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Turkey inflation hit 68.5% ahead of election blow to ruling party
By Ezgi Erkoyun ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's annual inflation rate climbed to 68.5% in March, data showed on Wednesday, underscoring a major reason for the massive losses sustained by President Tayyi...
Apr 03, 2024
Euro zone inflation unexpectedly eases, boosting rate cut case
By Balazs Koranyi FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation fell unexpectedly last month, solidifying the case for the European Central Bank to start lowering borrowing costs from record highs. Consum...
Apr 03, 2024
Norway's parliament receives bomb threat, police say
OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's parliament received a bomb threat on Wednesday and police ramped up security around the building, the Oslo police said. Members of parliament continued their deliberations, pa...
Apr 03, 2024
Hong Kong Feb retail sales up 1.9% as tourism continues recovery
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's February retail sales rose 1.9% from a year earlier, helped by the continued recovery of handling capacity and revival in tourism, government data showed on Wednesday...
Apr 03, 2024
Biden and Senator Sanders to highlight efforts lower cost of asthma inhalers
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will host a White House event with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to highlight their efforts to cut the cost of inhalers for asthma su...
Apr 03, 2024
Pope deplores deaths in Gaza and Ukraine from 'folly of war'
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a fresh appeal for peace in Gaza and Ukraine, deploring the killing of aid workers in an Israeli airstrike and paying tribute to a Ukrainian s...
Apr 03, 2024
Cyprus seeks EU help to curb surge of Syrian refugees from Lebanon
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus appealed on Wednesday for vigorous action from the EU to stem a recent tide of mostly Syrian refugees arriving by sea via Lebanon, saying the island's reception capacity was...
Apr 03, 2024
China scraps mandates on down payments for personal car loans
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank on Wednesday unveiled revisions to car loans, scrapping mandates on the lowest down payments on loans granted to borrowers buying new cars for private use. Fin...
Apr 03, 2024
Uganda top court declines to block Anti-Homosexuality law but sees rights infringed
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's constitutional court on Wednesday declined to nullify or suspend an Anti-Homosexuality law that prescribes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, but found it incons...
Apr 03, 2024
Analysis-With wary eye, China courts Indonesia's incoming leader Prabowo
By Stanley Widianto and Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) - Soon after Indonesia's incoming leader Prabowo Subianto won the February presidential election, the Chinese embassy in Jakarta sent him a cat...
Apr 03, 2024
