September 28, 2021 By Devik Jain and Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) – Nasdaq futures fell more than 1% on Tuesday as technology heavyweights came under pressure from a surge in bond yields on expectations of higher interest rates and rising inflation. The two-year U.S. Treasury yield surged to 18-month highs, weighing on shares of high-growth companies […]
Singapore population sees biggest percentage drop since 1950
September 28, 2021 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s population size this year saw its sharpest percentage drop since 1950, a report said on Tuesday, as coronavirus-induced travel restriction kept foreigners away from the Asian financial hub. It was the second consecutive year the city-state saw its population shrink and only the third time it had negative […]
WTO chief says trade must do more to address ‘devastating’ vaccine inequity
September 28, 2021 GENEVA (Reuters) – The head of the World Trade Organization said on Tuesday that the low COVID-19 vaccination rate of around 4% in Africa was “devastating”, saying that trade should help address vaccine inequity. WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s remarks came at the opening session of a Geneva-based trade event alongside South Africa’s […]
Belarus leader: change constitution to prevent opposition from taking power
September 28, 2021 MINSK (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko called on Tuesday for changes to the constitution that would prevent an opposition movement that rose up against him in mass street protests last year from taking power, the state news agency Belta reported. President since 1994, Lukashenko has touted constitutional reform as a way […]
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China asking state-backed firms to pick up Evergrande assets – sources
September 28, 2021 By Clare Jim and Jing Xu HONG KONG (Reuters) – Beijing is prodding government-owned firms and state-backed property developers such as China Vanke Co Ltd to purchase some of embattled China Evergrande Group’s assets, people with knowledge of the matter said. Evergrande, saddled with $305 billion in liabilities, is teetering on the […]
Egypt tries researcher held on return from Italy on false news charge
September 28, 2021 MANSOURA, Egypt (Reuters) – Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki, held for 19 months since being arrested on a trip home from Italy, faced trial on Tuesday on charges of spreading false news over an article he wrote about the plight of Egypt’s Christians. Zaki, 30, a graduate student at the University of Bologna, […]
Biden’s Democrats in Congress race to head off shutdown, default
September 28, 2021 By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s Democrats will seek on Tuesday to head off two looming dangers to the U.S. economy as they try to keep government operations funded beyond a Thursday deadline and avoid defaulting on its debt. Democrats had hoped to dispatch both tasks […]
Iran rejects U.S. demand for U.N. inspectors’ access to nuclear site
September 28, 2021 DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran on Tuesday rejected a U.S. call to grant U.N. inspectors access to a nuclear site, saying Washington was not qualified to demand inspections without condemning a sabotage attack on the facility, Iranian state media reported. “Countries that did not condemn terrorist acts against Iran’s nuclear site are not […]
Scuffles in Taiwan parliament, premier blocked from podium in COVID dispute
September 28, 2021 TAIPEI (Reuters) – Lawmakers from Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang (KMT) scuffled with members of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in parliament on Tuesday and stopped the premier from addressing the assembly in a dispute over the COVID-19 pandemic. The KMT has been demanding that Premier Su Tseng-chang apologise for his government’s handling […]
The Taliban vowed no revenge. One Afghan family tells a different story
September 28, 2021 By Rupam Jain (Reuters) – When the Taliban won back control of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar last month, they set out to settle a score with an old foe. As they searched for prominent local politician Ajmal Omar – who had helped drive the militants out of a Nangarhar district […]
Defying Delta: Back to school goes better than feared
September 28, 2021 By Michael Erman, Gwladys Fouche and Alistair Smout (Reuters) – School for children in many nations has been underway for more than a month and fears the Delta coronavirus variant would derail in-person learning have largely proven unfounded. In a dozen countries with high vaccination rates in Asia, Europe and the United […]
U.S. deports convicted Russian hacker to Russia -TASS
September 28, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian hacker, sentenced in June 2020 to nine years in a U.S. jail for cyber crimes, was detained at a Moscow airport on Tuesday after being deported by the United States, the TASS news agency quoted Russia’s Interior Ministry as saying. Alexei Burkov was jailed by the United […]
France cuts back visas for Maghreb nationals over immigration policy
September 28, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – France will slash the number of visas available to nationals from Maghreb countries because of their governments’ refusal to take back illegal migrants sent home by the French authorities, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday. Immigration is becoming a key campaign issue for the French presidential election set […]
EU set to remove Seychelles from tax haven blacklist – documents
September 28, 2021 By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union finance ministers are set to remove the Seychelles, Dominica and Anguilla from the bloc’s blacklist of tax havens next week, documents seen by Reuters indicate, while Panama has failed in its request to be delisted. The list was established in 2017 to counter widespread […]
AUKUS submarine deal ‘very tricky’ for nuclear inspectors -IAEA chief
September 28, 2021 By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – The head of the United Nations atomic agency has said the AUKUS deal in which Australia will obtain nuclear submarine technology from the United States is a “very tricky” issue in terms of inspections but in can be managed. The submarine deal is part of a […]
Commission chief tells Albania: your future is in the EU
September 28, 2021 TIRANA (Reuters) – Albania belongs in the European Union in the future and it is up to the European Union to start membership talks, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday during a trip to the region. “Albania’s future is in the European Union,” she said after she visited […]
Japan to end COVID-19 state of emergency on Thursday
September 28, 2021 By Kantaro Komiya and Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will lift a coronavirus state of emergency in all regions on Thursday for the first time in nearly six months, as the number of new cases and deaths falls and the strain on the medical system eases, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said. Even […]
Mali junta wiping its feet on blood of French soldiers, says angry France
September 28, 2021 By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Armed Forces Minister defended her country’s counter-terrorism role in Mali and accused the military junta of hypocrisy, bad faith and wanting to delay a transition to democracy after its prime minister said Paris was abandoning it. Relations between France and its former colony have soured […]
Thai volunteer takes to skies to drop supplies to flood victims
September 28, 2021 BANGKOK (Reuters) – A paramotoring enthusiast in northern Thailand has taken to the skies to help deliver urgently need supplies to people cut off by floods. Thrill-seeker Vichai Tiyasan, 38, has been motoring over waterlogged lands to drop off dry food and essential items in Sukhothai, one of 30 provinces impacted by […]
