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Europe's drive to build a homegrown electric vehicle battery industry is hitting roadblocks as investors shy away from giving startups sufficient funding to challenge the Asian companies that dominate the market.

EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said on Tuesday during a visit to Kyiv that the European Union, together with partners, was exploring ways to increase help for Ukraine's energy sector.

Nationalist Meloni has vowed to put Italy's interests first, and the trip will be closely watched amid fears of turbulent relations ahead between the populist government in Rome and the bloc's powerhouses.

Bahrain is about 70% Muslim and, unlike Saudi Arabia, allows its small community of about 160,000 Catholics - made up mostly of foreign workers - to practice their faith publicly in two churches.

With Syria the source of 80 percent of the world's supply, according to security services, the trade is at least worth three times its entire national budget.

Iran is just starting a four-year term on the commission, which meets annually every March and aims to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.

Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to build on the achievement of his last term in office, the Abraham Accords with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which opened the way for a possible normalization of relations with other Arab countries.

The outgoing prime minister met Queen Margrethe to hand in her resignation at 11:00 am (1000 GMT), which formally set the ball rolling for her to start negotiations with other party leaders on the makeup of the new government.

The Russians have been firing salvos from the south end of the road ever since being routed and retreating from the village in the first month of the war in March.

The latest moves have brought total rate hikes in 2022 from G10 central banks to 2,050 bps.

Unemployment in New Zealand was sitting at 3.3% in the third quarter, while an increase in the number of people looking for work saw employment surge 1.3%.

A recent survey by the Ifo think-tank found that nearly half of German industrial firms now rely on significant inputs from China.

Euro-zone manufacturing activity this month hit its weakest level since May 2020, signaling Europe was heading for a recession.

The Ukrainians launched a lightning counteroffensive in September that cleared the Russians out of lands east of the 1.4-million-strong northern city of Kharkiv.

The two firms said in a joint statement that they would work together to develop Lotte's online business in South Korea.

Around 40,000 people have made the dangerous crossing across the Channel from mainland Europe so far this year, according to U.K. government figures.

Ukraine now has 20,000 of the little white dishes hidden away across the war zone.

Aramco's net income rose to $42.4 billion for the three months to Sept. 30 from $30.4 billion a year earlier, it said in a regulatory filing.

For the foreseeable future, macroeconomics remain the driver of a market that remains highly speculative in nature.

Indian army, navy and national disaster response teams continued search operations as locals gathered on the banks of the river near the twisted remains of the bridge.

The Thursday-to-Sunday visit -- the 39th international trip of Francis' papacy -- comes three years after his historic trip to the United Arab Emirates in 2019.

While many candidates have cited security as a concern, none have campaigned on a platform of reviving moribund peace talks with the Palestinians.

China is the last major economy wedded to a zero-Covid policy, with authorities brandishing snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines in an effort to stamp out emerging outbreaks.

Iran on Monday urged countries not to attend a U.S.-organized meeting at the United Nations on protests in Iran sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody, according to a letter seen by Reuters that accused Washington of politicizing human rights.

Wheat markets have been very sensitive to developments in Moscow's eight-month-old invasion of Ukraine, as both countries are among the world's largest wheat exporters.

The election comes in a year that has seen violence flare in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with near-daily clashes in the occupied West Bank all summer.

The Gap shipments included everything from "knitted children's socks" and "children's pajamas" to "textile blouses for women" and "textile shorts for men."

The statement further said that "the coordinates of movement of one of the sea drones indicate the starting point in the sea area of the 'grain corridor' security zone in the Black Sea."

Russia on Saturday suspended participation in the U.N. grain deal for an "indefinite term", after what it said was a major Ukrainian drone attack on its Black Sea fleet in Crimea.