By Hannah McKay MARGATE, England (Reuters) -British street artist Banksy confirmed a new mural showing a 1950s housewife with a swollen eye apparently pushing a man into an abandoned chest freezer was his work early on Valentine’s Day, just hours before the appliance was removed. The artwork, which Banksy titled ‘Valentine’s day mascara’ on his …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Noise produced by mining the seabed for nickel, cobalt and other metals for the green energy transition could interfere with whales’ ability to navigate the ocean depths and communicate with one another, according to a study released on Tuesday. Potato-sized rocks filled with battery metals blanket vast swathes of the ocean floor at …
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By Krishna N. Das and Kylie MacLellan NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) -Indian tax officers searched the BBC’s bureaus in New Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, the British broadcaster said, weeks after the government banned as propaganda a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in riots in 2002. The documentary focused on the Hindu …
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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Monday it had recovered critical electronics from the suspected Chinese spy balloon downed by a U.S. fighter jet off South Carolina’s coast on Feb. 4, including key sensors presumably used for intelligence gathering. “Crews have been able to recover significant debris …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African rand firmed on Tuesday against the U.S. dollar, which fell to a roughly two-week low after data showed U.S. inflation rose at its slowest pace in 16 months. At 1514 GMT, the rand traded at 17.7800 against the dollar, about 0.3% stronger than its previous close. The dollar fell after …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces bombarded Ukrainian troops and towns along front lines in the eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday in what appeared to be early salvoes of a new offensive as Western allies met in Brussels to discuss sending more arms to the Kyiv government. Bakhmut, a city in Donetsk province …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Tuesday set out draft legislation to regulate “buy now pay later” (BNPL) credit, saying the sector posed potential harm to consumers without thorough affordability checks. BNPL companies are largely unregulated and typically offer on-the-spot interest-free short-term loans that spread payments for retail goods like clothing. The sector nearly …
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By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s government named academic Kazuo Ueda as its pick to become next central bank governor, a surprise choice that could heighten the chance of an end to its unpopular yield control policy. Ueda, a 71-year-old former Bank of Japan (BOJ) policy board member, will succeed incumbent Haruhiko …
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(Reuters) – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will delay the maiden launch of its heavy-lift H3 rocket to Feb. 17 from Feb. 15 due to weather conditions, the space agency said on Tuesday. “As a result of today’s weather assessment, it is anticipated that weather conditions on the day of the launch will not be …
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By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England will make its final increase to borrowing costs in the current cycle next month to combat double-digit inflation, according to a Reuters poll which showed the British economy is almost certainly entering a recession. One of the first major central banks to begin lifting interest …
