SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Sunday he expected this week's federal budget would help ease the country's stubbornly high inflation, as many Australians continue to grapple with cost-of-living pressures.
"We do expect the budget, as I said, to put downward pressure on inflation rather than upward pressure on inflation," Chalmers said in an Australian Broadcasting Corp television interview aired on Sunday.
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VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuanians vote on Sunday in a presidential election expected to hand a new term to incumbent Gitanas Nauseda, a staunch supporter of Ukraine in its two-year war with Russia, following a campaign focusing on security concerns in the Baltic states.
Polls close at 8 p.m. local time (1700 GMT), with results expected after midnight. If no candidate wins more than 50% - which is likely according to opinion... (continue reading...)
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WILDWOOD, New Jersey (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attacked the Manhattan judge and prosecutor in his New York criminal trial, while hinting at a range of possible economic policies at a sizable rally in New Jersey on Saturday.
Speaking before tens of thousands of supporters on a chilly beach on the Atlantic coastline, the former president disparaged District Attorney Alvin Bragg's appearance... (continue reading...)
By Joan Faus
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalans go to the polls on Sunday in a regional vote which offers the choice of an exiled separatist politician who led a breakaway push in 2017, or an anti-independence government led by the Socialist Party.
Opinion polls forecast a comfortable lead for Socialist candidate Salvador Illa over the hardline separatist Junts and its more moderate rival Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), which... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) -Workers at Apple's store in Towson, Maryland, have voted in favor of authorizing a strike, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (AIM) said in a statement late on Saturday.
The date for work stoppage has yet to be decided, according to the union, which represents Apple's retail store workers in Maryland.
"The issues at the forefront of this action include concerns over work-life balance, unpredictable... (continue reading...)
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