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(Reuters) – The cost of insuring exposure to United States sovereign debt rose to the highest level since 2011 on Friday, over market jitters that the government could hit its debt ceiling sooner-than-expected. Spreads on U.S. five-year credit default swaps widened to 51 basis points, data from S&P Global Market Intelligence showed. This is more than double the level they stood at the start of the year. (Reporting by Alden […]

(Reuters) – The cost of insuring exposure to United States sovereign debt rose to the highest level since 2011 on Friday, over market jitters that the government could hit its debt ceiling sooner-than-expected. Spreads on U.S. five-year credit default swaps widened to 51 basis points, data from S&P Global Market Intelligence showed. This is more than double the level they stood at the start of the year. (Reporting by Alden […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -South Korea’s Washington ambassador Cho Hyun-dong said on Friday he was sure North Korean human rights would be given significant attention in summit talks between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and U.S. President Joe Biden next week. In a virtual address to the same event at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin said the “dire” rights situation in North Korea […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -South Korea’s Washington ambassador Cho Hyun-dong said on Friday he was sure North Korean human rights would be given significant attention in summit talks between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and U.S. President Joe Biden next week. In a virtual address to the same event at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin said the “dire” rights situation in North Korea […]

PARIS (Reuters) – French police are involved in an ongoing investigation relating to a probe by EU antitrust regulators into possible violations by European luxury companies, a police spokesperson said on Friday. The European Commission said on Tuesday that antitrust regulators had raided companies in the fashion sector in multiple EU countries, but did not name the companies involved or specify the potential breaches it was investigating. Reuters reported on […]

PARIS (Reuters) – French police are involved in an ongoing investigation relating to a probe by EU antitrust regulators into possible violations by European luxury companies, a police spokesperson said on Friday. The European Commission said on Tuesday that antitrust regulators had raided companies in the fashion sector in multiple EU countries, but did not name the companies involved or specify the potential breaches it was investigating. Reuters reported on […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Gunfire ripped through residential neighbourhoods of Sudan’s capital Khartoum at the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr on Friday, after the army deployed on foot for the first time in its almost week-long fight with a paramilitary force. Soldiers and gunmen from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shot at each other in neighbourhoods across the city, including during […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Gunfire ripped through residential neighbourhoods of Sudan’s capital Khartoum at the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr on Friday, after the army deployed on foot for the first time in its almost week-long fight with a paramilitary force. Soldiers and gunmen from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shot at each other in neighbourhoods across the city, including during […]

MILAN (Reuters) -Italy’s antitrust authority said on Friday it had taken measures against Meta Platform over an alleged abuse of its position in the country, in a probe involving the rights to music posted on the group’s platforms. Meta, the U.S. group which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, last month failed to reach a deal with the Italian society of authors and publishers SIAE, to renew copyright licences. As a […]