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Column: Foreigners may temper the taper
By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Conventional wisdom holds that central banks tapering their bond purchases will push bond yields higher - but recent U.S. and UK sovereign debt sales show f...
Aug 20, 2021
Indonesia police arrest 53 suspected of plotting Independence Day attack
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police have arrested 53 militants suspected of planning an attack on independence day this week, including alleged members of networks blamed for past attacks like the 2...
Aug 20, 2021
U.S. envoy heads to Seoul for talks on Korean peninsula -State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. envoy for North Korea will visit Seoul from Aug. 21-24 for talks with senior South Korean officials, the State Department said on Friday. It said U.S. Special Represent...
Aug 20, 2021
U.S. faces deadline to reinstate ‘remain in Mexico’ border program
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States faces a court-ordered deadline this weekend to resume a controversial immigration program that forced tens of thousands of migrants to wait in Me...
Aug 20, 2021
U.S. court to hear Mexico litigation against arms makers, says minister
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A U.S. federal court in Massachusetts has agreed to hear litigation filed by the Mexican government against various arms manufacturers in the United States, Foreign Minister Ma...
Aug 20, 2021
Canada’s major banks to require employees entering premises to be vaccinated
By Nichola Saminather TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) will require employees entering their premises to be fully vaccinated against COVID-1...
Aug 20, 2021
Russia has vaccinated over 43 million people against COVID-19 – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has so far vaccinated over 43 million people against COVID-19, out of a population of more than 144 million, the RIA news agency reported on Friday, citing the health ministe...
Aug 20, 2021
Minister says 700 Dutch nationals in Afghanistan, chaos at airport
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Chaos at the airport in Kabul means that no country knows which plane its citizens are on, the Netherlands' foreign minister said on Friday, adding that there are more than 700 D...
Aug 20, 2021
Scotland’s power-sharing deal gives pro-independence majority
LONDON (Reuters) - The ruling Scottish National Party agreed a power-sharing deal with the Scottish Green Party on Friday that cements a pro-independence majority in the devolved parliament ahead of a...
Aug 20, 2021
U.S. doesn’t have ‘precise number’ of Americans in Afghanistan – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government does not know exactly how many Americans are currently in Afghanistan, the White House communications director said on Friday, even as it races to evacuate t...
Aug 20, 2021
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