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By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) -Oil prices settled higher on Friday, recouping some of this week’s losses on strong U.S. job growth data, but closed the week at their lowest levels …

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK – The dollar rallied across the board on Friday, notching its biggest daily percentage gain since mid-June against the yen, after a stronger-than-expected U.S. payrolls …

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden continues to feel “very well” while still testing positive for COVID-19, the White House physician said on Friday. Biden will continue strict isolation measures …

WASHINGTON – Meta Platforms, the parent of Facebook which is making a big play for virtual reality, has agreed to delay closing its deal for Within Unlimited, maker of the …

By Eliana Raszewski and Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES – Asked about Sergio Massa, Argentina’s new “superminister” for the economy, many Argentines perceive him as an opportunistic politician with limitless ambition. …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK -A U.S. judge on Friday threw out a former Deutsche Bank AG trader’s conviction for conspiring to manipulate the global lending benchmark Libor, after an …

By Rafaella Barros (Reuters) -An oil and gas industry study commissioned by the campaign of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for the October elections will recommend bolstering Petrobras’ …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -A U.S. senator on Friday asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to address the risk of unseen children being struck by sport utility vehicles …

By Rithika Krishna (Reuters) – Canopy Growth Corp posted another core loss on Friday, denting investor hopes that the cannabis producer would turn profitable anytime soon, sending its shares down …

(Reuters) – Kari Lake, a former news anchor who has embraced former President Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, has been projected to win the Republican nomination for Arizona …

KYIV – Orthodox chants of mourning resounded in a packed central Kyiv cathedral on Friday as Ukraine buried an agricultural tycoon with his wife after they were killed in a …

By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON – Mountaire Farms, a top U.S. chicken company, is pressuring its contract farmers to oppose a Biden administration proposal aimed at improving their conditions because the …

(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc is in advanced talks to buy drugmaker Global Blood Therapeutics for about $5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. …

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Channa Kumara COLOMBO – Sri Lanka is considering a restructure of local and sovereign debt, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday, as the island nation battles …

By Nelson Acosta (Reuters) – Cuban 8-year-old Kevin Kindelan, a hot-handed shortstop for a Central Havana junior league baseball team and teammate and first baseman Leoni Venego, 7, both dream …

By Anirban Sen and Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) – The banks that agreed to finance Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc have a financial incentive to help the world’s …

By Tom Sims and Alexander Hübner FRANKFURT -Allianz spent around 140 million euros ($143.11 million) on restructuring to wind down a U.S. funds unit at the centre of a multi-billion …

By Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) -Britain’s FTSE 100 closed lower on Friday as Wall Street slipped after strong jobs data raised fears about faster U.S. interest rate hikes, but a weakening …

(Reuters) – Talk of changes to the Bank of England’s powers has revived a debate on whether central banks should be independent of governments and in what way. Central bankers …

By Tatiana Bautzer SAO PAULO -The Brazilian subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group AG has named Marcello Chilov as its new CEO, the bank said on Friday. Ivan Monteiro, who had …

DAKAR -The United States’ ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Friday said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will cause 40 million people to become food insecure and that sub-Saharan …

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – A federal judge sentenced a West Virginia man to three years in prison for sending intimidating emails to Anthony Fauci, including threats to kill the …