Published by Reuters By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -At least one person confirmed to have COVID-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of country’s first confirmed outbreak of the pandemic. The data represents
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Published by Reuters UK SINGAPORE (Reuters) -HSBC Holdings said on Thursday it was launching a $1 billion lending fund to invest in female-owned businesses over the next 12 months. “The level of funding received over time by female-led businesses is significantly lower than male counterparts, while the recent impacts of the pandemic have seen these
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Published by Reuters UK By Belén Carreño and Sergio Goncalves MADRID/LISBON (Reuters) – Surging energy prices pushed Spanish inflation to a peak of just under 10% in March, the highest in the euro area and nearly double the 5.3% in neighbouring Portugal – despite the fact the two Iberian economies share a wholesale electricity market.
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Published by Reuters UK By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin , LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices dropped more than 2% on Thursday in a volatile week as recession fears dogged global financial markets, outweighing supply concerns and geopolitical tensions in Europe. Brent crude was down $2.26, or 2.1%, to $105.25 a barrel at 0903 GMT. WTI crude fell $2.45,
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Published by Reuters UK (Reuters) – Deliveroo said on Thursday it has signed an agreement with trade union GMB to give the food delivery firm’s 90,000 self-employed riders in Britain the rights to collective bargaining on pay and consultation on benefits. The British company said a pay floor will be guaranteed to riders as part
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Published by Reuters By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration has drafted an executive order that would give the Department of Justice vast powers to stop foreign adversaries like China accessing Americans’ personal data, according to a person familiar with the matter and excerpts seen by Reuters. The proposal, which
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Published by Reuters UK LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will have no choice but to take action unless the European Union shows more flexibility in talks over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told the EU on Thursday. “The Foreign Secretary … said the situation in Northern Ireland is a matter of
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Published by Reuters By Jorge Silva and Ivan Lubysh-Kirdey BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) – The hospital in the small Ukrainian town of Bakhmut was never intended to receive queues of ambulances bringing the wounded and traumatised from the front line of Europe’s biggest battlefield. Nor did the volunteer paramedics expect, four months ago, to be shuttling
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Published by Reuters By Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – On Monday morning, hundreds of supporters gathered at the prime minister’s official residence in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital of Colombo where they urged Mahinda Rajapaksa not to resign. Arguably the country’s most powerful man, and scion of the dynasty to which his younger
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Published by Reuters JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) -An Al Jazeera reporter was shot dead during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, with Palestinians and the news channel accusing Israel of killing her and Israel’s leader saying she was likely hit by Palestinian fire. Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, a Palestinian-American, was wearing
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