By running Aleppo, Syrian rebels seek to show they are alternative to Assad

By Karam al-Masri and Maya Gebeily ALEPPO (Reuters) – A week after Islamist rebels seized Syria’s second-largest city, in a surprise advance deep into government-held territory, Aleppo is slowly coming back to life.  A night-time curfew has lifted. Bread has returned to bakery shelves. Traffic police wave cars through intersections and internet coverage has improved …

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US and Canadian climbers missing on New Zealand mountain believed dead, police say

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Three climbers from the United States and Canada who went missing on New Zealand’s highest mountain last week are believed to have died, police said on Friday. U.S. nationals Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and a Canadian man whom police have not named, flew by helicopter on Saturday to a …

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India cenbank takes steps to increase forex inflows to boost struggling rupee

By Nimesh Vora NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of India on Friday raised the interest rate ceiling that banks can offer for foreign currency non-resident (FCNR-B) deposits to boost forex inflows at a time when the currency has been regularly hitting all-time lows. A FCNR-B is a term deposit account that non-resident Indians …

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Vietnam’s soaring US trade surplus stokes new fears of Trump tariffs

By Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam is vulnerable to becoming the new Trump administration’s next target for tariffs as data shows its trade surplus with the United States ballooning, industry executives and analysts said. The Communist-run country, home to large industrial operations of U.S. multinationals such as Apple, Google, Nike and Intel, has the …

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Pakistan’s jailed former PM Imran Khan threatens civil disobedience movement

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on his supporters to hold a rally next week and threatened to start a civil disobedience movement days after his party led a deadly protest march in Islamabad. In a post on X on Thursday, Khan asked supporters to converge …

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UK ‘will think carefully’ on retaliating if hit by Trump tariffs, business minister tells FT

(Reuters) -Britain will think very carefully about retaliating if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration hits the country with fresh tariffs, the country’s business and trade minister Jonathan Reynolds told the FT in an interview published on Friday. Trump has floated blanket tariffs of 10% 20% on virtually all imports when he returns to the …

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