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European shares gain on China’s reopening optimism
(Reuters) - European shares climbed on Friday, as optimistic investors gauged the potential impact of a week-long Lunar New Year holidays after China lifted its COVID-19 curbs, even as concerns over g...
Jan 20, 2023
Death toll of avalanche rose to 20 in Tibet
BEIJING (Reuters) - Twenty people were killed, eight were still missing after an avalanche in the city Nyingchi in Tibet, state media reported on Friday. Fifty-three survivors were found, five of whom...
Jan 20, 2023
Take Five: Staring at the ceiling
(Reuters) - The world's largest economy hitting its debt limit is fraying confidence, just as some of the biggest names in the U.S. corporate landscape get ready to report results. Global business act...
Jan 20, 2023
Former soldier kills 5, including police officer, in ex-Soviet Georgia
TBILISI (Reuters) - A Georgian man killed five people including a police officer after opening fire from the balcony of a residential building, then turned his gun on himself, the Georgian interior mi...
Jan 20, 2023
French sugar beet pesticide exemption halted by EU ruling
PARIS (Reuters) - France's plans to allow sugar beet farmers to continue using a banned pesticide for another year have been halted by a European Union court decision excluding such exemptions. After ...
Jan 20, 2023
Japan Tobacco urged to sell drug unit by activist shareholder LIM
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Tobacco Inc, the cigarette conglomerate one-third owned by the government, is facing a shareholder motion to sell off its listed drug unit Torii Pharmaceutical Co. to boost sha...
Jan 20, 2023
As COVID surged in China, so did spending by funeral providers
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) - A funeral parlour in the Chinese city of Shantou published a tender recently for an "emergency purchase" of two cremation ovens, according to a government procu...
Jan 20, 2023
India’s aviation regulator fines Air India about $37,000 for unruly passenger incident
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Air India has been fined 3 million rupees (about $37,000) for its handling of an unruly passenger on one of its flights in November, India's aviation regulator said on Friday. Th...
Jan 20, 2023
Poland ready to send Ukraine tanks even if Germany opposes it -deputy FM
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland could send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine even without Germany's re-export approval, a deputy foreign minister said on Friday, ahead of a crunch meeting on weapons for Kyiv. Wars...
Jan 20, 2023
Christian Kettel Thomsen appointed Danish central bank governor
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Danish government said on Friday it has appointed Christian Kettel Thomsen to the job of central bank governor from Feb. 1, taking over from Lars Rohde who announced last year...
Jan 20, 2023
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