By Seun Sanni LAGOS (Reuters) -Domestic flights in Nigeria were being disrupted on Monday, local airlines said, as aviation employees in Lagos blocked roads to the country’s busiest local airport to begin a two-day strike in protest over working conditions and wages. The strike is likely to add to problems in a sector that regularly …
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By Herbert Lash and Harry Robertson NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar rose on Monday after New York state factory activity in April increased for the first time in five months, helping bolster expectations the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in May. Also bolstering the dollar was a report showing confidence among U.S. single-family …
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By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices turned lower on Monday as the U.S. dollar strengthened and as investors mulled over a possible May interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve, which could dampen economic recovery hopes. Brent crude futures fell $1.55, or 1.8%, to settle at $84.76 a barrel, while U.S. West …
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By Deep Kaushik Vakil (Reuters) – Gold reversed course to slip below the key $2,000 level on Monday, pressured by a stronger dollar and higher Treasury yields, while investors looked for cues on whether the market will see a ‘one and done’ rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve in May. Spot gold was down …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Republican U.S. congressman Jim Jordan on Monday asked a judge to let a House of Representatives panel’s investigation into the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump proceed, saying a subpoena of a former Manhattan prosecutor was needed by lawmakers as they consider possible legislation. Jordan, chairman of the …
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By Emma Farge and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) -A World Trade Organization panel said on Monday that India had violated global trading rules in a dispute with the European Union, Japan and Taiwan over import duties on IT products. “We recommend that India bring such measures into conformity with its obligations,” the WTO panel’s report …
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By Sheila Dang (Reuters) -Montana lawmakers on Friday passed a bill to ban popular short-form video app TikTok from operating in the state, the latest threat to the Chinese-owned app’s existence in the U.S. The bill, known as SB 419, would prohibit mobile app stores from offering TikTok for download to users in Montana. The …
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By Kylie MacLellan and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is being investigated by parliament’s standards watchdog over whether he properly declared his wife’s shareholding in a childcare company which stands to benefit from new government policy. Parliament’s Commissioner for Standards began the investigation over a “declaration of interest” on April 13, …
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(This April 15 story has been refiled to correct the date in the advisory, attribute the case count to WHO and remove reference to six new cases in the headline) (Reuters) – Six additional laboratory-confirmed cases of Marburg disease have been reported in Equatorial Guinea, bringing the total number to 15, the World Health Organization …
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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An evangelical Christian former mail carrier’s fight with the U.S. Postal Service over his refusal to work on Sundays gives the Supreme Court another chance to widen religious rights but also has led to a debate over whether religious people are more legally deserving than others to weekend days …
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