European drivers have discovered plug-in hybrid gas-electric cars (PHEVs), extending the market life of internal combustion engines and validating Toyota’s strategic decision years ago to focus on hybrids instead of all-electric cars (EVs).
Category: 9 December 2025
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INDIA’S OIL DEMAND WILL GROW FASTER THAN CHINA’S IN 2026
Next year, for the first time, India’s growth in oil consumption will be greater than China’s, chief economist Saad Rahim at commodities trader Trafigura Group told the Financial Times Asia Commodities Summit last week.
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INDIA’S SLUGGISH STOCK MARKET LAGS OTHERS IN ASIA
India’s stock market is performing less well than the exchanges of other emerging economies and doing so by the widest margin this century, the Financial Times reported.
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TRUMP SEES MORE PROBLEMS AT POLLS AS CONCERNS OVER THE ECONOMY MOUNT
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has seen a steady decline in recent weeks as more Americans express concerns over the direction of the economy.
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DOLLAR STORES ARE RAKING IN THE DOLLARS
Dollar stores in the U.S. are doing a booming business as shoppers from all income levels seek to make their budgets go further, the Financial Times reported.
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‘KILL THEM ALL’
As we learn more about the events on Sept. 2, 2025, in international waters 1,500 miles from the United States, the behavior of the United States military becomes more legally troubling than at first blush.
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TRUMP’S GROWING PARDON PROBLEM
President Donald Trump risks dividing his coalition over what critics have called a cavalier approach to pardoning convicted criminals – all while trying to bill himself as a law-and-order president.
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FIFA ‘PEACE PRIZE’ WINNER TRUMP CONTINUES KILLING SPREE
President Donald Trump, hot off winning the first-ever FIFA peace award, made sure to continue his killing campaign in Somalia, striking the country 109 times this year, which AntiWar.com said is an “unprecedented number.”
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AI STOCK MARKET FRENZY IS ALIVE AND WELL IN CHINA
At its debut last week on Shanghai’s stock market, Moore Threads—a maker of graphics processing units for artificial intelligence (AI) that is often referred to as “China’s Nvidia”—saw its share price soar 400 percent.
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BEN & JERRY’S CO-FOUNDER COHEN TOLD TO HAND OVER COMPANY TO ‘NEW GENERATION’ AFTER CRITICISM OF ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE IN GAZA
Ben Cohen, a co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was told that it is time to hand over control of the company to a new generation after his recent criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.