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LVIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday called on U.S. software firms Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp and German business software group SAP to halt support services for …

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN -South Africa’s civil aviation regulator grounded Comair’s planes indefinitely on Sunday over unresolved safety issues, in a move that also affects low-cost airline Kulula and …

By Andrew MacAskill LONDON -Britain will pay people to open their homes to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion as the government moves to deflect anger over its response to the fastest-growing refugee …

– Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc on Sunday said that its subsidiary JD Logistics Inc has agreed to buy domestic courier Deppon Logistics Co Ltd. Under the deal, JD Logistics …

By David Randall NEW YORK -Investors are rushing to recalibrate their portfolios for a potentially extended period of elevated commodity prices, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparks eye-popping moves in …

BEIJING -Mainland China reported 1,807 new local symptomatic COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the highest daily figure in two years and more than triple the caseload of the previous day, as …

MUMBAI – Indian police briefly detained Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and CEO of the fintech firm Paytm in New Delhi in February for a minor road accident, local media …

Below Their Lines: American Corporations Cancel Russia But Remain Silent On Uyghur Genocide Philip Lenczycki on March 12, 2022 Major American companies are suspending operations in Russia following the nation’s …

(This March 11 story corrects to say “at least six independent stores” instead of “many” stores; adds details on Nike’s March 3 statement about suspension of operations in Russia) By …

– Billionaire investor Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management is pulling out the $750 million it invested in Melvin Capital Management, Bloomberg News reported https://bloom.bg/3whzrgL on Saturday. Point72 will soon start …

– Russia’s central bank on Saturday said it has decided not to reopen stock market trading on the Moscow Exchange from March 14-18, with the exception of some non-open-market transactions …

LVIV, Ukraine – Ukraine plans to start sowing spring grains in the coming days and has enough grain in stocks to ensure the population has enough bread, deputy agriculture minister …

– Russia’s trade and finance ministries will widen the criteria for systematically important firms to include companies from the electronics sector, the TASS news agency quoted Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry …

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI -Mainland China reported more than 1,500 new local COVID-19 infections on Saturday, the most since the first nationwide outbreak in early 2020, as the Omicron variant …

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s Central Bank tightened trade restrictions on Saturday, ordering exporters to repatriate foreign exchange earnings within 180 days of transactions in a bid to …

NEW DELHI – Russia urged India to deepen its investments in the sanction-hit country’s oil and gas sector, and is keen on expanding the sales networks of Russian companies in …

LVIV, Ukraine – The Ukrainian president’s economic adviser on Saturday played down the risks of the hryvnia devaluating further, despite the Russian invasion of the country which began on Feb. …

– Russian natural gas company Gazprom said on Saturday it was continuing gas shipments via Ukraine at an unchanged volume of 109.5 million cubic metres a day. (Reporting by Reuters; …

‘People Are Dying:’ Democratic Mayors Crack Down On Massive Homeless Camps Laurel Duggan on March 11, 2022 Democratic mayors are changing course on homelessness, opting to clear out homeless encampments …

Corporations Lobby Texas To Support Sex Changes For Kids Laurel Duggan on March 11, 2022 Apple, Google, Microsoft and other companies called on Texas to abandon its effort to treat …

IRS Seeks To Hire 10,000 More Workers To Relieve Backlog Harry Wilmerding on March 11, 2022 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced a plan Thursday to hire 10,000 workers to …

– Some U.S. hedge-fund firms that have investments from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich have been told to freeze his assets after Britain imposed sanctions on him, the Wall Street Journal …

By Andrew Hay -A Texas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from investigating parents who provide their transgender children with gender-transitioning medical treatments that Governor Greg Abbott calls “child …

By Ross Kerber – BlackRock Inc’s total client exposure to Russia has declined to less than $1 billion from $18 billion a month ago, before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine led …

MONTREAL -Any dual registration of foreign-owned aircraft leased by Russian carriers would be inconsistent with parts of a key agreement that sets out core principles for global aviation, the United …