Analysis-Jet orders boom as airlines fear shortage
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) – Planemakers can’t build them but airlines can’t stop buying them. Even as they wrestle…
Politics
With UK food price inflation at 46-year high, lawmakers launch probe
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmakers launched an investigation on Friday into the fairness of the country’s food…
Rights watchdog denounces Italy immigration law as ‘inhumane’
ROME (Reuters) – A new Italian law that narrows asylum rights in an effort to dissuade migrants from heading to…
Embattled Thai PM Prayuth fights to stay on in vote on Sunday
By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is lagging behind the opposition…
Investors buckle up for pivotal Turkey elections
By Marc Jones and Canan Sevgili LONDON (Reuters) -Wild currency moves? Bazooka rate hikes? The many unknowns around Turkey’s pivotal…
Marketmind: Debt cap tick-tock leaves eerie calm
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan A strange calm fell over world…
Factbox-Pakistan anti-graft agency that arrested Imran Khan has wide powers
By Asif Shahzad (Reuters) – Created by military dictator late General Pervez Musharraf and currently headed by a retired general,…
Hong Kong Q1 GDP grew 2.7% y/y, sees tourism, consumption driving recovery this year
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong’s economy grew 2.7% in the first quarter from a year earlier, government data showed on…
More than 2 million Toyota users face risk of vehicle data leak in Japan
By Daniel Leussink and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday the vehicle data of 2.15 million…
Ukraine’s anti-graft prosecutor says rule of law trumps trophy convictions
By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s crackdown on corruption has raised eyebrows in recent months by going after respected…