ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia: Mongolia has launched a rail line that could help boost coal exports to China to 50 million tons a year, the country’s president said, ending a decade-long wait for the crossing.

PARIS: Germany has a shortage of plumbers. The United States needs more postal workers. Australia is lacking engineers. In Canada, hospitals are looking for more nurses.

JOUY, France: Tanker trucks filled with milk collected from across northern France waited in line to unload their precious cargo at one of the country’s biggest yoghurt factories on a recent morning, but this ritual is at risk as the nation considers how to cut energy use.

BEIRUT: Thanks to solar energy, residents of the northern Lebanese village of Toula are finally able to enjoy ice cream again-a treat in a sun-baked country plagued by power cuts.

ADDIS ABABA: Renewed conflict in the north, a crippling drought and stubbornly high inflation: Ethiopians rang in their new year on Sunday with little to celebrate.

WASHINGTON: The US central bank will have to stick to its policy of raising interest rates into next year to ensure that high inflation comes down to the two percent target, a Federal Reserve official said Friday.

KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) won two global awards in the human resources field for the year 2022 from Brandon Hall Group, a company specialized in the evaluation and performance assessment of banks, companies, and institutions around the world.

WASHINGTON: The United States and a group of Asian allies on Friday agreed on a set of negotiating targets, notably on trade and supply chains, as Washington looks to offer an alternative to the economic might of China in the region.

Frankfurt: The European Central Bank announced the largest rate hike in its history Thursday, as runaway energy prices drove eurozone inflation to new heights.