Hong Kong rings in 2020 with New Year’s protest
SHANGHAI/BEIJING, Jan 22 (Reuters) – China’s major state-owned banks moved to support the yuan on Monday, tightening liquidity in the offshore foreign exchange market while actively selling U.S. dollars onshore as equities slid, four sources with knowledge of the matter said. The goal was to prevent the yuan from falling too fast as China’s A…
NEW DEHLI: Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday hailed the India-US trade agreements as a “tremendous opportunity” for the country, calling it “the best deal” New Dehli has secured compared to its neighbors. Addressing a press conference a day after the agreement, Goyal said, “This is the best deal India has received. It is…
Up to 500 people are still missing from a packed migrant boat that sank off Greece, the UN refugee agency says. Large numbers of women and children were among those missing in the “horrific tragedy” that left 78 people dead, said spokesman Jeremy Laurence. The appalling loss of life underscored the need to bring people…
Between Alternative for Germany and France’s National Rally, populists continue to rise in Europe’s most powerful countries. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the most popular party in the country, according to a striking new poll published Tuesday. If a national election were now held, 26 percent of Germans would vote for the…
DAMASCUS, April 1 (Reuters) – Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria on Monday, a marked escalation in a war pitting Israel against its regional adversaries, and Tehran said the strike killed seven military advisers including three senior commanders. Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering…
MOSCOW – The Kremlin on March 11 accused British specialists of involvement in a deadly Ukrainian strike on the Russian city of Bryansk that used British Storm Shadow missiles and said it would take Britain’s role “into account”. The Bryansk regional governor said the strike on March 10 killed at least six civilians and injured…