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Visiting Mercedes-Benz HPE
"My colleagues and I are acutely aware that high inflation imposes significant hardship as it erodes purchasing power," US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says in Washington. SOUNDBITE
"I still have more high probability for 2024 to break the record," explains the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) chief of climate monitoring, Omar Baddour, during a presentation of the annual State of the Climate report. "January was the warmest January on record (...) we have already signs of going through a very warm year in 2024," he adds. SOUNDBITE
Electrification continues at BMW Group Plant Leipzig: Four months after launching production of the combustion-engined MINI Countryman, the all-electric version is now rolling off the lines at Leipzig as well. After phasing out production of the BMW i3, the birthplace of electric mobility at the BMW Group has welcomed another fully electric car to its range. It now manufactures four models with three drive types by two brands, all on a single production line: the BMW 1 Series, the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer (including the plug-in hybrid version), the BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe and the MINI Countryman in both its fully electric and combustion-powered versions.The MINI Countryman Electric represents a major step in the MINI brand’s transition to full electrification by 2030 and combines an electrified go-kart feel with zero local emissions mobility. It comes in two fully electric variants: the Countryman E and the more powerful all-wheel Countryman SE ALL4.
Hundreds of people in the southern Nigerian city of Lagos protest the high cost of living in the country as part of a nationwide call to demonstrate by the Nigerian workers union. IMAGES
Spanish firefighters battle a huge blaze raging through a multistorey residential block in the eastern port city of Valencia, with flames and black smoke engulfing the building. Spain's emergency services say the fire started on the fourth floor and has rapidly spread since. IMAGES