By Rama Venkat BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares settled higher on Tuesday, lifted by consumer stocks after data showed domestic inflation was easing, although sustained foreign selling and losses in public sector banks capped the gains. The Nifty 50 index was up 0.89% at 18,053.30 at close, while the S&P BSE Sensex rose 0.94% to 60,655.72. …
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BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -The atmosphere at the Pentecostal church in the city of Kasindi in eastern Congo was upbeat on Sunday as hundreds gathered for a series of baptisms. The congregation swelled beyond capacity, forcing organisers to move the service outside. Then, about 10 minutes in, a blast rocked the courtyard where …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will strive to maintain market confidence by conducting appropriate debt management, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday, as the 10-year government bond yields broke above the upper cap of 0.5% set by the central bank. Asked whether the Bank of Japan should take any steps to rein in rising bond …
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By Wladimiro Pantaleone PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) -Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested by armed police at a private hospital in Sicily on Monday, where the man who has been on the run since 1993 was being treated for cancer. Nicknamed “Diabolik” and “‘U Siccu” (The Skinny One), Messina Denaro had been …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Searchers found the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder on Monday from a passenger flight that crashed, killing at least 70 people in Nepal’s worst plane accident for 30 years, officials said. The data on the recorders may help investigators determine what caused the Yeti Airlines ATR 72 …
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By Prasto Wardoyo SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) – An Indonesian court began a trial on Monday of a handful of police and match officials charged with negligence over their alleged roles last year in one of the world’s deadliest soccer stadium stampedes. The disaster, in which 135 people died, occurred at a match in October at …
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By Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) – Stocks continued their new year rally on Monday as optimism over the global economy, inflation coming under control and China’s reopening offset concerns the Bank of Japan (BOJ) might temper its super-sized stimulus policy at a pivotal meeting this week. The yen climbed to its highest since May after …
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By Herbert Villarraga and Tom Balmforth DNIPRO, Ukraine/KYIV (Reuters) – The death toll from a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 40 on Monday, with dozens more missing, making it the deadliest civilian incident of Moscow’s three-month campaign of firing missiles at cities far from the front. Ukraine says the …
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By Renee Maltezou and Alkis Konstantinidis ATHENS (Reuters) -European royalty gathered in Athens on Monday for the funeral of former King Constantine of Greece, born a prince but buried a commoner after his subjects voted to abolish the monarchy in 1974. Constantine II, a second cousin of Britain’s King Charles and godfather to heir Prince …
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By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – A serving London police officer has admitted carrying out 24 counts of rape in a near two decade-long campaign of abuse against women, making him one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders. The Metropolitan Police and the country’s prosecution service said David Carrick, 48, had used his position of …
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