WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is eager to leave a hospital where he has been receiving treatment for a concussion since suffering a fall two days ago, a former aide said on Friday. “Been with him the past two days. Anyone and everyone who steps inside his room wearing a name …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -Japan has become the latest country to join an alternative mechanism for resolving disputes to the World Trade Organization, it said in a statement on Friday, in a move that observers say could urge others to follow suit. The top appeals bench of the global trade watchdog which rules on trade disputes has …
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SAO PAULO, 10 mar (Reuters) – La cosecha de soja de la campaña 2022/23 ha alcanzado el 48,9% del área total en Brasil, frente al 39,65% de la semana pasada, mostraron el viernes datos de la consultora Safras & Mercado, con los trabajos por detrás de los registrados en la misma época en años anteriores. …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that she agreed with President Joe Biden during a meeting at the White House on Friday to have a dialogue concerning incentives to the clean technology industry. Describing her meeting with Biden as “very good,” von der Leyen said they agreed to work on …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The hardline U.S. House Freedom Caucus responded to President Joe Biden’s $6.8 trillion budget proposal on Friday, with a list of demands including a near freeze on discretionary spending and an end to multiple programs, in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. The caucus of at least 37 members, …
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Por Valentine Hilaire 10 mar (Reuters) -El ministro de Comercio de Panamá, Federico Alfaro, dijo en una entrevista a Reuters el viernes que confía en que el contrato acordado con la canadiense First Quantum para regular sus operaciones en una importante mina de cobre sea aprobado por las autoridades locales faltantes. El funcionario informó que …
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Belgian federal government employees will no longer be allowed to use the Chinese-owned video app TikTok on their work phones, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Friday. De Croo said the Belgian national security council had warned of the risks associated with the large amounts of data collected by TikTok, which …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Five purported Mexican drug cartel members have been arrested over the recent kidnapping and killing of Americans in the border state of Tamaulipas, authorities said on Friday. Two Americans and a Mexican woman died after gunmen opened fire in broad daylight on a group of four U.S. citizens soon after they had …
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By Ernest Scheyder and Stephanie Kelly HOUSTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Joe Manchin said on Friday he is “totally opposed” to allowing Chinese battery maker CATL to access U.S. tax dollars that finance electric vehicle purchases as part of its partnership with Ford Motor Co. The blunt statements from Manchin, who wrote the Inflation Reduction Act …
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BUENOS AIRES, 10 mar (Reuters) -La petrolera argentina YPF espera duplicar la producción de petróleo e incrementar 30% la producción de gas natural en los próximos cinco años, dijo el viernes el gerente de Finanzas, Alejandro Lew. La compañía, bajo control estatal, proyecta un crecimiento de la producción de petróleo del 8% y del gas …
