September 17, 2021 By Alasdair Pal (Reuters) – Workers in the Afghan capital Kabul replaced signs for the country’s women’s ministry with those for the Taliban’s moral police on Friday, as female former employees of the department said they had been locked out of the building. A sign for the building was covered by a […]
Somalia’s president berates Djibouti for detaining his security adviser
September 17, 2021 MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Friday accused neighbouring Djibouti of illegally detaining his national security adviser, a criticism which appeared linked to a destabilising row between the president and his prime minister. Djiboutian authorities held the adviser, Fahad Yasin, preventing him from travelling to Mogadishu by air, the […]
Erdogan and Putin to discuss Syria in Sochi – Turkish officials
September 17, 2021 By Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Russia later this month for talks with President Vladimir Putin about the violence in northwestern Syria, where Moscow and Ankara back opposing sides, two Turkish officials said on Friday. Turkey supports fighters who sought to topple President Bashar al-Assad, while […]
Google reportedly plans to add free channels to its smart TV platform
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EasyJet shareholder Stelios Haji-Ioannou shuns rights issue -source
September 17, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – EasyJet’s biggest shareholder, the family of founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has decided not to participate in the British airline’s 1.2 billion pound rights issue and has sold its rights to buy new shares, a source familiar with the situation said. The Haji-Ioannou family has sold 76.3 million nil paid rights […]
Bad for business: World Bank China rigging scandal rattles investors
September 17, 2021 By Tom Arnold and Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Economists at investment funds expressed dismay on Friday at revelations that World Bank leaders put “undue pressure” on staff to boost China’s ranking in its influential “Doing Business 2018” report, and the series’ subsequent cancellation. They said the World Bank’s discontinuation of the […]
Regional powers at summit demand U.S. fund Afghan aid
September 17, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia, China, Pakistan and other regional states called on the United States on Friday to engage with the Taliban and fund aid to Afghanistan, though they also urged the former insurgents to yield power to a more inclusive government. The fate of Afghanistan dominated a summit of the Shanghai […]
Swiss impose new COVID-19 testing requirements for some travellers
September 17, 2021 ZURICH (Reuters) – Travellers entering Switzerland who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 or recovered from the virus will need to provide a negative test result from Monday, the government said on Friday, as it seeks to stem a further spike in infections. “The Federal Council wants to prevent an increase in […]
European fund giant Amundi says has $25 million China Evergrande exposure
September 17, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s biggest asset manager Amundi’s exposure to troubled Chinese property giant China Evergrade Group is currently $25 million, less than 10% of what it was earlier in the year, a spokesman for $2 trillion fund firm told Reuters on Friday. EMAXX data, which provides details of funds’ holdings based […]
ECB faces call to end private meetings after Lane leak
September 17, 2021 By Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Central Bank is facing a call to stop the practice of holding closed-door meetings with the private sector after ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane reportedly disclosed an unpublished inflation forecast at one such event. The Financial Times reported on Thursday that Lane had revealed in […]
West African bloc resorts to sanctions over Guinea and Mali coups
September 17, 2021 By Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) -West Africa’s main regional bloc on Thursday imposed sanctions against the junta in Guinea and those slowing Mali’s post-coup transition – its toughest response yet to a run of military takeovers. The move was agreed at an emergency summit of the Economic Community of West African States […]
Mexican president says to speak with Biden about climate change
September 17, 2021 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would be speaking with his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden on Friday morning about climate change on a conference call. Lopez Obrador made the announcement at a regular government news conference. (Reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky) Source Link […]
Canada’s Trudeau hammers main election rival’s COVID-19 approach
September 17, 2021 By Steve Scherer MONTREAL (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seeking to carve out a lead ahead of Monday’s election, accused his main rival on Thursday of showing weak leadership in the fight against COVID-19. Opinion polls show Trudeau’s center-left Liberals effectively tied with the right-of-center Conservatives led by Erin O’Toole and […]
U.N. envoy of ousted Afghan government asks to keep New York seat
September 17, 2021 By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. ambassador representing Afghanistan’s ousted government has asked to remain in the country’s seat at the world body in New York, a U.N. spokesperson said on Friday, setting up a showdown if the Taliban tries to appoint their own envoy. Ambassador Ghulam Isaczai signed […]
Ivory Coast and Ghana presidents in Guinea to meet with sanctions-hit junta
September 17, 2021 CONAKRY (Reuters) -A delegation of West African leaders arrived in Guinea on Friday, a day after the regional bloc imposed sanctions the country’s new military leaders for ousting President Alpha Conde in a Sept. 6 coup. Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara and Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo were met on a plane-side red […]
Iran joins expanding Asian security body led by Moscow, Beijing
September 17, 2021 (Reuters) – Iran joined a rapidly expanding central Asian security body led by Russia and China on Friday, calling on the countries in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to help it form a mechanism to avert sanctions imposed by the West. The body, formed in the 2001 as a talking shop for Russia, […]
World needs to spend another $100 trln on U.N. fight against global woes – report
September 17, 2021 By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – Global goals tackling poverty, inequality, injustice and climate change face a $100 trillion funding shortfall and are likely to be missed unless 10% of global economic output is directed to the U.N. targets every year to 2030, a report on Friday said. The U.N.’s Sustainable Development […]
Defy Partners leads $3M round into sales intelligence platform Aircover
Aircover raised $3 million in seed funding to continue developing its real-time sales intelligence platform. Defy Partners led the round with participation from Firebolt Ventures, Flex Capital, Ridge Ventures and a group of angel investors. The company, headquartered in the Bay Area, aims to give sales teams insights relevant to closing the sale as they […]
Ketch raises another $20M as demand grows for its privacy data control platform
Six months after securing a $23 million Series A round, Ketch, a startup providing online privacy regulation and data compliance, brought in an additional $20 million in A1 funding, this time led by Acrew Capital. Returning with Acrew for the second round are CRV, super{set} (the startup studio founded by Ketch’s co-founders CEO Tom Chavez […]
Slower growth, high inflation make awkward reading for Bank of England
September 17, 2021 By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England rate-setters who may be tempted to vote next week for an early end to their COVID-19 stimulus plans are likely to hold off for now, with a slowing economy but surging inflation making for a tricky backdrop. Last month, Michael Saunders was the only […]
