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China’s Xi backs Macron call for global Olympic truce
May 6, 2024 No Responses

China’s Xi backs Macron call for global Olympic truce

By John Irish and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -China’s President Xi Jingping on Monday called for a global truce during the Olympic Games in Paris this summer after the French president and the head of the European Commission urged him...
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UPS CFO Brian Newman to step down on June 1, company says
May 6, 2024 No Responses

UPS CFO Brian Newman to step down on June 1, company says

(Reuters) – United Parcel Service said on Monday that its CFO and Executive Vice President Brian Newman would leave the company on June 1. UPS will evaluate internal and external candidates to replace Newman, the firm said. “My near-term priority.....
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Goldman Sachs criminal case over 1MDB formally ends
May 6, 2024 No Responses

Goldman Sachs criminal case over 1MDB formally ends

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday formally ended the U.S. government’s criminal case against Goldman Sachs related to the Wall Street bank’s work for the Malaysian fund 1MDB after it met its obligations and paid $2.9 billion...
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Conservative US judges boycott Columbia grads over campus Gaza protests
May 6, 2024 No Responses

Conservative US judges boycott Columbia grads over campus Gaza protests

By Nate Raymond and Karen Sloan (Reuters) – A group of 13 conservative U.S. federal judges said on Monday that they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University in response to its handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The....
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With bright tents and sombre mood, protesting UK students show solidarity with US peers
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With bright tents and sombre mood, protesting UK students show solidarity with US peers

By Hollie Adams OXFORD (Reuters) – British students set up pro-Palestinian protest encampments on Oxford and Cambridge universities’ historic campuses on a cloudy spring Monday, in a show of solidarity with their American peers. By early morning, s...
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Biden pushed Netanyahu not to attack Rafah, US reviewing ceasefire proposal
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Biden pushed Netanyahu not to attack Rafah, US reviewing ceasefire proposal

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday it was reviewing a response by Hamas to a ceasefire and hostage release deal, and continued to press Israel not to launch a large-scale military offensive in the...
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Brazil’s ex-President Bolsonaro to undergo health treatments in Sao Paulo
May 6, 2024 No Responses

Brazil’s ex-President Bolsonaro to undergo health treatments in Sao Paulo

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is traveling to Sao Paulo on Monday for treatment of an intestinal obstruction and a bout of erysipelas, a bacterial skin infection, his lawyer Fabio Wajngarten said on social ...
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Democrat Hakeem Jeffries steps up as House Republicans roast Johnson
May 6, 2024 No Responses

Democrat Hakeem Jeffries steps up as House Republicans roast Johnson

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the Democratic minority leader in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries’ influence is normally limited. This week, he may be the most powerful person in Congress. That is becaus...
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Trump accuses Biden of running ‘Gestapo administration’
May 6, 2024 No Responses

Trump accuses Biden of running ‘Gestapo administration’

By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Democratic rival President Joe Biden of running a “Gestapo administration” in a private address to donors in which he also attacked prosecutors involved in...
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Oil steadies as ceasefire eludes Hamas, Israel
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Oil steadies as ceasefire eludes Hamas, Israel

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil futures ended largely unchanged on Monday as a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel continued to elude negotiators. Both crude oil benchmarks settled 37 cents, or 0.5%, higher with Brent crude futures at $83.33...
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