Paris: McDonald’s will pay 1.25 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in France to avoid a legal case over tax evasion between 2009 and 2020, under an agreement approved Thursday by a Paris court.

Rome: Italian energy giant Eni said it will receive only 65 percent of the gas requested Thursday from Gazprom, due to problems at the Russian company’s Portovaya compression station

GOFFSTOWN, New Hampshire: Tony Hook flipped through cell phone pictures of finished work by his New Hampshire shop, explaining how one customer wanted mementos of major life events: A gun to mark each of his children’s births.

GENEVA: Talks at the World Trade Organization were going deep into overtime on Thursday with countries trying to thrash out an over-arching deal encompassing food security, fishing and combating COVID-19.

WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve announced the most aggressive interest rate increase in nearly 30 years on Wednesday, and said it is prepared to do so again next month in an all-out battle to drive down surging inflation.

Geneva: Swiss airspace reopened Wednesday morning after a computer glitch grounded flights across the Alpine nation for several hours, officials said.

Rome: Russia’s Gazprom told Eni it would cut its gas supply by around 15 percent for Wednesday, the Italian energy giant said, adding that no reason was given

PARIS: By Joseph Boyle and Corentin Dautreppe with Glenn Chapman in San Francisco, Thomas Urbain in New York and Cat Barton in Seoul Prathamesh Jathar is one of many brightly dressed riders zipping through the streets of Berlin, dropping off groceries just minutes after the orders come in.

BEIJING: China’s factory output and retail sales remained weak in May, official data showed Wednesday, with tepid demand and lingering COVID restrictions putting a damper on growth in the world’s second-largest economy.