By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – The top U.S. securities regulator has cited April as the release date for a long-anticipated rule on companies’ climate-related disclosures, according to a recent federal notice. In a draft proposal last March the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it would require public companies to spell out their own direct …
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CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 12 ene (Reuters) – La alcaldesa de Ciudad de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, anunció el jueves el despliegue de más de 6,000 elementos de la Guardia Nacional en estaciones y “otras instalaciones” del metro de la capital, luego de una serie de incidentes que calificó como fuera de lo normal. Sheinbaum, una de …
By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday released a U.S. citizen who had crossed into its Kaliningrad exclave in the first weeks of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February, former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who met the man at the border in Poland, said in a statement. U.S. Navy veteran Taylor …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of sensitive government documents – an inquiry that could cast a shadow over the Democrat’s expected run for re-election in 2024. The top U.S. law enforcement …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that the onus is on North Korea to return to talks aimed at getting Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program, a rebuttal of China’s demand that the United States needs to show flexibility. North Korea has been subject to …
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ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday renewed her criticism of the euro zone bailout fund, a 500-billion-euro ($541.55 billion) facility held back by Rome’s reluctance to ratify its recently-adopted reform. Meloni aired her concerns about the so-called European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in a meeting in Rome with the fund’s top managers, Director …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government’s net borrowing rose to 115.4 billion euros ($124.5 billion) in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, but was lower than originally expected, the country’s finance ministry said on Thursday. Last year, government borrowing was at its third-highest level in the history of Germany, following …
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By Shashwat Chauhan and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) -UK’s FTSE 100 closed higher on Thursday with banks and homebuilders among top gainers, while data showing a surprise decline in U.S. inflation cemented hopes of smaller rate increases by the Federal Reserve. The blue-chip FTSE 100 gained 0.9% to hover near more than four-year highs scaled …
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Biden criticized House Republicans who have taken control of Congress for backing tax measures that he said would benefit the wealthy at the expense of middle class taxpayers, and make inflation worse. The Republican-controlled House passed a bill Monday night that would slash tens of billions of funding …
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RICHMOND, EEUU, 12 ene (Reuters) – Los recientes datos de inflación han avanzado en la “dirección correcta” y permiten a la Reserva Federal “dirigir más deliberadamente” su batalla para reducir el ritmo de alza de los precios, declaró el jueves el presidente de la Reserva Federal de Richmond, Tom Barkin. “Simplemente tiene sentido dirigir más …
