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Two pilots killed in Phantom F-4 jet crash during Greek air force annual show

The annual Athens Flying Week air show was thrown into mourning on Saturday after a twin-seat McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter jet lost…

11 hours ago • My Europe
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Paris drops Mercator projection: France now looks smaller on world maps

For centuries, the world map that shaped European navigation, colonial ambition, and classroom geography has quietly inflated the visual weight of northern

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Shein’s stock market debut was a major flop. Does it signal the death of ultra-fast fashion?

Usagevpn.com – When Shein’s stock market debut finally arrived on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 1 September, the price tag told a story no investor wanted to hear. The Singapore-headquartered fast-fashion platform was valued at roughly $27 billion (about €23.24 billion) — a figure that still dwarfs most retailers but represents a 70 per cent write-down from the nearly $100 billion (€86 billion) private-market peak recorded in 2022. The company had initially courted London and New York listings, yet supply-chain scrutiny and intensifying environmental criticism pushed it toward Asia’s trading floor instead.

The discount is not a timing anomaly. It signals a structural repricing of how capital markets treat outsourced manufacturing risk. For over a decade, ultra-fast fashion scaled by dispersing production across thousands of loosely regulated sub-contractors, keeping shelf prices below what any conventional retailer could sustain while distancing liability from the brand’s boardroom. Institutional investors now read…

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Fitch upgrades Portugal’s rating to A+ and says outlook is “stable”

Portugal's sovereign credit profile has climbed back to the upper tier of investment-grade territory, as ratings agency Fitch moved the…

18 hours ago • Business

‘Protest’ at Port of Dover causes delays to ferry services as masked men descend on the town

A protest at Port of Dover threw the town's ferry timetable into disarray on Saturday morning, as dozens of men…

20 hours ago • My Europe

Three killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, health ministry says

Lebanon's overnight hours brought fresh bloodshed as Israeli warplanes struck multiple sites in the country's southern and eastern provinces, killing…

22 hours ago • Uncategorized

At least two killed and 81 injured after explosions at Bolivian army base

Two powerful explosions tore through a Bolivian military depot on Friday, killing at least two personnel and sending 81 others…

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