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Analysis-Biden debt relief plan disappoints Black farmers for avoiding race
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Black farmers say they are disappointed by a new U.S. agriculture debt relief program that stands to save thousands of farmers from foreclosure, after the p...
Aug 17, 2022
TikTok to clamp down on paid political posts by influencers ahead of U.S. midterms
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - TikTok will work to prevent content creators from posting paid political messages on the short-form video app, as part of its preparation for the U.S. midterm election in No...
Aug 17, 2022
OPEC not to blame for soaring inflation, secretary general tells CNBC
(Reuters) - Inadequate investment in the oil and gas sector is the chief reason behind the recent spike in prices and OPEC is not to blame, OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais told CNBC on Wednesd...
Aug 17, 2022
Pot-smoking tourists not welcome in Thailand, says health minister
By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's health minister on Wednesday discouraged tourists from visiting the country only to smoke weed, just two months after new laws were passed that ha...
Aug 17, 2022
UK supermarket Iceland offers loans to help struggling shoppers buy food
LONDON (Reuters) - British supermarket group Iceland Foods will allow shoppers to take out small, interest-free loans to buy groceries, it said on Wednesday, in a scheme targeted at poor households st...
Aug 17, 2022
China vows to support digitalisation of 4,000-6,000 small firms by 2025
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will support around 300 service platforms to help with the digital transformation of 4,000-6,000 small- and medium-sized enterprises till 2025, the country's industry and inf...
Aug 17, 2022
Analysis: 100 banks, 1,000 suspects: German fraud probe puts Scholz on the spot
By Marta Orosz and Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German chancellor Olaf Scholz faces lawmakers' questions this week over his role in tackling a multibillion-euro tax fraud as a sprawling probe into t...
Aug 17, 2022
Japan auto lobby says it is concerned about new U.S. law on EV credits
TOKYO (Reuters) - A major Japanese auto lobby said it was concerned about a new U.S. law that restricts tax credits for electric vehicles to those assembled in North America. The Biden administration ...
Aug 17, 2022
Analysis-China central bank, under pressure to ease, is hemmed-in by inflation, Fed jitters
By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank is set to take more easing steps, pressured by a shaky economy that is undercutting jobs, but it faces limited room to manoeuvre due to worries ov...
Aug 17, 2022
Euro zone second-quarter growth revised down slightly, employment rises
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone economic growth was slightly less robust in the second quarter than previously estimated but still strong, revised data from the European statistics office showed on Wed...
Aug 17, 2022
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