By Noah Browning LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices were steady on Thursday as looming sanctions on Russian oil products added uncertainty over supply but the dollar lost value in a boost to the oil trade. Brent crude futures fell 18 cents, or 0.2%, to $82.66 a barrel by 1415 GMT while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) U.S. …
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By Jibran Ahmad and Saud Mahsud PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – The suicide bomber who killed more than 100 people at a mosque in a police compound in the Pakistan city of Peshawar this week wore a police uniform and entered the high security area on a motorbike, a provincial police chief said on Thursday. The …
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OTTAWA (Reuters) -The Canadian parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted in favor of a non-binding proposal for the resettlement of 10,000 Uyghur Muslim refugees from China’s Xinjiang region into Canada over two years. The House of Commons voted 322-0 for Liberal member of parliament Sameer Zuberi’s bill, which also called on the government to recognize that …
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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Thursday that drills by the United States and its allies have reached an “extreme red-line” and threaten to turn the peninsula into a “huge war arsenal and a more critical war zone.” The Foreign Ministry statement, carried by state news agency KCNA, said Pyongyang was not …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Three people were shot dead and another one died in a hospital after gunshots were fired in KwaMashu township, north of South Africa’s Durban, police said on Wednesday. Five more people with gunshot wounds were rushed to a clinic, said Robert Netshiunda, a police spokesperson in the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal. “It …
CONAKRY (Reuters) -Work on Guinea’s massive Simandou iron ore mine and infrastructure project is set to restart in March, Guinea’s military junta said in a Jan. 30 statement seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Guinean authorities ordered work on Simandou to stop in July last year in a bid to force the shareholders – which include …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy held initial talks on Wednesday about raising U.S. government borrowing limits in a first test of how the two will work together, with both sides agreeing to talk more. The White House said after the meeting that Biden …
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By Alyssa Pointer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) -The relatives of Black people killed by police in cities across the United States came to Tyre Nichols’ funeral in a Memphis church on Wednesday to offer comfort to the family of the Black 29-year-old, who was fatally beaten by officers last month. Speaking over a flower-bedecked casket at …
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By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus and Qatar Airways have settled a dispute over grounded A350 jets, the companies said on Wednesday, averting a potentially damaging UK court trial after a blistering 18-month feud that tore the lid off the global jet market. The “amicable and mutually agreeable settlement” ends a $2 billion row …
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By Jayshree P Upadhyay MUMBAI (Reuters) -India’s market regulator is examining a recent crash in shares of Adani Group and looking into any possible irregularities in a share sale by its flagship company, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) examination comes …
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