By Georgina Lee HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong interbank rates rose across all tenors on Friday, with the overnight interbank offered rate rising the most, climbing to the highest in four weeks. The overnight Hong Kong interbank offered rate (Hibor) jumped 63.5 basis points (bps) to 4.88%. One-week Hibor rose 62 bps to 4.92%,…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico and the European Union agreed to quickly finalize an updated free trade deal, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday in a post on social media after meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Both sides aim to sign a deal by the end of the year, according…
SEOUL (Reuters) – A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine has arrived at a port in the South Korean city of Busan, the South Korean military said on Friday. It is the first time in nearly six years that a submarine classified as “SSGN” by the U.S. Navy, or a cruise-missile submarine, has stopped off in South Korea….
(Reuters) – A judge in Argentina sent arrest warrants to Interpol for four Lebanese men suspected of involvement in the 1994 truck bomb attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, local and international media reported on Thursday. Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas issued the warrants for the four suspects, three…
By Soo-hyang Choi and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has recovered from the sea part of a rocket used in North Korea’s failed attempt to launch its first military satellite last month, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Friday. The announcement came about two weeks after North Korea unsuccessfully tried to launch…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will speed up the process to allow private firms to access infrastructure of major national scientific research projects and will encourage private businesses to participate in key supply chain projects, a state planner spokesperson said on Friday. Private fixed-asset investment shrank 0.1% in the first five months of the year, a…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Thursday urged Congress to pass a law that would provide a pathway to U.S. citizenship for young people brought to the country illegally as children, using a White House movie night to underscore his support for Latinos. Biden and his wife, Jill, hosted a showing of “Flamin’ Hot,”…
(Reuters) – The U.S. on Thursday condemned “in the strongest terms” what it called human rights violations, abuses and “horrific violence” in Sudan during that country’s two-month-old war, a State Department spokesperson said. The U.S. is especially concerned about reports of ethnic violence committed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias in…
(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has entered into a $15 million agreement with the U.S. unit of Australian miner Jervois Global Ltd to conduct feasibility studies on expanding cobalt extraction in Idaho, to decrease reliance on overseas mineral sources. The agreement will enable Jervois Mining USA to undertake mineral resource drilling to expand…
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – A New York ethics board on Thursday ordered former Mayor Bill de Blasio to pay a record $474,794 for using city funds for a security detail during his long-shot 2019 presidential campaign, finding that he violated conflict of interest laws. The city’s Conflicts of Interest Board said de Blasio had…
