BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government air strikes hit rebel-held areas north of the city of Homs for a second day, forcing authorities to cancel Friday prayers for the first time in six months, monitors and a doctor there said.
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As a surgeon, one learns to prioritize problems. What is, at one moment, the issue demanding attention can be suddenly supplanted by a more urgent or serious matter. No case of mine (Henri Bianucci) in recent memory exemplifies this better than Brady.
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc's quarterly profit plunged 27 percent as it earned less from trading and investment banking and incurred higher costs related to shrinking some of its businesses.
The Fiat Mobi budget hatchback has been launched in Brazil, with prices starting from R$31,900 (approximately INR 6.08 lakhs). The Mobi, which aims to take on the Renault Kwid in the Brazilian market, comes in six trim levels – Easy, Easy On, Like, Like On, Way and the range-topping Way On, which is priced at R$43,800 (approximately INR 8.35 lakhs). […]
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COLUMBIA — A flurry of legal allegations filed at the S.C. Supreme Court on Friday accuse the Attorney General’s Office of ignoring — and then interfering — in the Statehouse corruption probe.
COLUMBIA - A flurry of legal allegations filed at the S.C. Supreme Court today accuse the Attorney General's office of ignoring - and then interfering - in the Statehouse corruption probe as both sides unloaded ahead of their courtroom showdown over who is in charge.
As the Panama Papers claim another political scalp - with the resignation of Spain's Industry Minister - Europe's biggest nations launch a joint effort to clamp down on tax evasion. How effective will it be? Grace Pascoe reports.
As the Panama Papers claim another political scalp - with the resignation of Spain's Industry Minister - Europe's biggest nations launch a joint effort to clamp down on tax evasion. How effective will it be? Grace Pascoe reports.
April 15 (Reuters) - A leading advisory firm urged shareholders to reject the pay plans of mining giant Anglo American at its annual meeting, saying the firm had not gone far enough to curb remuneration after a collapse in commodity prices.
April 15 (Reuters) - A leading advisory firm urged shareholders to reject the pay plans of mining giant Anglo American at its annual meeting, saying the firm had not gone far enough to curb remuneration after a collapse in commodity prices.
South Carolinians came into the job market in record numbers in March, and the surge led the state’s unemployment rate to its first increase in more than a year.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptian protesters angered by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's decision to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia called on Friday for the downfall of the government, chanting a powerful slogan used in a 2011 uprising.
April 15 (Reuters) - Troubled solar energy company SunEdison Inc said on Friday it was in talks for potential debtor-in-possession financing with some of its first and second-lien lenders.
LONDON (Reuters) - British flyweight Nicola Adams, the first female boxer to win an Olympic title, secured her place at the Rio Games on Friday by reaching the final in her weight division at a European qualifying event in Turkey.
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - Financial leaders from the Group of 20 major economies scrambled on Friday for a way to keep global growth from stalling amid concerns about a drop-off in international trade and the waning effectiveness of loose monetary policy.
OXFORD, England, April 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - G rowing global wealth inequality is becoming a fundamental risk to democracy and to economies around the world as more people feel government rules "rigged" in favour of the rich leave them with few options, investors and governance experts said Friday.
BELGRADE, April 15 (Reuters) - An Abu Dhabi developer began building a 160-metre-high riverside tower in Belgrade on Friday that will be the centrepiece of an estimated $3 billion dollar residential, office and tourism complex that has drawn criticism from some city residents.
LONDON (Reuters) - Michael Saunders, a veteran economist with Citi, will become one of the nine interest-rate setters at the Bank of England, Britain's finance ministry said on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Friday it will begin relocating 10,000 Mozambican refugees to better facilities within Malawi, the neighbouring state they have fled to in a bid to escape renewed fighting in their homeland.
LONDON (Reuters) - British police have arrested five people on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism as part of an investigation which a security source said was linked to the attacks in Paris and Brussels.
Mungesa e përkushtimit të institucioneve kompetente, mbivendosja e mekanizmave në luftën kundër korrupsionit dhe sistemi i dobët i drejtësisë janë tre faktorët kryesore që ndikojnë në shkallën e lartë të korrupsionit në Kosovë, thonë përfaqësues të shoqërisë civile.
