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Vanuatu says security deal with Australia to be ratified later this year
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Pacific Islands nation of Vanuatu said on Tuesday a security treaty with Australia would be put to parliament before the end of 2023, as concerns over China in...
Jun 06, 2023
Explainer-India train crash: hurtling into loop of disaster
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An investigation into India's deadliest rail crash in more than two decades is underway, with preliminary findings pointing at a signal failure as the likely cause of the collisi...
Jun 06, 2023
Australian lender Westpac to raise interest rates after cenbank hike
(Reuters) - Top Australian lender Westpac Banking Corp said on Tuesday that it will raise its home loan variable interest rates by 25 basis points (bps), in line with the Reserve Bank of Australia's (...
Jun 06, 2023
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce sells $11 million in shares ahead of retirement
(Reuters) - Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd's Chief Executive Alan Joyce on Tuesday sold A$16.9 million ($11.27 million) worth of shares in the airline, giving away a bulk of his holdings ahead of his ...
Jun 06, 2023
Fast Retailing, trading houses lift Japan’s Nikkei to 33-year high
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei index extended its climb to scale a near 33-year high on Tuesday, with trading houses and Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing leading the gains on technical ...
Jun 06, 2023
Sri Lanka to reduce drug prices by 16% as crisis eases- minister
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will slash the price of 60 essential drugs by 16% from June 15, the Health Minister said on Tuesday, as the country sees a glimmer of relief from its...
Jun 06, 2023
Kuwaitis go to the polls again in bid to shift political crisis
By Ahmed Hagagy and Lisa Barrington KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait on Tuesday holds its second legislative election in nine months in a bid to resolve a grinding political crisis that has seen parliament r...
Jun 06, 2023
Russia says no threat ‘for now’ to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after dam breach
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom said on Tuesday that the breach of a dam in southern Ukraine did not pose a threat to the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear pl...
Jun 06, 2023
Repeated arrests, filthy cells: Inside Pakistan’s crackdown
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Hammad Azhar, who has served as Pakistan's finance and energy minister, says police and plain-clothed officials have burst into his home six times in recent weeks...
Jun 06, 2023
Soccer-Depay pulls out of Nations League finals
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Memphis Depay has withdrawn because of injury while Daley Blind and Tijjani Reijnders have been trimmed from the final Netherlands squad for this month's Nations League finals, t...
Jun 06, 2023
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