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Biden to set new U.S. guidelines on reproductive rights, 100 days after Roe v Wade
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will announce new guidelines and grants to protect reproductive rights on Tuesday, and describe how abortion rights have been curtailed ...
Oct 04, 2022
Turkish energy, gold imports soar in September – ministry data
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish energy imports leapt 115% to $9.56 billion in September, the highest ever monthly level, Trade Ministry data showed on Tuesday. It also showed that gold imports soared 543...
Oct 04, 2022
Ritual piercings mark annual Taoist festival in Thailand
PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Worshippers on Thailand's Phuket island have celebrated a nine-day Taoist festival, with many piercing their faces with metal spikes and walking on hot coals to show devot...
Oct 04, 2022
Malaysia confirms budget announcement on schedule, amid election speculation
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia will present its 2023 budget on Friday as previously scheduled, a finance ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday, amid speculation that parliament could be dissolved b...
Oct 04, 2022
Germany’s biggest power producer RWE to phase out coal by 2030
BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany's largest power producer RWE said on Tuesday it is bringing forward its coal phase-out by eight years and is ready to end lignite-based electricity generation in 20...
Oct 04, 2022
S.Africa’s rail and port workers to strike this week over wages – unions
(Reuters) - Workers at South Africa's state-owned logistics firm Transnet will go on strike starting this Thursday over a wage dispute, two labour unions said, in a move that could halt the export of ...
Oct 04, 2022
Russian court fines Amazon’s Twitch $68,000 over refusal to delete content
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday fined streaming service Twitch 4 million roubles ($68,000) for failing to remove an interview with a Ukrainian political figure, the Interfax news agency ...
Oct 04, 2022
U.S. Treasury seeks three-phased Russian fuel price cap
By Julia Payne GENEVA (Reuters) - New sanctions by G7 countries on Russia will target its oil and products in three phases, senior U.S. treasury official Ben Harris told the Argus European Crude Confe...
Oct 04, 2022
Africa sees record venture capital investment, bucking global decline
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - African startups attracted a record $3.5 billion in venture capital investment in the first half of this year, bucking a global decline in dealmaking linked to worldwide econo...
Oct 04, 2022
U.S. inspections of China corporate audits at ‘very early stage,’ PwC says
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. regulatory inspections of audits of Chinese companies listed in the United States have begun and it could be months before the conclusions are known, PwC Global Ch...
Oct 04, 2022
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