LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said he wanted to lower tax rates for individuals and especially businesses in the longer term but warned it would take time because the economy needed to grow more quickly first. Hunt, who is due to present his budget on Wednesday, said in an interview broadcast on …
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KABUL (Reuters) -A blast hit a cultural centre during an event for journalists in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding eight, according to authorities and journalists, a few days after the province’s governor died in an explosion claimed by Islamic State. “Today, at 11:30 a.m. an explosion occurred at the …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Only 16% of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party voters would back British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s recent deal with the European Union on post-Brexit trade rules if a referendum were held, a poll showed on Saturday. The survey by polling company LucidTalk for the Belfast Telegraph newspaper found that just 38% of …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and Australia aim to expand trade in critical mineral to help them achieve their goals on reducing carbon emissions, as they seek a broad trade pact, Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said Saturday. “India is short of critical minerals. Australia has a large reserve of critical minerals that go into …
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(Corrects date in headline and first paragraph) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Ethiopia and Niger from March 14-17 to discuss regional issues and meet with an African Union leader, the State Department said on Friday. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 15, Blinken will discuss implementation of the …
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(Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack that targeted the village of Mukondi, around 30 km (20 miles) south of the city of Beni in North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the group’s Amaq agency reported on Friday. Islamist militants killed at least 35 people in an overnight attack …
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(Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers met with the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Friday to discuss the collapse of SVB Financial Group, Coindesk reported on Saturday citing a source. Democratic U.S. Representative Maxine Waters held briefings with officials from the two regulators and the Treasury Department, hours after the startup-focused SVB’s collapse, the …
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(Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc said on Friday it is exploring strategic alternatives for customer service company Kustomer that it acquired in a process ending last year. “We are currently exploring strategic alternatives for Kustomer and will continue to support Kustomer’s product and customer base throughout this process,” the Facebook owner said in an emailed …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s President William Ruto has appointed Susan Koech, a career banker who has also worked in top government posts, to be the second deputy governor of the central bank, his spokesperson said. The post had been unoccupied for more than five years after Ruto’s predecessor failed to fill it when its previous …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Police in India have arrested three men in eastern Bihar state in connection with the death of a Muslim man who was attacked because he was suspected of carrying beef, a police official said on Saturday. The victim, Naseem Qureshi, 56, died earlier this week after being attacked by a mob …
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