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OTTAWA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Canada will seek membership to the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework to further economic cooperation in the region, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Thursday following a meeting with …

By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) -Oil rose more than $1 a barrel on Thursday, extending the previous day’s rally of nearly 3%, as optimism over record U.S. crude exports and signs …

By Brian Ellsworth and Fernando Cardoso SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro heads into Sunday’s election with strong support among evangelical Christians, a key demographic that his rival …

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the world faced the most dangerous decade since World War Two as Western elites scrambled to prevent …

By Stanley Widianto, Ananda Teresia and Wa Lone JAKARTA (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military government warned on Thursday that any pressure from its Southeast Asian neighbours to put a time frame …

(Reuters) -Elon Musk, who once tweeted “I hate advertising”, said he wants Twitter Inc to be “the most respected advertising platform”, in a bid to gain the trust of ad …

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – German auto parts maker Continental AG said on Thursday it will invest around 210 million euros ($209.48 million) in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, with plans …

(Corrects date of verdict to Wednesday from Tuesday in second paragraph, with no other changes to headline or text) By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal jury in …

By Maya Gebeily and Maayan Lubell BAABDA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Lebanese and Israeli leaders finalised a U.S.-brokered maritime demarcation deal on Thursday, bringing a measure of accommodation between the enemy states as …

(Reuters) – A fire caused by a thunderstorm at Venezuela’s smallest refinery has been brought under control, a Venezuelan minister said, as the country’s largest refining facilities restart following a …

By Pamela Barbaglia (Reuters) – Credit Suisse’s latest shake-up has led to the promotion of some senior executives to more powerful roles while others are leaving. The bank is significantly …

By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) – French food group Danone on Thursday raised its 2022 revenue growth forecast after its third-quarter sales beat analysts’ estimates as the firm was able …

By Pamela Barbaglia, Anshuman Daga and Andres Gonzalez LONDON (Reuters) – Seeking to restore vigour to a business that’s been languishing, Credit Suisse says it will reshape its investment bank …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Tom Barrack, a onetime fundraiser for Donald Trump, acknowledged under cross-examination on Thursday that he hoped his ties to the then-president would encourage a …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s namesake company urged a New York judge to reject a demand by the state’s attorney general to appoint a monitor to …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – TerraPower LLC, Bill Gates’ advanced nuclear reactor company, and power company PacifiCorp said on Thursday they will undertake a study to evaluate deploying up to five additional …

By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is struggling to ramp up defence procurement or even just replace arms and munitions it has supplied to Kyiv, several sources told Reuters …

LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s parliament easily approved the majority Socialist government’s 2023 budget bill on its first reading on Thursday, paving the way for planned further deficit and debt reductions …

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – A potential recession could end a streak of gains for U.S. stocks that has followed every midterm election since World War Two. Since …

By Francesco Canepa, Balazs Koranyi and Frank Siebelt FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Some European Central Bank policymakers played down a change in the ECB’s official message on interest rates, which saw …

By Bianca Flowers and Aishwarya Nair (Reuters) -Heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc on Thursday topped Wall Street estimates for profit and revenue in the third quarter due to price increases and …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hertz Global Holdings Inc on Thursday reported a 12% jump in quarterly revenue, as demand for rental cars stayed strong amid surging leisure travel and constrained production from …

By Jeff Mason, Richard Cowan and Heather Timmons WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The midterm elections in the United States on Nov. 8 will determine whether Republicans or Democrats control each house …

ROME (Reuters) – Morale amongst Italian businesses and consumers fell in October, data showed on Thursday, underscoring the challenges facing new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who has inherited a rapidly …

By Michael Erman and Leroy Leo (Reuters) -Merck & Co on Thursday reported higher-than-expected third-quarter sales and profit on a jump in demand for blockbuster cancer immunotherapy Keytruda and human …