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... 

One of France’s top courts has thrown out a ban on genetically modified corn, which had been in place since March 2012, leaving the door open for Monsanto’s GMO seed to be introduced into the country’s farmland. The decision by the top administrative court on Thursday argued that the moratorium on the GMO MON810 corn, one of two types of genetically altered crops approved by the European Union,...