By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency companies that have resisted U.S. regulatory oversight, arguing digital assets are not securities, won a court victory this week. On Thursday Ripple Labs got …
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(Reuters) – Toyota Motor said this week it will adopt a technology Tesla pioneered known as “Gigacasting” as part of a strategy by the Japanese automaker to improve the performance …
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(Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at his press conference on Wednesday is likely to get asked – again – what contingencies he plans for in the event of …
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By Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Nearly all corn and soybean acres in the world’s largest exporting countries are seeded with genetically modified varieties, but that is not the case …
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By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are piling into shorter-dated options contracts, boosting trading volumes in the options market to new highs while sparking concerns about a …
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By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – The United States plans to shake up its marine force on Japan’s Okinawa islands as Tokyo undertakes its biggest military build up since World …
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NPRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo will begin on Thursday a two-month implementation period for a controversial move to oblige Serbs, mainly those living in the northern part of the Balkan nation, …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – The United States plans to roll out an updated COVID-19 booster vaccine to include Omicron subvariants of the coronavirus. Regulators are …
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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO – The United States declared monkeypox a public health emergency last week, an effort to bolster the U.S. response to contain the outbreak. The virus continues …
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JERUSALEM – Israeli officials say air strikes on Gaza have targeted the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement rather than Hamas, the militant group which rules the enclave. What is the …
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MOSCOW – Tension over giant turbines that Moscow blames for the reduction of flows via the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline has put the focus on the equipment it needs …
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BAGHDAD – A power struggle in Iraq between the influential Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Sadr and Iran-backed Shi’ite rivals has escalated with his supporters breaking into parliament and beginning an open-ended …
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By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK – U.S. crude shippers are exporting huge amounts of oil to meet strong demand from Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions against …
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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON – A budding courtship between Russia and Iran is an unwelcome development for the West that the United States will watch with concern, but it falls …
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By Devjyot Ghoshal and Alasdair Pal (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s economic crisis looks to have finally toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday, likely headed to …
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By Elaine Lies TOKYO – Japan will vote in upper house elections on Sunday that have implications for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s grip on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) …
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By Susanna Twidale LONDON – Benchmark European and British gas prices are on course for gains of more than 50% this week after Russia said capacity of its Nord Stream …
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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS – European Union countries are struggling to agree oil sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, nearly four weeks after the European Commission proposed them. …
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By Vera Eckert FRANKFURT – A bill to guarantee minimum gas storage levels in Germany, whose underground facilities account for a quarter of the EU bloc’s total capacity, will kick …
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By Rocky Swift TOKYO – Japan’s government has severed banking and trade ties with Russia over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, but a tobacco company in which it owns a one-third …
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BEIJING – The Russian athletes taking part at this month’s Beijing Olympics will be competing without their flag and national anthem because of doping sanctions. Here is why sanctions were …
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– Dozens of people have died and thousands have been detained in Kazakhstan over the past week during the worst violence seen in the Central Asian nation since it became …
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By Manas Mishra and Leroy Leo – The spread of the Omicron variant and a surge in COVID-19 cases have raised Americans’ concern about traveling over the holidays. Health experts …
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By Deena Beasley – The Omicron coronavirus variant has been detected in 77 countries since it was first identified three weeks ago, fueling concerns that its large number of mutations …
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By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON – Now that the U.S. House of Representatives has passed President Joe Biden’s ambitious $1.75 trillion social policy and climate bill, the action moves to the …