(Reuters) – – In York, Pennsylvania, a man accosted a group of people rallying for Vice President Kamala Harris’ White House campaign, punching a 74-year-old man in the head and calling another man a “n— supporter” as he fled. In northern Michigan, an assailant enraged by his hatred of Donald Trump used an all-terrain vehicle …
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KUPPENHEIM, Germany (Reuters) -German automakers should not be afraid of competition from China, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday at the opening of Mercedes-Benz’s first battery recycling plant, an investment he described as part of Germany’s new industrial policy agenda. “Some say that China can do much better with electric motors than us,” Scholz said. …
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By Lewis Jackson CANBERRA (Reuters) -King Charles was accused of “genocide” by an Indigenous senator at Australia’s Parliament House on Monday, moments after he delivered a speech in which he paid his “respects to the traditional owners of the lands”. Charles, on his 16th official visit to Australia and his first major foreign trip since …
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By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland ATLANTA/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -With the U.S. presidential election just over two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited two churches on Sunday while her Republican rival, Donald Trump, visited another kind of American temple: a McDonald’s, where he again accused Harris of lying about having previously worked at the fast-food chain. …
By Tom Balmforth and Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) -A slim majority of 50.39% voted “yes” in Moldova’s crunch referendum on European Union accession, preliminary results showed, after President Maia Sandu said that Sunday’s twin votes had been marred by “unprecedented” outside interference. The knife-edge finish – with fewer than 1% of ballots still to be …
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By Casey Hall SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s second-hand and grey markets for luxury goods are booming, as price hikes from luxury brands in a weak economy are prompting some shoppers to look for cheaper ways to buy them, deepening concerns for the likes of LVMH. LVMH, the world’s biggest luxury group, reported a 3% fall …
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(Reuters) – New York-based insurer MetLife Inc is in advanced talks to buy PineBridge Investments’ assets outside of China in a deal that could be valued at $1 billion to $1.5 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. The talks are exclusive for assets under management worth about $100 billion, the report said, citing sources. PineBridge …
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish oil major Repsol has put on hold planned green hydrogen projects in Spain with an electrolysis capacity of 350 megawatts (MW) due to an unfavourable regulatory environment, a spokesperson told Reuters on Monday. The company had already warned that regulatory uncertainty, including the possibility that a windfall tax on energy companies …
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s central bank conducted its first operations on Monday under a swap facility designed to bolster the stock market, exchanging assets worth 50 billion yuan ($7 billion) with brokerages, fund companies and insurers. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said 20 institutions participated in the swap operations with a fee rate of 20 …
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By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, has died. He was 83. Herkul, a website which publishes Gulen’s sermons, said on its X account …
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