December 2022

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Former Pope Benedict is in a “stable” condition, the Vatican said on Friday, amid continued concern for the health of the 95-year-old retired pontiff. Benedict had …

By Ritsuko Shimizu and Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese insurers are expected to maintain marine war insurance, which covers the sinking and requisition of ships due to war in …

By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) – Industrial metals markets hoping for improving demand and a price rally may have to wait a few more months with the headwinds of slow …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines was up and running on a normal schedule on Friday after a massive winter storm crippled operations this week and exposed problems at the low-cost …

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) -China’s securities regulator said on Friday that online brokerages Futu Holding and UP Fintech Holding have conducted unlawful securities businesses, and will be banned from opening new …

By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) -The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex, Arkady Volozh, said goodbye in an internal message to staff on Friday ahead of a corporate restructuring that …

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping told Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday that the road to peace talks on Ukraine would not be smooth and that China would …

By Brijesh Patel (Reuters) – Oil prices are set for small gains in 2023 as a darkening global economic backdrop and COVID-19 flare-ups in China threaten demand growth and offset …

(Reuters) – Global equity funds posted net outflows for an eighth straight week in the seven days to Dec. 28 as a stronger than expected U.S. GDP reading raised worries …

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Trillions of dollars wiped off world stocks, bond market tantrums, whip-sawing currency and commodities and the collapse of a few crypto empires – 2022 …

ROME (Reuters) – An Italian theatre on Friday called off a show by a prominent Russian dancer who has three tattoos of President Vladimir Putin on his chest and shoulders, …

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank said on Friday it will step up implementation of its “prudent” monetary policy to support the economy hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping liquidity …

By Doina Chiacu and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Southwest Airlines promised to reimburse passengers for expenses such as hotels and car rentals in addition to refunding tickets after it canceled …

(Reuters) -Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted of five counts of corruption on Friday and jailed for seven more years, an informed source said, wrapping up a …

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romanian prosecutors asked a Bucharest court on Friday to extend by 30 days the arrest of ex-kickboxer and internet personality Andrew Tate, prosecutors from the anti organised …

By Ananda Teresia and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo signed an emergency regulation on Friday to replace a controversial job creation law that a court had ruled …

By Kristina Cooke, Mike Spector, Benjamin Lesser, Dan Levine and Disha Raychaudhuri (Reuters) – Lawmakers around the United States have tried to grant justice to victims of decades-old incidents of …

By Kwang Jira[censored] Kuhakan POIPET, Cambodia (Reuters) -Cambodian rescue teams recovered several bodies on Friday from the charred rooms of a casino-hotel where a fire killed at least 27 people …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia had become one of China’s leading suppliers of oil and gas, with 13.8 billion cubic metres of gas …

By Jira[censored] Kuhakan ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand (Reuters) – When Nunthida Kongreung heard a huge fire had broken out at a Cambodian border town casino-hotel, she started calling her parents who were …

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s inflation rate is unlikely to decline rapidly at present and the European Central Bank’s target of 2% will only become feasible by the middle of the …

By Andrew Downie and Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in …

By Nevzat Devranoglu and Ezgi Erkoyun ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s central bank said on Friday it aims to lift the share of lira deposits to 60% of all deposits in the …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The rouble strengthened sharply on Friday, nearing the 70 mark against the dollar as a highly volatile year drew to a close, with the final month of …