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Man United not expecting to be as busy in future transfer windows
LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United did more business in the summer transfer window than they anticipated and fans should not expect such a high level of activity for a while, the club's football dir...
Sep 22, 2022
Erdogan says prisoner exchange is important step towards ending Ukraine war
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the prisoner swap carried out by Russia and Ukraine, involving almost 300 people and mediated by Turkey, was an important step towards ending...
Sep 22, 2022
Erdogan says discussed with Putin flights from Russia to northern Cyprus -NTV
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted by broadcaster NTV on Thursday as saying that he discussed the start of direct flights from Russia to northern Cyprus with his Russian ...
Sep 22, 2022
Russian finance ministry seeks to hike oil and gas taxes
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A new Russian draft budget will aim to draw in more funds from oil and gas producers while commodity prices are high, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Thursday, as part of ef...
Sep 22, 2022
S.African repo rate up by 75 bps, now near pre-pandemic level
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa's central bank raised its main lending rate by 75 basis points to 6.25% on Thursday, in a bid to rein in inflation that hiked it nearer to the level seen before th...
Sep 22, 2022
Exxon Mobil shuts Fos-Sur-Mer refinery in France due to strike
By Rowena Edwards (Reuters) - ExxonMobil is gradually shutting down its 235,000 barrel per day (bpd) Fos-Sur-Mer refinery in France as a result of ongoing strike action, the company said in an emailed...
Sep 22, 2022
Factbox-Iran’s Basij force: specialists in cracking down on dissent
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian security forces, including the pro-government Basij militia, are trying to quell growing nationwide protests that erupted after a woman died in the custody of the morality po...
Sep 22, 2022
U.S. current account deficit in shrinks in second quarter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. current account deficit narrowed sharply in the second quarter amid a surge in goods exports, data showed on Thursday. The Commerce Department said that the current acc...
Sep 22, 2022
Macron says he wants to make it easier to build renewable energy projects in France
By Stephane Mahe SAINT-NAZAIRE, France (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said he will cut red tape to halve the time it takes in France to get renewable projects off the ground, stress...
Sep 22, 2022
Bank of England to sell 8.7 billion stg of government bonds in Q4
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England said on Thursday that it would sell around 8.7 billion pounds of government bonds in the final quarter of 2022, becoming the first major central bank to begin ac...
Sep 22, 2022
