(Reuters) -Australia rode Travis Head’s blistering 140 to post 337 and reduced India to 128-5 to stay on course for a series-levelling victory in the day-night second test on Saturday. Head smashed a swashbuckling hundred to fetch Australia a first innings lead of 157 at his home ground the Adelaide Oval. Australia’s pace battery further …
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DOHA (Reuters) – BRICS countries have no interest in weakening the U.S. dollar at all, India’s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said at an event in Qatar’s capital Doha on Saturday. His remarks came a week after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump had demanded that BRICS member countries, which include major emerging economies like India, Russia and …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s opposition-led parliament on Saturday rejected a bill proposing a special investigation into first lady Kim Keon Hee, a televised parliament session showed. (Reporting by Joyce Lee, Cynthia Kim; Editing by William Mallard)
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s ruling party lawmakers on Saturday decided to oppose an impeachment vote of President Yoon Suk Yeol and a special counsel investigation bill on the first lady, local Yonhap News reported. Opposition parties will need a handful of votes from Yoon’s party to pass the impeachment bill brought on by the …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Chugoku Electric Power on Saturday restarted its Shimane nuclear power station in western Japan, shuttered since shortly after the 2011 Fukushima meltdown, the company said. The long-delayed restart of the 820 plant’s megawatt (MW) No. 2 reactor, which was shut down in January 2012, boosts the number of Japan’s operational reactors …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s central bank resumed buying gold for its reserves in November after a six-month pause, official data by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) showed on Saturday. The PBOC was the world’s largest official sector buyer of gold in 2023. Resumption of its purchases may support Chinese investor demand which was muted …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday apologised for causing a public stir by declaring martial law and promised there will not be a second martial law declaration, he said in a televised address. (Reporting by Cynthia Kim; Editing by Michael Perry)
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s parliament will proceed with the re-vote of the special counsel act regarding first lady Kim Keon Hee at 5 p.m. (0800 GMT) before putting the impeachment bill of President Yoon Suk Yeol to a vote, local Yonhap News said. (Reporting by Cynthia Kim; Editing by Sandra Maler)
By David Shepardson and Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year or face a ban. The decision is a major win for the Justice Department and opponents of the …
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By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the State Department and “deep state” elements in the U.S. of trying to destabilise India in conjunction with a group of investigative journalists and opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. The accusation comes as a surprise as New Delhi and …
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