(Reuters) -Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has decided to receive hospice care and “spend his remaining time at home with his family” instead of additional medical intervention, the Carter Center said on Saturday. Carter, 98, who has lived longer after leaving the White House than any former president in U.S. history, was a Democrat who …
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By Chen Aizhu and Jing Xu SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China’s commerce ministry has met independent oil refiners to discuss their deals with Russia, five sources with knowledge of the matter said, imports which have saved Chinese buyers billions of dollars. China and India are buying at deep discounts amid Western sanctions on Russian oil and more …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese copper trader Maike Group has submitted a court application to start restructuring, it said on Friday, marking a further low for the company that was once China’s top copper buyer. The application, revealed in a statement published on Maike’s official WeChat account, is one of the steps in a bankruptcy proceeding, said …
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By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s Russian oil imports climbed to a record 1.4 million barrels per day (bpd) in January, up 9.2% from December, with Moscow still the top monthly oil seller to New Delhi, followed by Iraq and Saudi Arabia, data from trade sources showed. Last month Russian oil accounted for about …
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By Arpan Chaturvedi and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) -An Indian investigating agency has accused French spirits group Pernod Ricard in court documents of illegally making profits in India of $23 million by giving false price information and conspiring in an email campaign to sway New Delhi city’s liquor policy. The latest accusations against Pernod …
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By Clodagh Kilcoyne, Henriette Chacar and Marco Trujillo ANTAKYA/KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (Reuters) – Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said a convoy of 14 of its trucks had entered northwestern Syria on Sunday to assist in earthquake rescue operations, as concerns grow over lack of access to the war-ravaged area. The World Food Programme (WFP) has …
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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – The United States held joint air exercises bilaterally with South Korea and Japan involving strategic bombers on Sunday, a day after North Korea fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a “sudden launching drill”. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the exercise, in which South Korea’s F-35A, …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand climbed to 11 on Sunday as thousands of people remained missing a week after the storm struck the country’s North Island. The cyclone hit the island’s northernmost region on Feb. 12 and tracked down the east coast, inflicting widespread devastation. Prime Minister Chris …
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By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – An Israeli rocket strike early on Sunday hit a building in the central Damascus neighbourhood of Kafr Sousa, near a heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations, killing five people, witnesses and officials said. The strike, a rare one aimed at a residential area in the heart of …
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(This Feb. 18 story has been corrected to fix the family name to Li, not Lu, in paragraphs 2 and 3) TAIPEI (Reuters) – A group of Chinese officials arrived in Taiwan on Saturday on the first visit in three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, to attend a cultural event at a time of …
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