By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Two car bombs detonated by al Shabaab militants in central Somalia on Wednesday killed at least 35 people, including eight members of a single family, and wounded 40 more, a senior police officer said. The attack in the town of Mahas was the latest in a series by al Qaeda …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s rand strengthened on Wednesday ahead of minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s December policy meeting that could give clues on its interest rate tightening path. At 1513 GMT, the rand traded at 16.8750 against the dollar, 0.81% stronger than its previous close. Minutes from the Fed’s December meeting are due to …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s rand strengthened on Wednesday ahead of minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s December policy meeting that could give clues on its interest rate tightening path. At 1513 GMT, the rand traded at 16.8750 against the dollar, 0.81% stronger than its previous close. Minutes from the Fed’s December meeting are due to …
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(Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that 89 servicemen were killed in the Ukrainian attack on Makiivka in the Moscow-controlled parts of the Donetsk region, adding the main reason for the attack was unauthorised use of mobile phones by the troops. “It is already obvious that the main reason for what happened was the …
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(This Jan. 3 story has been corrected to fix the period of the reduced production forecast from midyear to March 2022, in the fourth paragraph) By Paul Lienert and Akash Sriram (Reuters) – Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive barely missed its full-year production target of 25,000 vehicles in 2022, the company said in a filing …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow retail pharmacies to offer abortion pills in the United States for the first time, the agency said on Tuesday, even as more states seek to ban medication abortion. The regulatory change will potentially expand abortion access as President Joe Biden’s administration …
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By John Shiffman (Reuters) -A former Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced to 20Â years in federal prison on Tuesday for defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission. Megan Hess, 46, pleaded guilty to fraud in July. She operated a funeral home, Sunset Mesa, and a body parts …
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By Gabriella Borter and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The first major U.S. winter storm system of the year dumped a frosty mix of snow, freezing rain and sleet from the Northern Plains to the Upper Great Lakes region on Tuesday while posing a tornado and flood threat to a large swath of the South. The National …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares fell about 1% on Wednesday, with financials and metals leading a broad-based retreat as investors fret over the rising COVID-19 cases in China and the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hiking path. The Nifty 50 index closed 1.04% lower at 18,042.95, while the S&P BSE Sensex fell 1.04% to 60,657.45, with the two …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden has named Willie Phillips, a Democrat, acting chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC said on Tuesday. Phillips joined the commission in December, 2021 after being appointed by Biden and approved by Congress. Phillips will be the first Black person to take the reigns at FERC. Before coming …
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