(This Jan. 2 story has been corrected to show India is a major, not top, crude importer in paragraph 4) (Reuters) – India has raised its windfall tax on petroleum, crude oil and aviation turbine fuel, according to a government order dated Jan. 2. It raised the windfall tax on crude oil to 2,100 rupees …
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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -A steady stream of tens of thousands of people filed into St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday to pay their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI, whose body was laying in state without any papal paraphernalia ahead of his funeral this week. Benedict, a hero to conservative Catholics who yearned …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – A court in Senegal sentenced two lawmakers on Monday to six months in jail for assaulting a pregnant colleague on Dec. 1 during an acrimonious parliamentary session that degenerated into a full-blown brawl. The men, Amadou Niang and Massata Samb of the opposition PUR party, were also ordered to pay a total …
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(Adds full name of acting minister in paragraph 2) By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) – The Taliban administration will encourage self-sufficiency and wants international trade and investment, the acting commerce minister said, as Afghanistan faces isolation and suspension of some humanitarian operations over restrictions on women. “We will start a national self-sufficiency programme, we …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – A teenager accused of attacking three policemen with a machete on New Year’s Eve near Times Square was charged with attempted murder and attempted assault, New York police said on Monday, in an incident the New York Times said was linked to Islamic extremism. The New York City Police Department …
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By Nimesh Vora MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian rupee declined against the U.S. currency on Tuesday, fuelled by the dollar’s surge versus its major peers and importer hedging, though the Reserve bank of India’s likely intervention kept the drop short of the 83-per-dollar mark. The rupee closed at 82.8800 per U.S. dollar, down from 82.7375 …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian shares extended gains for the second session on Tuesday, helped by an uptick in financials on strong quarterly updates. The Nifty 50 index closed 0.19% higher at 18,232.55, while the S&P BSE Sensex rose 0.21% to 61,294.20. The Nifty 50 has seen support at the 100-day moving average (DMA) level and …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s antitrust regulator said it would impose a 2.85 billion won ($2.2 million) fine on Tesla Inc for failing to tell its customers about the shorter driving range of its electric vehicles (EVs) in low temperatures. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said that Tesla had exaggerated the “driving ranges of …
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(This Jan. 2 story has been refiled to change wording in the second paragraph and remove repeated word in the final paragraph) By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Actor Jeremy Renner, who played Hawkeye in the Marvel “Avengers” movies, was in critical but stable condition in a Nevada hospital on Monday, a day after suffering a …
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By Soo-hyang Choi and Trevor Hunnicutt SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is not discussing joint nuclear exercises with South Korea, President Joe Biden said on Monday, contradicting remarks by his South Korean counterpart as tensions flare with North Korea. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol had said that Seoul and Washington are discussing possible joint exercises …
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