"It's more comfortable packing a hair dryer or a computer in a box than heaving a 50-pound suitcase crawling into the fuselage of an airplane", said Thomas Richter, chief of the German ground-handling employers' association ABL.

Phillips, 57, a freelance reporter, was doing research for a book on the trip with Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, a former head of isolated and recently contacted tribes at federal indigenous affairs agency Funai.



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The summer when air travel was supposed to return to normal after a two-year pandemic vacuum is in danger of becoming the summer when the high-volume, low-cost air travel model broke down - at least in Europe's sprawling integrated market.

The projected depletion date for Medicare_s trust fund for inpatient hospital care moved back two years to 2028 from last year_s forecast of 2026. The annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report released Thursday states that Social Security_s trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2035, instead of last year_s estimation of 2034.

Because today, a Mail investigation reveals what happened after Black Friday last year, proving yet again that the number of genuine one-off deals worth sharpening your elbows for are, in truth, scarce.

The group had been adding a steady 432,000 barrels per day each month to gradually restore production cuts from 2020. The decision Thursday steps up the pace by the alliance, known as OPEC+, in restoring cuts made during the worst of the pandemic recession. LONDON (AP) - The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing countries including Russia will raise production by 648,000 barrels per day in July and August, Classical Books offering modest relief for a global economy suffering from soaring energy prices and the resulting inflation.







The company said in a WeChat post that the bookstore will stop operating on June 30, 2023. It says customers in China will not be able to buy new e-books after that day and won_t be able to download Classical Books they_ve already purchased after a year later. The e-commerce giant_s pullback comes as foreign technology firms have been pulling out or downsizing their operations in mainland China as a strict data privacy law specifying how companies collect and store data takes effect.

Shock at their fate has echoed across Brazil and around the world, highlighting the overhaul of indigenous agency Funai under President Jair Bolsonaro, along with a rising tide of violence and criminal incursions on native lands.

Analysts say the labour squeeze may raise costs beyond the summer, but it is too early to tell whether the industry must step back from the pre-pandemic model of ever-rising volumes and cost-cutting, which generated new routes and kept fares low.

And the pay available to them - $15 or $16 an hour for entry-level work - is drawing some back into the job market. Teenage employment has already topped pre-pandemic levels even though the overall job market still hasn_t.



Djeffal offers a taste of what airports and airlines across Europe are up against as they race to hire thousands to cope with resurgent demand, dubbed "revenge travel" as people seek to make up for vacations lost during the pandemic.



The S&P 500 rose 1.8%. The benchmark index has risen 7.1% since coming to the edge of a bear market two weeks ago. Trading has been choppy in recent days as investors remain worried about inflation and the interest rate increases the Federal Reserve is using to fight it. Technology stocks were among the winners as Microsoft erased an early loss.

By contrast, the average rate stood at 2.99% a year ago. Higher borrowing rates appear to be slowing the housing market, a crucial sector of the economy.
In April, sales of both existing homes and new homes showed signs of faltering, worsened by sharply higher home prices and a shrunken supply of available properties. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate ticked down to 5.09% from 5.1% last week.

The region provides a contrast between the need to phase out fossil fuels to address climate change and the world_s growing demand for natural gas. Yet these same storm-prone neighborhoods are near a buildout of new plants that supercool natural gas for export.

The Civil Police said the suspects placed sink sandbags before sinking the speedboat 65 feet deep under and 98 feet to the right of the Itacoai River shore in the Amazon rainforest near the northern town of Cachoeira.

The four-week average for claims, which evens out some of the weekly volatility, dipped by 500 from the previous week to 206,500. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 11,000 to 200,000 for the week ending May 28, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time applications generally track the number of layoffs.