Published by Reuters UK (Reuters) -Bitcoin dropped below $20,000 on Saturday to its lowest level in 18 months, extending its slide as investors pull back from riskier assets amid rising interest rates. The biggest cryptocurrency was down 7.1% to $18,993 at 0906 GMT, having earlier touched $18,732, its lowest since December 2020. It is down […]
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Published by Reuters UK BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and India on Friday relaunched negotiations to forge a free trade agreement, with the aim of completing talks by the end of 2023. “This partnership will become a defining moment for world trade in the 21st century,” Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal told a news
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Published by Reuters UK By Emma Farge and Philip Blenkinsop GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Trade Organization agreed the first change to global trading rules in years on Friday as well as a deal to boost the supply of COVID-19 vaccines in a series of pledges that were heavy on compromise. The deals were forged in
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Published by Reuters UK LONDON (Reuters) – British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to the United States to face criminal charges, bringing his long-running legal saga closer to a conclusion. Assange is wanted by U.S. authorities on 18 counts, including a spying charge, relating to WikiLeaks’
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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The United States on Thursday condemned remarks by Indian ruling party officials about the Prophet Mohammed that have sparked an uproar in Muslim countries. “We condemn the offensive comments made by two BJP officials and we were glad to see that the party publicly condemns those comments,” State Department
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Published by Reuters By Hyunjoo Jin and Victoria Waldersee SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla has cut job postings by 14% since Chief Executive Elon Musk warned he was worried about the economy, needed to reduce staff and would pause hiring worldwide. Tesla’s actions are a concerning sign of the health of the global economy as
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Published by Reuters UK LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Thursday said it had sanctioned Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, as part of a new wave of sanctions against Russia over the Ukrainian crisis. The Foreign Office said it had sanctioned Lvova-Belova for the forced transfer
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Published by AFP Beijing (AFP) – President Xi Jinping on Wednesday assured Vladimir Putin of China’s support on Russian “sovereignty and security” — leading Washington to warn Beijing it risked ending up “on the wrong side of history”. China has refused to condemn Moscow’s massive military assault on Ukraine and has been accused of providing
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Published by Al-Araby South Asia most often appears in the news as an arena for geopolitical competition. China, Russia, and the United States vie to court major players such as India and Pakistan with diplomatic, economic, and military incentives. Today, though, the region is garnering headlines for perhaps a more ominous reason: climate change. “Scorching
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Published by The Street By Luc Olinga The cryptocurrency market is in disarray. It lost over $2 trillion in eight months. Bill Gates has never hidden that he was not a fan of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. The co-founder of software giant Microsoft (MSFT) – Get Microsoft Corporation Report has just reiterated his aversion to the
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