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Dollar rises on safe-haven demand, yen slides as Middle East risks mount

The yen was particularly under pressure, falling in afternoon trading to its weakest since July 2024 and raising the possibility of currency market intervention...

Cholera aid for African countries stalled by Iran conflict

The stocks stranded in Dubai warehouses are contingency supplies placed in cholera-prone countries including Chad and Sudan ahead of the rainy months International News via...

UN moves to create mechanism to safeguard Hormuz trade in face of Iran war

U.N. Under-Secretary-General Jorge Moreira da Silva, executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, will lead the project, Dujarric said International News via...

Pound heads for biggest monthly loss against the safe-haven dollar since October

Sterling has fallen by 1.5% in March, slightly more than in February, making this its worst monthly performance since last October International News via Reuters: The...

Half of Dutch fleet idle as European fishing hit by high diesel prices

The pressure is most acute in the Netherlands because of an outsized number of beam trawlers in its fleet, which makes up about 7%...

Mexico says it has potentially identified 40,000 of the country’s 130,000 disappeared

After a year-long review of the national registry of missing persons, officials said that 40,367 entries -- 31% of the total -- showed some...

WTO at ‘critical juncture’ and needs deep reform, EU and CPTPP say

The EU and the CPTPP - which comprises 12 countries, including Australia, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Malaysia and Britain - met on the sidelines of...

Austria plans social media ban for children under 14

Australia introduced a social media ban for under-16s in December, the first country to do so International News via Reuters: Austria's conservative-led, three-party government plans to...

Trump extends deadline for striking Iran’s energy plants to April 7

The war has spread across the Middle East, killing thousands of people and hitting the global economy with soaring energy and fertiliser prices that...

EU ministers seek united strategy on energy price crisis

Oil and gas prices have spiked since the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran began on ​February 28, creating a price shock similar to the energy...

Lufthansa reaches wage deal with German ground staff

According to the deal, reached after four rounds of talks, the basic salary for ground staff will be raised by a total of 4.65%...

Bank of England lowers cost of on-demand liquidity facility

The BoE is moving to what it calls a demand-driven system of reserves under which commercial banks use collateral such as government bonds to...
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