By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most famous opposition leader, on Friday shared letters showing how he has poked fun at prison authorities for several months with a host of bizarre requests for a kimono, a balalaika, a beetle and even to keep a kangaroo. The requests were turned down by the…
By Milana Vinn, Abigail Summerville and David Carnevali NEW YORK (Reuters) – Barclays Chief Executive C.S. Venkatakrishnan held a virtual town hall this week to address management changes that have led to about two dozen U.S. investment bankers fleeing in the last few weeks, people familiar with the matter said. The bankers have left for…
By Jessie Pang and Laurie Chen HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) -As restrictions in Hong Kong have snuffed out what were once the largest vigils marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, cities like London, New York, Berlin and Taipei are left carrying the candle to commemorate the June 4 anniversary. Tens of thousands of people have left…
LONDON (Reuters) – A British teenager who detectives believe may have been just hours away from launching an attack on police or soldiers, was on Friday sentenced to a minimum of six years in jail for terrorism offences. Matthew King, 19, who converted to Islam during the COVID-19 lockdown and then became quickly radicalised by…
By Ariba Shahid and Asif Shahzad KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan has passed a special order to allow barter trade with Afghanistan, Iran and Russia for certain goods, including petroleum and natural gas, the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday. Left with barely enough foreign exchange reserves to cover one month’s imports, Pakistan’s government is…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s domestic economy returned to growth in the first three months of the year after a shallow recession, data showed on Friday, and the finance minister said momentum was set to continue as the country hits full employment. Modified domestic demand, the preferred gauge of the Irish economy due to the distorting…
ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank is ready to tighten its monetary policy to combat inflationary pressure, which it sees spreading to other across the Swiss economy, Vice Chairman Martin Schlegel said on Friday. The SNB also stood ready to intervene in the currency markets as necessary to ensure its price stability goal of…
By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday stopped short of approving Deutsche Bank AG’s $75 million settlement with women who said that Jeffrey Epstein abused them, and that the German bank facilitated the late financier’s sex trafficking. At a hearing in Manhattan federal court to consider preliminary approval…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan With the U.S. debt ceiling removed, world markets see the sky again – encouraged that robust U.S. labor markets continue to defy recession fears as interest rates near peaks. May’s U.S. employment report later on Friday now stands as the last…
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) -The economic airplane hasn’t reached the runway yet and has hit some more heavy turbulence in 2023 – but investors suspect a relatively gentle touchdown may be back on the cards. It’s not even midyear yet, but the full gamut of scenarios has been juggled in just five months. World…
