Spain is boosting generation from costlier gas-fired power plants in the wake of a nationwide blackout that raised concerns ...

She is a library professional, transcriptionist, editor, and fact-checker. Pixdeluxe / Getty Images The highest and lowest unemployment rates in the world vary dramatically, even among the world's ...

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An abrupt loss of power generation at a substation in Granada, followed by failures seconds later in Badajoz and Seville, ...

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OTTAWA: Canada's unemployment rate rose to 6.9 per cent in April, the highest since November, as US tariffs started to hit Canada's export-dependent economy in earnest, data showed on Friday. The high ...

OTTAWA - Canada’s labour market was showing cracks in April as the early impacts of the tariff dispute with the United States started to appear in economic data. Economists expect that weakness ...

Marie, Ont., Friday, April 25, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick The national unemployment rate ticked up to 6.9 per cent in April as the manufacturing sector started to strain under the weight ...

OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in April. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities.

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