By Nimesh Vora MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian rupee rose against the dollar on Thursday, helped by a broad recovery in Asian currencies following losses fuelled by worries over rising U.S. yields. The rupee was at 82.77 to the U.S. dollar by 10:29 a.m. IST, up from 82.85 in the previous session. Following the higher …
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By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) – When Russia sent troops into Ukraine a year ago, the director of the Kyiv National Art Gallery had only one thing on his mind: the safety of the paintings. As air sirens blared, Yuri Vakulenko packed a bag and headed to the gallery, where he would spend the next …
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(Reuters) -Norfolk Southern will take responsibility for cleaning up the environmental damage from this month’s train derailment and controlled detonation of hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio, its chief executive said on Wednesday. The comments by CEO Alan Shaw to angry East Palestine residents in a CNN town call came a day after the U.S. …
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By Ali Sawafta NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli troops killed 11 Palestinians, including at least four gunmen and four civilians, and wounded more than 100 people during a Wednesday raid on a city in the occupied West Bank, witnesses, militant groups and medical officials said. The Israeli military confirmed the operation in Nablus, saying troops …
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(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is rolling out tests that block access to news content for some Canadian users, the company confirmed on Wednesday, in what it says is a test run of a potential response to the government’s online news bill. The “Online News Act,” or House of Commons bill C-18, introduced in April …
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By Dharamraj Dhutia and Anushka Trivedi MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian companies are likely to replace their dollar-denominated debt with local bonds or bank loans in the near term, as conditions in the onshore markets turn favourable, the managing director and head of debt capital markets with HSBC India said. Rupee loans from Indian banks are …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The number of people killed in Turkey in this month’s devastating earthquakes has risen to 43,556, the country’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said overnight. Soylu told state broadcaster TRT Haber that there had been 7,930 aftershocks following the first quake on Feb. 6 and that more than 600,000 apartments and 150,000 commercial …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration will unveil on Thursday a long-awaited overhaul of arms export policy with increased emphasis on human rights, three State Department officials familiar with the new Conventional Arms Transfer (CAT) policy told Reuters. The CAT policy covers review of security assistance, government-to-government weapons transfers and …
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By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) -A major winter storm battered the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest with high winds and heavy snow on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of schools to close, grounding air travel and making road travel difficult – if not impossible – in some U.S. areas. More than 50 million Americans were under winter …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian carmaker Tata Motors has begun talks with sovereign wealth funds and private equity investors to raise up to $1 billion via a stake sale in its electric vehicle (EV) business, Economic Times reported on Thursday, citing sources. The company plans to sell a significant minority stake, the newspaper report added, eyeing a …
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