Ikea will hike its prices by an average of nine percent next year due to ongoing supply and transportation disruptions, the company that operates most of the Swedish furniture giant’s stores said. Thursday’s announcement comes as pandemic-fuelled shortages and shipping challenges ramp up inflation and pinch economies globally, with consumers increasingly feeling the bite. “Like …
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A mix of drought in Canada’s prairies and flooding on its Pacific coast have brought about crop production and shipping woes now leading to international shortages of fries and mustard. In Japan, for example, McDonald’s has been forced to ration fries as the British Columbia floods squeezed potato imports, while mustard producers in France are …
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The resumption of holiday travel coupled with the rapidly spreading Omicron variant left Americans scrambling Wednesday to find at-home Covid tests, leading multiple major distributors to limit the number of kits per customer. Amazon, as well as vendors on its platform, began limiting the number of tests per person Wednesday. National pharmaceutical chains CVS and …
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The UK on Sunday raised its Covid Alert Level due to the “rapid increase” in cases of the Omicron variant, as the government announced new measures to control its spread. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, under pressure because of claims he and staff flouted Covid restrictions last Christmas, was due to make an address to the …
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Next week’s World Trade Organization ministerial conference, the global trade body’s biggest gathering in four years, was postponed at the last minute Friday due to the new Omicron Covid-19 variant. The WTO hoped the four-day gathering in Geneva would breathe new life into the crippled organisation, which has been stuck for years trying to make …
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Even the wildest parts of the Amazon untouched by humanity are being impacted by climate change, according to new research. Hotter, drier conditions over the past four decades are decreasing the body size of the rainforest’s birds while increasing their wingspans, a study published in the journal Science Advances said Friday. The changes are thought …
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Telecom giants AT&T and Verizon agreed to push back deployment of a new 5G frequency band to allow time to address air safety concerns, US regulators said Thursday. The two companies will “voluntarily pause” the commercial rollout “to further assess any impact on aviation safety technologies,” the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Communications Commission …
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FILE PHOTO: Dark clouds hang over the financial district as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Frankfurt, Germany, March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo April 15, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – The German economy probably shrank by 1.8% in the first quarter because of COVID-19 restrictions, leading economic institutes said on Thursday as …
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The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) on April 14 canceled its annual dinner over concerns about the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. “We have worked through any number of scenarios over the last several months but to put it plainly: while improving rapidly, the COVID-19 landscape is …
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WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 24: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) signals an aide as Andy Ngo, Editor-at-Large of The Post Millennial, testifies virtually during a House Judiciary subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security hearing, on Capitol Hill on February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 11:20 AM PT – …
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