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Deutsche Bank investors ask if profits sustainable, question strategy
By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Deutsche Bank investors on Wednesday questioned the sustainability of the lender's growth plans and called for a shift of resources from the investment bank, even as t...
May 17, 2023
Asia’s April heatwaves were ’30 times more likely’ because of climate change – scientists
By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Record-breaking heatwaves that hit large parts of South and Southeast Asia in April were made "30 times more likely" as a result of human-induced climate change,...
May 17, 2023
Argentine shoemakers and tailors buckle under 109% inflation
By Horacio Soria BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - In Juan Capano's shoemakers' workshop on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, 109% inflation makes a painful daily impact: constantly changing input costs for the l...
May 17, 2023
Analysis-Jet-setting Lula risks losing focus on Brazil issues, allies say
By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's focus on foreign policy and a relentless schedule of trips abroad risks distracting him from tackling thorny...
May 17, 2023
Biden to continue debt talks later this week amid G7, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will continue to hold talks with congressional leaders on the nation's debt limit later this week and will meet with them again after the G7 summit, a Wh...
May 17, 2023
Most groundwater still low in France despite spring rainfall
PARIS (Reuters) - Above-average rainfall in most of France in March and April has improved groundwater levels but more than-two thirds remained below average with the situation still worrying in the s...
May 17, 2023
Biden’s Papua New Guinea no-show deals blow to US credibility in Pacific – analysts
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's cancelled visit to Papua New Guinea, which had declared next Monday a public holiday in honour of his arrival, has dealt a blow to U.S. ...
May 17, 2023
Bank of England’s Bailey sees some cooling in job market
LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Wednesday there were some signs of a cooling of inflation pressure in Britain's labour market but it was too soon to say the risks pose...
May 17, 2023
Pope pauses St Peter’s Square audience to take phone call
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday interrupted his weekly audience with the faithful to take a phone call, keeping people in St Peter's Square waiting for more than a minute. An aide h...
May 17, 2023
ECB zeroes in on struggling borrowers and forex as times get tougher
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank on Wednesday told banks to step up how they manage struggling borrowers and their own currency trading in an environment of higher interest rates and ji...
May 17, 2023
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