Author: Press Room
High energy prices, bureaucracy, and taxes are said to be key factors behind the increase in filings The number of bankruptcies in Germany is alarmingly high and continues to grow, the country’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), has warned. It urged Berlin on Monday to take urgent measures to remedy the situation and tackle high energy prices.The statement came as the government statistical office published new figures on bankruptcy requests dating back to October 2025. According to its data, the number of corporate requests grew by almost 5% year-on-year and reached 2,108 at the time.The transport and storage sectors…
With its current contract running out in June, Hollywood actors union leader Duncan Crabtree-Ireland warned that the union has no problem going back on strike if the studios and streaming services don’t meet their demands. Crabtree-Ireland, the National Executive Director of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), spoke to the issues on January 8 and delivered two somewhat contradictory messages, Deadline reported. On one hand, he said that negotiations are starting early ahead of the June 30 contract expiration date and are already promising, but on the other hand, he said they will still go…
Chipotle pointed out that billionaire investor Bill Ackman is not affiliated with the company after a viral social media post falsely claimed he owned the restaurant chain and called for a boycott over his donation to a legal defense fund for an ICE agent involved in the fatal shooting in Minneapolis. “Bill Ackman is not affiliated with Chipotle,” the company posted on Threads in response to a post that urged, “Don’t eat at Chipotle. The guy who owns it just gave $10000 to the man who killed Renee Good.” Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, disclosed a 9.9 percent…
An east Fort Worth, Texas, homeowner shot an alleged burglar “to death” Monday morning, according to the Forth Worth Star-Telegram. The homeowner allegedly heard the suspect trying to make entry into a garage and confronted him around 6:00 a.m., shooting at him. The suspect then “walked or ran from the house, collapsed and died on the sidewalk at the intersection of Avenue L and Bishop Street.” Dallas Crime Breaking News noted that police discovered the alleged burglar had “a gunshot wound to the torso.” WFAA pointed out that the homeowner indicated the alleged burglar came at him “aggressively” after being confronted, and…
The 57-year-old man is in critical condition after being mobbed outside Rome’s biggest railway station Two migrants have been arrested after an Italian Ministry of Enterprises official was critically injured in a violent group assault in central Rome, according to ANSA news agency.The incident occurred just outside of Termini Station, Rome’s largest railway hub, late Sunday, ANSA reported on Monday. Just hours later, a 23-year-old courier of Tunisian origin was attacked in the same area, it said.Security footage caught a group of people approaching the 57-year-old ministry official and repeatedly striking him in the head before fleeing, according to the…
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Communist Party’s state propaganda arms railed on Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s imposition of a 25-percent tariff on countries that do business with Iran. The president announced the policy after two weeks of protests in the country calling for an end to the brutal Islamist regime, which has responded with widespread violence that, some estimates suggest, has killed as many as 3,000 people. The “supreme leader” of Iran, 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has since said in public remarks that it is the democratically elected Trump administration, and not his regime, that is on the…
President Donald Trump’s State Department is freezing all visa processing from 75 countries that the agency has discovered produce waves of welfare-dependent migrants to the United States. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that such visa processing would be frozen to avoid more welfare-dependent migration to the U.S. “The State Department will pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates,” the State Department wrote in a statement. “The freeze will remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people.”…
Woke country music star Maren Morris claims that being public about her political views in the country music industry has affected her mental health and financial standing, adding that she has “lost a lot of fans” over it. In a lengthy video posted to her TikTok account on Friday, Morris ranted about how her entire music career has existed under the “reign” of President Donald Trump, and how “no one is very friendly” after she has been outspoken about her views due to the country music industry being “very politicized.” The “My Church” singer noted that her first album came out…
The incident comes despite a US-brokered ceasefire aimed at ending cross-border clashes between the IDF and Hezbollah Israeli tanks have targeted an area with Spanish UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, the mission has said, warning that such attacks are becoming “disturbingly common.”The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said two Merkava tanks were observed on Monday moving from an Israeli army position inside Lebanese territory further into Lebanon. Peacekeepers requested that the tanks halt their activity, but one of them later fired three shells, two of which landed “approximately 150 meters away from the peacekeeping force.”Earlier today, UNIFIL peacekeepers observed…
The Danish government has reportedly deployed military “reinforcements” to Greenland ahead of a high-stakes White House meeting to discuss the future of the territory on Wednesday. According to a report from public broadcaster Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), the Kingdom of Denmark is sending military equipment and advance troops to Greenland in preparation for a larger deployment of Danish forces to the island. However, the broadcaster questioned how large a deployment Copenhagen will be able to manage in Greenland, given that many of its forces, particularly soldiers in the Danish Army, have already been committed to other theatres, such as in…