Indian IT giant Infosys on Wednesday increased the lower end of its annual growth forecast for the current fiscal year after reporting better-than-expected results for the June quarter. The Bengaluru-headquartered firm also reported a 8.6 on-year increase in net profit to hit 69.2 billion rupees ($801 million) for the April-June quarter.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday "the devil is always in the details" as she spoke of a budding South America trade deal that France has vowed to block at all costs. But it "won't proceed without political agreement" among the bloc's member states, one official in von der Leyen's entourage told AFP. Von der Leyen was to meet Sunday with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday defended France's resistance to a much-touted trade deal between the European Union and South American countries in talks with his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei in Buenos Aires.
Suffocating under a mountain of debt to China, communist Laos is struggling to tame rampant inflation, with food prices rising so sharply that a growing number of households are resorting to foraging. A growing number of households are so desperate for food that they are now having to forage to supplement their diets, according to a World Bank household survey earlier this year.
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