(Reuters) -A group of banks including Bank of America , Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and UBS will work together to explore creating blockchain-based assets pegged to G7 currencies, the banks said on Friday. The project, which is in its early stages, will explore creating assets on public blockchains which are pegged 1:1 to real-world …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea on Friday summoned the Cambodian ambassador to protest at the death of a South Korean student in Cambodia and raised the travel alert for its capital Phnom Penh over online scam cases targeting Koreans. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun voiced concerns to Ambassador Khuon Phon Rattanak over the “continued occurrence of job …
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By Bhanvi Satija and Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) -Wall Street is looking to U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly and Anglo-Swedish rival AstraZeneca as the potential next in line after Pfizer struck a deal with Donald Trump’s administration to lower drug prices last week. Reuters spoke to seven healthcare analysts and investors. Four said Lilly could be …
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By Muvija M and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -Google could be forced to change its search operations in the UK after it became the first company subject to new powers from Britain’s competition regulator to tackle the dominance of Big Tech. Competition regulators have long had Alphabet-owned Google in their sights and Britain’s landmark ruling …
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LONDON (Reuters) -An Afghan national was on Friday found guilty of making a threat in a TikTok video to kill Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist Reform UK party which leads opinion polls in Britain. Fayaz Khan, 26, was convicted by a jury at London’s Southwark Crown Court of a single count of making …
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By Vallari Srivastava (Reuters) -Venture Global shares plunged about 20% on Friday after the U.S. LNG exporter lost an arbitration with BP over failure to deliver on a long-term gas supply contract, stoking worries of similar verdicts in pending disputes with other customers seeking billions of dollars in compensation. The ruling in BP’s favour came …
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By Saeed Shah ISLAMABAD/KABUL/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Afghanistan’s Taliban government accused Pakistan on Friday of carrying out airstrikes on its territory and warned of “consequences” as Islamabad said it was taking action against militants. Eleven more Pakistani soldiers were killed on Friday in a clash with Islamist militants in the Tirah area close to the Afghan …
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KIEV, 10 oct (Reuters) – El presidente de Ucrania, Volodímir Zelenski, dijo el viernes que habló con la jefa del Banco Central Europeo, Christine Lagarde, sobre el “uso justo” de los activos rusos congelados. Sus comentarios se producen después de un gran ataque aéreo ruso nocturno que afecto a toda Ucrania. “Hemos hablado de cómo …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The first direct passenger flight from Riyadh to Moscow operated by Saudia, Saudi Arabia’s national airline, touched down in the Russian capital on Friday amid warming ties between the two oil producers. Saudia said it is planning three direct return flights per week to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport in a move likely to spur …
By Anna Hirtenstein LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices declined to multi-month lows on Friday as the market’s risk premium faded after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a plan to end the war in Gaza. Brent crude futures were down $1.73, or 2.7%, at $63.49 a barrel at 1316 GMT. Earlier, they fell …
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