By Jennifer Rigby and Emma Farge LONDON (Reuters) -A panel of global health experts will meet on Thursday to decide if COVID-19 is still an emergency under the World Health Organization’s rules, a status that helps maintain international focus on the pandemic. The WHO first gave COVID its highest level of alert on Jan. 30, …
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By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 3.25% as expected on Thursday and signalled more tightening to come as it fights inflation, but slowed the pace of its moves as a peak in rates comes within sight. The central bank for …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Toronto consulate-general said on Thursday that a report of consular officers “coercing” a Canadian lawmaker and his family have “no factual basis and is purely baseless”, adding that Canadian media and politicians have ulterior motives. “We express strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to this,” the consulate-general spokesperson said in a statement, …
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By Anirban Sen and Noel Randewich (Reuters) – PacWest Bancorp said late on Wednesday it was in talks with potential partners and investors about strategic options after shares of the Los Angeles-based lender and several other U.S. regional banks tumbled amid fears of a worsening banking crisis. In a statement, PacWest said it had not …
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(Reuters) – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has written to Michael Roffler, the former chief executive of failed First Republic Bank asking for more information on his and other executives’ pay, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Warren posed a dozen questions to the former CEO, focused on Roffler’s awareness of problems at the bank …
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MANCHESTER (Reuters) -Manchester City’s Erling Haaland scored his record-breaking 35th Premier League goal of a stupendous season to help secure a 3-0 victory against West Ham United that sent his side back to the top of the table on Wednesday. The marauding Norwegian ended some stubborn West Ham resistance when he dinked a delicate chip …
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By Donny Kwok and Georgina Lee HONG KONG (Reuters) – The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) raised its main policy rate on Thursday, following a hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve, even as weakness in its pegged currency forced the de facto central bank to drain cash in the banking system to 15-year lows. Hong …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -Voting opened in local elections on Thursday in the first major electoral test for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak following a year in which the governing Conservatives have suffered a cascade of scandals, strikes and economic chaos. The elections are viewed as one of the last big opportunities …
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By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) -Police have arrested a former U.S. Coast Guardsman suspected of killing one person and wounding four, all of them women, in a shooting on Wednesday at a medical building in Atlanta, then carjacking a vehicle to flee the scene, authorities said. The suspected gunman, identified as Deion Patterson, 24, was …
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By Mohamed Nureldin and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -The United Nations pressed Sudan’s warring factions on Wednesday to guarantee safe passage of humanitarian aid after six trucks were looted and air strikes in the capital undermined a supposed truce. U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said he hoped to have face-to-face meetings with Sudan’s warring parties …
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