By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil prices were little changed on Thursday but posted a third weekly gain as markets weighed further production cuts targeted by OPEC+ and falling U.S. oil inventories against fears about the global economic outlook. Brent crude settled up 13 cents, or 0.2%, at $85.12 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate U.S. …
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By Michel Rose and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Xi Jinping expressed willingness to speak to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the head of the EU said on Thursday, after French President Emmanuel Macron urged Beijing to talk sense to Russia over the war in Ukraine. In closely watched talks, European Union chief Ursula von der …
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By Antony Paone, Sarah Meyssonnier and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -Clashes erupted in Paris next to a Left Bank brasserie favoured by French President Emmanuel Macron as protesters torched garbage cans and smashed two banks during the eleventh day of nationwide demonstrations against pension reform. The bistro La Rotonde, whose awning was set alight as …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt DALTON, Georgia (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday took the Biden administration’s jobs agenda to a right-wing Georgia congressional district represented by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, an avid supporter of former President Donald Trump. Harris, a Democrat, went to the small town of Dalton to talk about the growing solar …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Amazon and Microsoft, the two dominant cloud providers, face an antitrust investigation in Britain after the communications regulator said some aspects of the market, including fees to switch supplier, were a cause for concern. Ofcom, which started looking into cloud services last year, said it was particularly worried about the practices of Amazon …
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By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, but annual revisions to the data showed applications were higher this year than initially thought, further evidence that the labor market was slowing. With Thursday’s weekly jobless claims report, the Labor Department updated the methodology used …
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By Sruthi Shankar and Shristi Achar A (Reuters) -UK’s blue-chip index rose on Thursday, gaining for a third consecutive week, as a rally in commodity stocks and signs of resilience in the domestic economy outweighed concerns about a U.S. economic slowdown. The FTSE 100 rose 1.0%, hitting its highest level in over three weeks and …
By Shivangi Acharya NEW DELHI (Reuters) – British defence companies are planning to boost tie ups or make new investments in India, amid broader efforts to diversify their supply chains, an industry body said on Thursday. Britain has sought to deepen economic, defence and security ties with India, committing to closer links with the Indo-Pacific …
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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Over 90% of its residents have fled, much of it lies in ruins, tens of thousands have been killed, and its strategic importance has been played down by the Pentagon and NATO chiefs. Yet Russia and Ukraine are still battling for the small city of Bakhmut. After eight months …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A Planned Parenthood affiliate and two doctors on Wednesday filed a lawsuit seeking to block Idaho authorities from punishing healthcare providers for referring patients to get abortions in other states. Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador, a Republican, said in a legal opinion last week that the state’s near-total abortion ban, enacted …
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