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China to expand scope of legislation targeting money laundering, terrorism financing- PBOC
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank said on Wednesday it will put non-bank payment institutions, internet micro-lenders and consumer finance companies under the scope of anti-money laundering and...
Dec 30, 2020
EU looks to new chapter in relations with Britain as Brexit deal is signed
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - With a call for both sides to look forward to a new chapter in their relationship, EU chiefs signed the Brexit trade deal agreed with Britain and sent the text off to London on We...
Dec 30, 2020
Russia bars more British citizens from entry over Navalny sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had expanded its list of British citizens barred from entering the country in response to what it described as unacceptable and ungrounded sanctions impo...
Dec 30, 2020
FTSE Russell could delete more Chinese firms after U.S. bolsters executive order
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Global index publisher FTSE Russell said it may delete more Chinese companies from its global benchmarks, after the Trump administration on Monday strengthened an executive order ...
Dec 30, 2020
Turkey, U.S. in talks to form joint working group on S-400s, sanctions: minister
ANKARA (Reuters) - Ankara and Washington have started talks to form a joint working group regarding Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400 missile defence systems and the U.S. sanctions stemming from it, ...
Dec 30, 2020
Russian sumo wrestler, once world’s heaviest child, dies aged 21
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian sumo wrestler Dzhambulat Khatokhov, who entered the Guinness World Records as the world's heaviest child in 2003, has died at the age of 21, sports officials in his native r...
Dec 30, 2020
European stocks inch higher as AstraZeneca gains on UK vaccine approval
(Reuters) - European stocks edged higher on Wednesday as Britain approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, while bets of more U.S. fiscal aid and massive vaccination ...
Dec 30, 2020
California nurse tests positive over a week after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine: ABC
(Reuters) - A 45-year-old nurse in California tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after receiving Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, an ABC News affiliate reported https://bit.ly/2L8iBel on T...
Dec 30, 2020
Honda to stop auto sales in Russia in 2022
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian subsidiary of Japan's Honda Motor Co said on Wednesday it would stop supplying new cars to official dealers in Russia in 2022 as part of the company's efforts to restruc...
Dec 30, 2020
Philippine president’s guards used ‘smuggled’ COVID-19 vaccines: minister
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine defence minister said on Wednesday that unapproved COVID-19 vaccines given to President Rodrigo Duterte's military security detail had been smuggled into the country,...
Dec 30, 2020
