Tag: #Swedish

  • Truckmaker Volvo reports 23% drop in profit

    Truckmaker Volvo reports 23% drop in profit

    Stockholm, Oct 16 (AFP/APP):Swedish truckmaker Volvo, one of the world’s largest, on Friday reported at 23 percent drop in its third quarter net profit but said the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was easing. Net profit for the period came in at 5.72 billion Swedish kronor ($646 million, 550 million euros), compared to 7.46 billion…

  • Trump ‘so extreme’ on climate, Greta Thunberg tells AFP

    Hampton, United States, Nov 13 (AFP/APP): Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg said Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s climate change denialism was “so extreme” that it had helped galvanize the movement to halt long term planetary warming. She spoke in an interview with AFP on the eve of her departure from North America where she…