 4.125 billion euros ($4.13 billion) for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals, offering a precedent for other regulators to ratchet up pressure. The unit of U.S. tech giant Alphabet (GOOGL.O) had challenged an earlier ruling, but the decision was broadly upheld by the Europe’s second-highest court in Wednesday’s ruling and the fine was reduced only modestly from 4.34 billion euros. It is a record fine for an antitrust violation. The EU antitrust enforcer has imposed a total of 8.25 billion euros in antitrust…

President Muhammadu Buhari says he received with immense sadness news of the passing of Queen Elizabeth ll of the United Kingdom. The Nigerian leader made his feelings known in a condolence message issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Thursday in Abuja. He said: ”My family and I, and the more than 200 million Nigerians have learned with immense sadness of the passing of the Queen and the end of her unique and wonderful 70-year reign. ”Her late Majesty was the only British Sovereign known to 90 per cent of our population. “Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with…

King Charles III on Friday readied to address his mourning subjects on the first full day of his new reign as Britain and the world commemorated the extraordinary life of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. At 73, Charles is the oldest monarch yet to ascend the throne of the United Kingdom, following the death of his “cherished” mother at her Scottish estate of Balmoral on Thursday. He was due to return to London from Balmoral, where the 96-year-old queen died “peacefully” after a year-long period of ill-health and decline, at the culmination of a record-breaking reign of 70 years.…

As queen, Elizabeth II’s family life was far from traditional — she was often away for long stretches, was frequently occupied by work and had at times complicated relationships with her four children. She was 22 and still a princess when her eldest son and heir apparent, Charles, was born, and 24 when Princess Anne came along. But she sometimes left them for months at a time to join her husband Prince Philip, a naval officer stationed in Malta, or to tour with him abroad. The young children stayed at home with their nannies and governesses, just as she had…