By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Jorgelina do Rosario ACCRA/LONDON (Reuters) – Ghana has sent a debt restructuring proposal to its official creditors, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, as the West African country battles to escape its worst economic crisis in a generation. The “working proposal” is a crucial first step for …
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(This June 1 story has been corrected after Pixxel changed characterization of investment round to say Google did not lead funding round, but was a participant, in the headline and paragraph 1) BENGALURU (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is part of a $36 million funding round for Bengaluru-based Pixxel, a satellite-image startup, in the first …
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By Ludwig Burger and Maggie Fick (Reuters) -Britain will launch a pilot programme to explore how new weekly weight-loss shots such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy can be given to obese patients outside of limited specialist services even as the drug’s market launch remains unclear. The government’s 40 million pound ($50 million) pilot programme comes after …
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By Joseph Ax and Eric Beech (Reuters) -Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Tuesday launched his 2024 presidential campaign with a withering attack on the Republican front-runner, Donald Trump, calling him a “self-serving mirror hog” and faulting other rivals for avoiding direct confrontation. Christie, 60, was an adviser to Trump’s successful 2016 White House …
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By Steve Gorman and Tyler Clifford (Reuters) -A man who fatally shot two Missouri jail guards in 2000 was executed on Tuesday after the governor and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, even though several jurors in the case petitioned for a reduced sentence. Michael Tisius, 42, was convicted in 2001 of murdering Randolph …
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By Kane Wu, Julie Zhu and M. Sriram HONG KONG (Reuters) -U.S. venture capital giant Sequoia plans to split off its Chinese and Indian/Southeast Asian businesses into two independent firms, it said on Tuesday, as it tries to better navigate economic and geopolitical challenges. The split, which will see the two new firms adopt their …
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By Richard Cowan and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A small group of Republicans in the House of Representatives on Tuesday stopped their leaders’ drive to protect gas-fueled stoves from regulation, raising questions about the party’s ability to advance other legislation this year. The revolt had nothing to do with the kitchen appliances, stemming instead from …
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By Sruthi Shankar, Shristi Achar A and David Carnevali (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed up on Tuesday, helped by some advances in economically sensitive sectors, as investors awaited inflation data and the Federal Reserve’s policy meet next week. Inflation data is expected to show consumer prices cooled slightly on a month-over-month basis in May but …
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By Michael Holden and Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Prince Harry launched a fierce attack on the “vile” press on Tuesday, blaming tabloids for destroying his adolescence and later relationships, as he gave evidence for almost five hours in his lawsuit against a tabloid publisher. As he became the first senior British royal to appear in …
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By Paul Sandle and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – Microsoft’s president met Britain’s finance minister for talks on Tuesday and said he would try to work with regulators to seek UK approval for its $69 billion purchase of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard. British competition authorities blocked the takeover in April in a shock …
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