Senators meeting with Manchin on voting rights bills -Schumer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Democrats are continuing to press the holdouts in their party to embrace voting rights bills, and a group planned to meet with one of them, Senator Joe
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Fed’s Kashkari, citing inflation risks, sees 2 rate hikes this year
(Reuters) -Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari on Tuesday said he expects the U.S. central bank to need to raise interest rates two times this year, reversing his long-held
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Google buys Israeli security startup Siemplify for $500 million
By Krystal Hu and Eva Mathews (Reuters) -Alphabet Inc-owned Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) said on Tuesday its cloud division had acquired Israeli cybersecurity startup Siemplify, as the U.S. tech giant expands its
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Australia COVID-19 cases surge, overloading testing system
By Renju Jose and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian COVID-19 cases soared to a pandemic record on Tuesday as the Omicron variant ripped through most of the country, driving up
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Drivers trapped for hours in cars after U.S. snowstorm shuts Virginia highway
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thousands of people were stranded in their vehicles for hours overnight along a nearly 50-mile (80-kilometer) stretch of Interstate 95 in Virginia after a storm
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Asian Stocks Mixed, Trades Thin as Many Markets Remain Closed
By Gina Lee Investing.com – Asia Pacific stocks were mixed on Monday morning, with trade razor thin on the first trading day of 2022 for some markets. South Korea’s KOSPI
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Twitter permanently bans U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Twitter Inc on Sunday said it permanently banned the personal account of Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for tweets that repeatedly violated the social
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Oil starts new year on positive note, pandemic worries curb gains
By Mohi Narayan and Naveen Thukral NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Oil prices firmed on Monday as the market kicked off 2022 on a positive note with suppliers in focus ahead
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Turkish inflation seen above 30% in December amid lira weakness
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey’s annual inflation rate is expected to have hit 30.6% in December, according to a Reuters poll, breaching the 30% level for the first time since 2003 as
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Oil Up, but COVID-19-fuelled Fuel Demand Worries Cap Gains
By Gina Lee Investing.com – Oil was up on Monday morning in Asia, as Libyan tightened supplies ahead of an Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies (OPEC+) meeting.