(Reuters) -The South African rand slipped on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2024, as the U.S. dollar rose on global markets. At 1540 GMT, the rand traded at 18.5750 against the dollar, down 1.6% on its previous close. The dollar was up 0.7% at 102.13 against a basket of global currencies, on track for …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague to contest South Africa’s genocide accusations over the war with Hamas in Gaza, an Israeli government spokesman said on Tuesday. South Africa asked the ICJ on Friday for an urgent order declaring that Israel was in breach of its obligations …
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By Kiyoshi Takenaka, Sakura Murakami and Kantaro Komiya WAJIMA, Japan (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake that hit Japan on New Year’s Day killed at least 55 people, with rescue teams struggling in freezing temperatures on Tuesday to reach coastal areas where many are feared trapped under possibly thousands of destroyed homes. In Suzu, a town …
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By Ankur Banerjee and Medha Singh (Reuters) -Bitcoin galloped past $45,000 on Tuesday, for the first time since April 2022, as the world’s biggest cryptocurrency started the new year with a bang, buoyed by optimism around the possible approval of exchange-traded spot bitcoin funds. Bitcoin touched a 21-month peak of $45,922, having gained 156% last …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces are suffering heavy losses and the notion that Moscow is winning the nearly two-year-old war is only a “feeling” not based on reality. “Thousands, thousands of killed Russian soldiers, nobody even took them away,” he told The Economist magazine in an interview published on Monday, referring to …
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By Bharath Rajeswaran BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s benchmark indexes fell on Tuesday, dragged by financials, auto and information technology stocks, as selling pressure emerged at near record high levels. The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 fell 0.35% to 21,665.80 points, while the S&P BSE Sensex shed 0.53% to 71,892.48. “We expect selling pressure at near record high …
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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Artificial intelligence represents a mixed blessing for the legal field, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said in a year-end report published on Sunday, urging “caution and humility” as the evolving technology transforms how judges and lawyers go about their work. Roberts struck an ambivalent tone in his 13-page …
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By Bhargav Acharya JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Peter Magubane, the renowned artist-photographer who shed light on the everyday struggles of Black South Africans for decades under apartheid, died on Monday. He was 91. After joining Drum magazine in 1955, Magubane gained prominence as one of the few Black photographers covering the repressive era. One of his …
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By Summer Zhen HONG KONG (Reuters) -Baidu has terminated its planned $3.6 billion acquisition of Nasdaq-listed JOYY Inc’s live-streaming business in China, the company said on Monday in a filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange. The failure of the deal casts a shadow on search engine giant Baidu’s ambition to diversify its revenue. The …
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By Dan Williams, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Arafat Barbakh JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israel pulled tanks out of some Gaza City districts on Monday, residents said, as it announced plans to shift tactics and cut back on troop numbers, but fighting raged elsewhere in the Palestinian enclave along with intense bombardment. Israel says the war in Gaza, which …
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