When Pavel Durov arrived in France on his private jet last Saturday, he was greeted by police who promptly arrested him. As the founder of the direct messaging platform Telegram, he was accused of facilitating…
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People: July to September 2024 – Central Banking End of drawer navigation content Skip to main content A round-up of central bankers in the news and on the move during the past three months Martin…
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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden-Harris administration this week is expected to announce final implementation plans for steep tariff increases on certain Chinese imports, and if U.S. industry gets its way, many of…
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Two vans pull over on a grassy hilltop. Inside sit a dozen meteorology students and their professor. From here, you can see in all directions because we are in the Great Plains of North Dakota.…
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Last week, quantum computers were added to Australia’s Defence and Strategic Goods List of controlled items facing export restrictions. That’s because quantum technologies – which may soon provide huge advances in computing, communication and sensing…
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Investing.com– Oil prices ended the week in the red despite settling higher Friday, as Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell’s signal that rate cuts were coming boosted sentiment on risk assets. At 14:30 ET (18:30 GMT),…
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For more than a year maize prices in Kenya and Malawi have been much higher compared with other countries in the east and southern Africa (ESA) region. Several factors explain this. In Malawi, high fertiliser…
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Giant black holes in the centres of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This leads to a dramatic and complex process as the star plunging towards the…
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By Nelson Acosta and Alien Fernandez CARDENAS, Cuba (Reuters) – Power outages totaling 14 hours or more per day were reported on Thursday across much of crisis-racked Cuba, leaving millions of residents defenseless in the…
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Disney has U-turned on a bid to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit in the US by relying on the terms of service for a simple streaming trial. The suit was filed by a man whose…
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