By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – The Olivier Awards for theatre were handed out in London on Sunday, with “My Neighbour Totoro” winning the most prizes. Below is a list of winners in the key categories. BEST NEW PLAY “Prima Facie” BEST NEW MUSICAL “Standing at the Sky’s Edge” BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL Rodgers & Hammerstein’s …
By Selena Li HONG KONG (Reuters) -HSBC Holdings PLC on Monday pushed aside a proposal by an activist shareholder in Hong Kong to spin off its mainstay Asia business, reiterating the adverse impact on the Asia-focussed bank’s cost and clients. Addressing an informal meeting of shareholders in Hong Kong, its biggest market, HSBC Chairman Mark …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan and China must do everything possible to avoid war and it is the responsibility of both sides’ leaders to ensure peace, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou told a senior Chinese official on Thursday. Ma arrived in China on Monday, the first time a former or sitting Taiwanese president has visited the country …
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By Jonathan Allen and Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City police have thrown up metal barriers around Trump Tower and blocked roads near Manhattan Criminal Courthouse as they brace for potential protests ahead of Donald Trump’s expected surrender to prosecutors on Tuesday. The former president is due to be arraigned at the …
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By Anushka Trivedi MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian rupee fell against the U.S. dollar on Monday, as an unexpected output cut by oil producing club OPEC+ sent crude prices higher and weighed on Asian currencies. The rupee ended the day at 82.3325 per dollar, as compared to its previous close of 82.1650. The announcement from …
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By Bharath Rajeswaran BENGALURU (Reuters) – Fresh worries about inflation and the OPEC+’s move to cut more production capped gains for Indian shares, which were just starting to shake off fears of a contagion in global banking. The Nifty 50 index closed 0.22% higher at 17,398.05 on Monday. The S&P BSE Sensex rose 0.19% to …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A social media influencer who once had 58,000 Twitter followers was convicted by a federal jury of election interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race over a voter suppression scheme, the Justice Department said late on Friday. Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was convicted of the charge …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Many Republicans in the U.S. Congress have responded to Donald Trump’s looming Tuesday arraignment by characterizing the criminal justice system as corrupt, in accusations that parallel their earlier broadsides against the nation’s elections after the former president’s 2020 defeat. Trump and his allies in the House of Representatives …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – The navies of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan will hold two days of anti-submarine exercises starting Monday to better counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile capabilities, South Korea’s defence ministry said. The drills will be staged in international waters off South Korea’s southern island of Jeju, involving a U.S. carrier …
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By Laurie Chen, Kiyoshi Takenaka and Sakura Murakami BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi met his Chinese counterpart on Sunday and urged Beijing to promptly release a detained Japanese national. Hayashi’s meeting with Qin Gang was the first visit to Beijing for a Japanese foreign minister in over three years, as the two …
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