By Tyrone Siu and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested a veteran pro-democracy politician who was granted bail last August for medical treatment after spending more than a year in detention on a subversion charge. Albert Ho, 71, once led the city’s largest opposition group, the Democratic Party, and …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it had protested to Canada’s top diplomat in Moscow over comments by Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly about “regime change” in Russia. The ministry said it summoned Canadian charge d’affaires Brian Ebel on Monday and told him Joly’s comments were unacceptable. Canadian media quoted Joly as saying …
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(Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) rose 53.6% in February on the year, after a rise of 53.2% in January, the statistics department of the debt-stricken country said on Tuesday. Food prices eased to 49% in February from 53.6% in January, while non-food inflation was at 57.4%, the Department of Census and …
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – The Ugandan shilling traded little-changed on Tuesday although it remained on the back foot, undermined by high foreign exchange appetite from commercial banks beefing up their positions, traders said. At 0850 GMT commercial banks quoted the shilling at 3,748/3,758, compared to Monday’s close of 3,745/3,755. (Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Editing by Hereward …
21 mar (Reuters) – El Kremlin afirmó el martes que el presidente ruso, Vladímir Putin, y el líder chino, Xi Jinping, mantuvieron un “exhaustivo” intercambio de puntos de vista durante su primer día de conversaciones y habían discutido el plan de paz de Pekín para Ucrania. El portavoz del Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, se negó a …
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By Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday passed into law an emergency decree on jobs and investment, eliminating legal uncertainty hanging over measures President Joko Widodo has pushed to spur investment in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. The new law replaces the 2020 Jobs Creation law, which was praised by foreign investors for streamlining …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British power generator SSE will invest 100 million pounds ($122 million) in a Scottish pumped hydro scheme which could help boost the country’s energy storage capacity, it said on Tuesday. Pumped hydro plants work by pumping water uphill to a higher reservoir before releasing it to enable water to flow downhill through …
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By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting on Tuesday, with some top central bank watchers saying it could well pause further rate hikes given recent trouble among banks or even delay releasing new economic projections because the outlook is so clouded. Or not. The Fed meeting concludes Wednesday …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s parliament is to meet in a special joint session on Wednesday to “take important decisions” to enforce the state’s authority, media reported, in the midst of prolonged anti-government defiance by former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Former cricket star Khan was prime minister from 2018 until 2022, when he was ousted from office …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – The southern Indian state of Karnataka has approved an 80 billion rupee ($967.91 million) investment in the state by a unit of Taiwan’s Foxconn. The investment will lead to the creation of 50,000 jobs, the government said in a statement on Monday. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, has been in …
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