Wall Street pegs Boeing’s 737 MAX bill at more than $25 billion
By Ankit Ajmera (Reuters) – Boeing Co’s <BA.N> bill for the 737 MAX grounding could balloon to more than $25 billion, analysts estimated on Wednesday, a day after the U.S. … Read More
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Guinea-Bissau electoral commission confirms Embalo as president
BISSAU (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s national electoral commission confirmed former Prime Minister Umaro Cissoko Embalo as winner of the presidential ballot on Wednesday, after the Supreme Court threw the result into … Read More
Lam says government is forming independent committee to review Hong Kong situation
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that the government was about to announce the formation of an independent committee to study the situation in … Read More
Putin to discuss release of U.S.-Israeli woman jailed in Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the release of U.S.-Israeli citizen Naama Issachar during a visit to Israel on Thursday with her mother and Israel’s prime minister, … Read More
Hong Kong’s Lam says city vigilant over coronavirus
By Anne Marie Roantree DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that the government had been very vigilant over the coronavirus, adding that the rapid … Read More
With a nod from parliament, Greece gets first female president
ATHENS (Reuters) – Top judge Katerina Sakellaropoulou became Greece’s first woman president on Wednesday when lawmakers elected her head of state in a rare display of unity. Sakellaropoulou, 64, has … Read More
With record profits on Wall Street, small bonuses will annoy bankers: experts
By Scott Murdoch, Elizabeth Dilts Marshall and Imani Moise NEW YORK (Reuters) – Most Wall Street banks announced their fourth quarter profits beat industry expectations last week. But by the … Read More
Pension protest at France’s biggest hydro-dam creates power shortfall
By Bate Felix and Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) – Energy workers temporarily halted power generation at France’s biggest hydro-electricity plant on Wednesday in protest at President Emmanuel Macron’s overhaul of … Read More
Hong Kong protesters decry police inaction six months after brutal mob attack
By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Several hundred Hong Kong protesters gathered on Tuesday at the site of an attack six months ago by an armed mob on anti-government … Read More
Kosovo jails eight over plot to kill president and prime minister
PRISTINA (Reuters) – A Kosovo court jailed eight men on Wednesday for the attempted murder of a former politician and plotting to kill the Balkan country’s president and prime minister … Read More