General Electric (GE) has announced that it is planning to cut up to 6,500 jobs in Europe and in those energy units it acquired from France’s Alstom last year. “The restructuring plan will touch several European countries and impact potentially 6,500 jobs out of 35,000,” a GE spokesman told AFP on Wednesday, confirming an earlier report in the L’Est Republicain newspaper. According... 

Protesters in several cities across the United States have gathered on tax day to demand an end to US-led wars abroad which have put a heavy burden on taxpayers. Protesters were especially angry after hearing that some of America’s biggest corporations like General Electric are paying no taxes this year, a Press TV correspondent in Washington reported on Friday. They were also angry with President...