TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares climbed to a record high on Wednesday as U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen advocated for a hefty fiscal relief package to help the world's largest economy ride out a pandemic-driven slump. At her confirmation hearing on Tuesday, she said the benefits of a big stimulus package are greater than the expenses of a higher debt burden.
Republican President Donald Trump left Washington on Wednesday ahead of Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, with the Democrat assuming the helm of a country beset by deep political divides and battered by a raging coronavirus pandemic.
President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Tuesday he believed President Donald Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China - even if he did not agree with all his methods - and endorsed the assessment that it was committing genocide in Xinjiang.
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The dollar edged higher against the euro on Wednesday as the risk of extended lockdowns in Europe to combat the spread of COVID-19 and worries about the pace the rollout of vaccines weighed on the common currency.
By Sonali Paul and Shu Zhang MELBOURNE/SINGAPORE, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Wednesday, adding to solid gains overnight, on expectations the incoming U.S. administration will go ahead with massive stimulus spending that would boost fuel demand and draw down crude stocks. U.S.
By Thyagaraju Adinarayan and Saikat Chatterjee LONDON (Reuters) - A 1000% jump in the penny stock of a company with no staff and a high school investing club that doubled its money are just two examples of the big gains to be made from a retail share trading boom that shows no sign of flagging in 2021.
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Converting large areas of land for farming to boost food supplies increases planet-heating emissions and places a greater burden on poorer nations already bearing the brunt of climate change, researchers warned on Tuesday.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Failure to stem climate change poses as serious a global risk as the COVID-19 pandemic, in both the scale of impact and level of threat, top business and other leaders warned on Tuesday.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Joe Biden takes office as U.S. president on Wednesday with a long list of LGBT+ policy pledges - from scrapping Donald Trump's ban on transgender military recruits to passing an anti-discrimination law.
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police in Mumbai have charged nine alleged members of a baby-trafficking ring - among them a nurse at a maternity hospital and agents who operated in the impoverished slums of India's financial capital, officials said on Monday.
CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When tropical storm Chalane threatened Zimbabwe and Mozambique late last year, government authorities and aid agencies sprang into action, having learned lessons from the destruction and loss of life caused by cyclones in 2019.
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Corrects information in sign-off KAMPALA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The United States ambassador in Kampala was blocked by security personnel from visiting opposition leader Bobi Wine at his residence, prompting the mission to call his house arrest a "worrying" sign.
DETROIT (Reuters) - Electric vehicle startup Rivian, which is backed by Amazon and Ford Motor and aims to put an electric pickup and SUV in production this year, said on Tuesday it boosted its war chest further with a $2.65-billion investment round led by T. Rowe Price.
COVID-19 is an unprecedented global health crisis. But it has also been a wake-up call to the risks posed by our destructive relationship with the natural world.
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing U.S agencies to assess any security risks from Chinese-made drones in American government fleets and to prioritize removing them. Trump directed all U.S.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce , CM.TO is expected to show a fall in quarterly revenue when it reports results on February 24 (estimated). * The Toronto, Ontario-based company is expected to report a 2.7% decrease in revenue to $3.695 billion from $ 3.64 billion a year ago, according to the mean estimate of 3 analysts, based on Refinitiv data.
TUNIS, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Libyans working under a U.N. peace process on Tuesday agreed a mechanism to choose a new temporary government to oversee the run-up to elections late this year, in the hope that it can avoid being scuppered by factional rivalries.
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