(Reuters) – The Bank of England raised interest rates on Thursday by half-a-point in its biggest move in 27 years to tame inflation. Central banks in the United States, Canada,…
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – A man arrested with a crossbow at Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle home on Christmas Day last year has been charged with having a weapon…
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By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s record-breaking heatwave last month saw England and Wales register https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending22july2022 nearly 1,700 extra deaths in just one week, early data shows, while Portugal…
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By Andrew MacAskill and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s foreign minister Liz Truss, the frontrunner to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister, was forced to backtrack on one of her…
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(Reuters) – Strikes and staff shortages are forcing airlines to cancel thousands of flights and causing hours-long queues at major airports, dashing hopes for a sizzling first summer following widespread…
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By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – The trillions of dollars in overnight cash tucked away daily at the Federal Reserve could turn into a major headache for banks that…
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By Jennifer Rigby and Julie Steenhuysen LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – As the third winter of the coronavirus pandemic looms in the northern hemisphere, scientists are warning weary governments and populations alike…
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By Peter Hobson LONDON (Reuters) – Some investors want Russian gold off their books but it’s not that easy to remove. A de facto ban on Russian bullion minted after…
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By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is considering limiting shipments of American chipmaking equipment to memory chip makers in China including Yangtze Memory Technologies…
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Analysts have trimmed their year-end inflation forecasts for Russia and see room for the central bank to continue cutting rates as it tries to blunt the impact…
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By Maria Tsvetkova ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A week into Moscow’s war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a gesture of solidarity with his soldiers at the front: injured men…
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By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar pared gains on Thursday after data showed that the U.S. economy contracted again in the second quarter, fueling speculation that the…
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By Steve Holland and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping began their fifth call as leaders on Thursday, as concerns mounted over a possible…
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By Sujata Rao, Dhara Ranasinghe and Vincent Flasseur LONDON (Reuters) – Sharply higher interest rates, red-hot inflation and a prolonged energy crisis are leading to conviction that the world economy…
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By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) -A U.S. aircraft carrier and its strike group have returned to the South China Sea after a port call in Singapore, deploying in the…
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By Richa Naidu and Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – Consumer-focused firms are seeing no shortage of demand despite the soaring cost-of-living, prompting several to upgrade sales forecasts for the current…