By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) -Oil prices settled lower on Thursday but rebounded from earlier losses after the U.S. and Iran both denied a report that they were close to a nuclear deal. Oil fell by more than $3 on the report that the U.S. would give Iran sanctions relief to export oil in return for…
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – Britain and the United States backed a new “Atlantic Declaration” on Thursday for greater cooperation on pressing economic challenges in areas like clean energy, critical minerals and artificial intelligence. The joint declaration described the partnership as the “first of its kind” in covering the broad spectrum of the two countries’ economic, technological,…
By Abigail Summerville and Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. grains merchant Bunge Ltd is putting the final touches on a deal to merge with Glencore Plc-backed peer Viterra and create an agricultural trading giant worth more than $30 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The deal, whose terms…
By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar fell on Thursday after data showed that U.S. jobless claims rose more than expected in the latest week, though the market was generally viewed as consolidating ahead of key inflation data and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision next week. The number of Americans filing new…
By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis spent a restful first day after abdominal surgery and his post-operative recovery was proceeding as expected, with bloodwork and respiratory levels stable, the Vatican said on Thursday. The 86-year-old pope is on a liquid diet and was well enough to receive communion and make a telephone call, said…
PARIS (Reuters) – The French economy is on course to eke out meagre growth in the second quarter as industrial and service activity picks up, the central bank said on Thursday in its monthly business climate report. The euro zone’s second-biggest economy is set to grow 0.1% in the April through June period from the…
By Tatiana Gomozova and Alexander Paramoshin RAZUMNOYE, Russia (Reuters) – Irina Markevich used to sleep in summer with her windows and balcony open at night. Nowadays she shuts them before going to bed in order to block out the sound of explosions. The blasts – some distant, some uncomfortably close – have become a daily…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – One of Russia’s longest-serving and most respected human rights campaigners went on trial on Thursday, facing the prospect of three years in jail if convicted of repeatedly discrediting Russia’s armed forces, his organisation said. Oleg Orlov has since 1999 been one of the leaders of Memorial, which won a share of the…
By Dominique Vidalon and Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) – A trio of French businessmen readied on Thursday to make a new offer for debt-laden supermarket chain Casino after exclusive tie-up talks between Casino and smaller retail rival Teract collapsed. In a joint statement, telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel, investment banker Matthieu Pigasse and entrepreneur Moez-Alexandre Zouari…
By Viktoriia Lakezina and Max Hunder KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) -Hundreds of Ukrainians were rescued from rooftops on Thursday, two days after waters from a huge breached dam submerged villages, fields and roads in the southern region of Kherson, as Kyiv dismissed reports its counteroffensive had begun. Drone video showed areas where often only the roofs…
