By Emma Farge and Rachna Uppal ABU DHABI (Reuters) -Trade ministers from nearly every country in the world gathered in Abu Dhabi on Monday for a World Trade Organization meeting that aims to set new…
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Members of the South East Asian Central Banks (Seacen) alliance are developing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in tandem, with almost immediate updates. In a speech on February 15, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of…
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5/5 © Reuters. A French farmer of the Coordination Rural (CR) uses its tractor during a go-slow operation as farmers protest ahead of the opening of the Paris farm show, in Paris, France, February 23,…
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People in palliative care are dealing with serious, non-curable illness. Every day can be filled with severe physical, psychological and emotional pain. Palliative care staff work hard to help make patients as comfortable as possible…
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© Reuters. By Timothy Gardner and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Russia’s leading tanker group Sovcomflot as Washington seeks to reduce Russia’s revenues from oil sales it can use to…
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I’m exactly the right age (46) to look back with nostalgia on the significant part that The Body Shop played in my teen years. I can clearly remember the excitement of Saturdays in town, scraping…
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Ekaterina Pravilova, The ruble: a political history, Oxford University Press, 2023, 560 pages One of the most persistent stereotypes about Russia presents its past as a series of attempts to build an anti-capitalist utopia, whether under…
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Australia can lay claim to two new native mammal species, discovered as part of our collaborative research published today in the journal Molecular Ecology. Australia has some of the most unique biodiversity in the world,…
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2/2 © Reuters. Protesters wearing shirts with the logos of the FNSEA and Jeunes Agriculteurs farmers’ unions gather to protest at the opening of the 60th International Agriculture Fair (Salon de l’Agriculture) at the Porte…
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A New York jury found on Feb. 23, 2024, that the National Rifle Association and three of its current and former officials had broken the state’s laws by misusing charitable assets. It also determined that…
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