By Phil Stewart KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced $400 million in new arms for Ukraine on Monday during a visit to Kyiv just two weeks ahead of a U.S. presidential election that is casting uncertainty over the future of Western support. Austin’s trip, his fourth and likely final visit as President Joe …
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By Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Monday, recouping some of last week’s more than 7% decline on worries about demand in China, the world’s top oil importer, and easing concerns about potential supply disruptions in the Middle East. Brent crude futures were up $1.10, or 1.51%, at $74.16 a barrel at …
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ROME (Reuters) – Births in Italy are heading for a new record low in 2024, national statistical bureau ISTAT said on Monday, marking a 16th consecutive annual decline and the lowest number since Italian unification in 1861. Italy’s ever-falling birth rate is considered a national emergency, but despite successive governments pledging to make it a …
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By Sethuraman N R (Reuters) – India is planning to establish a coal exchange which will aim to stabilize prices of the fuel and improve its availability, the country’s coal minister G. Kishan Reddy said at an industry event on Monday. “Last week we took a briefing on setting up coal exchange,” Minister added but …
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MAPUTO (Reuters) -Mozambique police on Monday fired teargas and bullets at protesters in the capital Maputo who had gathered at the scene where two opposition party figures were shot dead on Saturday after a disputed election. A Reuters witness saw some police officers firing handguns while dispersing the crowd. Adriano Nuvunga, director of Mozambique’s Centre …
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ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria has blocked the sale of Shell’s entire onshore and shallow-water oil and gas assets in the Niger Delta, the country’s upstream regulator said on Monday, roughly 10 months after the deal was announced. In a speech at an event in the capital Abuja, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) CEO Gbenga Komolafe …
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By Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) – Aggregate demand in India is likely to shrug off the temporary slowdown in momentum seen in the second quarter as festive demand picks up pace and consumer confidence improves, the central bank said on Monday. “Rural demand is expected to get a boost from the improved agricultural outlook. Private …
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By Jesús Aguado and Saeed Azhar MADRID/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Spain’s Santander launched its digital bank in the United States on Monday, which will help it to fund over $30 billion of auto lending assets and broaden its retail business in the country, U.S. CEO Tim Wennes told Reuters. The euro zone’s third-biggest lender by …
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By Abhijith Ganapavaram and Allison Lampert (Reuters) -Boeing is expected to book more than $1 billion in wage-related expenses from its proposed labor contract, analysts said, although its shares rose 3% on Monday on hopes of an end to a crippling strike. About 33,000 workers will vote on the contract proposal on Wednesday after a …
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By Elena Fabrichnaya MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian central bank is expected to hike the key interest rate by 100 basis points (bps) to 20%, the same level as at the start of what Russia calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, according to a majority of analysts polled by Reuters. Twenty-five analysts out of …
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