By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s economic growth is less than 2% this year and remains 8 percentage points below pre-pandemic levels, while production in sectors such as agriculture, mining and manufacturing was further behind, Economy Minister Alejandro Gil said on Saturday. Speaking before the country’s parliament, Gil said the primary sector, which includes…
By Matt McKnight (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift fans descended on Seattle on Saturday ahead of the pop star’s “The Eras Tour”, her latest stop in tourism-boosting concerts across the United States. Throngs of fans lined up to purchase T-shirts and other merchandise outside Lumen Field, where the mega-star will perform on…
(Reuters) -A Russian war reporter was killed and three were wounded in Ukraine on Saturday in what the defence ministry said was a Ukrainian attack using cluster munitions, prompting outrage from Moscow. In a separate incident, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle said one of its journalists, Yevgeny Shilko, had been wounded elsewhere in Ukraine in a…
By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia’s government halted a music festival in the capital Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, a day after the frontman of British pop rock band The 1975 kissed a male bandmate onstage and criticised the country’s anti-LGBT laws. “There will be no compromise against any party that challenges, disparages and violates…
By Rachel Nostrant and Julia Harte (Reuters) – Matthew Keith bought his first Barbie dolls in the 1970s using his allowance money, hiding them from his parents for fear they would say the toys were not masculine enough. Today, 22 feet of bookshelves in his Los Angeles home are filled with his Barbie collection, worth…
In the midst of the AI-driven technology stock surge of 2023, Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been enjoying quite a ride. However, the company’s inflated valuation is raising eyebrows in some quarters. The investment research firm New Constructs, led by its CEO David Trainer, proposes a startling analysis: according to them, the valuation…
In the high-stakes world of big-time investors, a high roller has chosen to gamble on a downward trajectory for Cisco Systems. A thorough analysis of Cisco Systems’ (NASDAQ:CSCO) options trading history unveils a series of 18 unusual transactions. A closer examination of these trades reveals a nearly even split in market sentiment—44% of…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday renewed an attack on the European Union for conducting what he called an “LGBTQ offensive”, saying his nationalist government would protect the country’s Christian roots. In a speech in Romania, Orban – a long-standing critic of Brussels – also said he hoped next year’s European…
LONDON (Reuters) – The failure of Britain’s Labour Party to take former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s old parliamentary seat in an election this week shows the opposition party still has a long way to go to win power, leader Keir Starmer said on Saturday. Labour won a once safe Conservative parliamentary seat in northern England…
MILAN (Reuters) – The European Central Bank (ECB) will ask banks to provide weekly liquidity data from September so that it can carry out more frequent checks on their ability to ward off potential shocks as interest rates rise, the ECB supervisory chief said on Saturday. In an interview published by Milano Finanza, Andrea Enria…
