By Sarah Young and Tim Hepher LONDON (Reuters) -The first orbital satellite to set off for space from western Europe will be launched from Cornwall in southwest England on Monday. Virgin Orbit, part-owned by billionaire Richard Branson, who founded the Virgin Atlantic airline, plans to use a modified Boeing 747 with a rocket attached under …
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By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices were little changed on Friday as the market balanced a weaker U.S. dollar and mixed U.S. jobs reports, but both crude benchmarks ended the first week of the year lower due to global recession concerns. Brent futures fell 12 cents, or 0.2%, to settle at $78.57 a …
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ALMATY (Reuters) -Workers removed the branding from McDonald’s outlets in Kazakhstan’s biggest city, Almaty on Friday after the fast food giant’s local business appeared to fall victim to collateral damage from the Russia-Ukraine war. The brand’s exit from the Central Asian nation of 20 million divided opinion on social media and among onlookers near one …
By Seher Dareen (Reuters) – Gold prices shot up over 1% on Friday to seven-month highs as Treasury yields and the dollar fell after U.S. economic data cemented expectations of a less-hawkish Fed, setting the metal on track for its third consecutive weekly rise. Spot gold jumped 1.9% to $1,867.18 per ounce by 1:43 p.m. …
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MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish-language version of “Spare”, the much-awaited memoir of Britain’s Prince Harry, went on sale in book stores in Spain on Thursday, days ahead of its official launch date. The book reveals details about Harry’s relationship with his father, King Charles, his elder brother, Prince William, and other members of the British …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The rand edged higher on Friday, regaining ground thanks to a U.S. jobs report that sent the dollar tumbling, with South African stocks and bonds also making gains. The South African currency had earlier fallen after Gwede Mantashe, chairman of the governing African National Congress (ANC), told Bloomberg that it wanted to expand …
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By Michael Holden and Charlie Devereux LONDON/MADRID (Reuters) -Britain’s Prince Harry says his older brother and heir to the throne Prince William knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument over Harry’s American wife, Meghan, in his much-awaited memoir, which went on sale days early in Spain on Thursday. In his book “Spare”, Harry …
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By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police on Friday said a suspect had been arrested in connection with the death of a prominent LGBTQ rights campaigner whose body was found stuffed into a metal box in the west of the country. Motorbike taxi riders alerted police after they saw the box dumped by the roadside …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand is expecting at least five million Chinese tourist arrivals this year, about half the number recorded before the coronavirus pandemic, as China reopens its borders, the government tourism body said on Tuesday. The return of Chinese tourists would be a further boost to Southeast Asian country’s economy and its vital tourism …
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By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd flagged on Friday its quarterly profit tumbled by two-thirds to an eight-year low as a weakening global economy hammered memory chip prices and curbed demand for electronic devices. The dismal profit estimate by the world’s largest memory chip, smartphone and TV maker …
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