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(Reuters) -HSBC has decided to wind down its wealth and personal banking business in New Zealand, the bank said on Tuesday, as it exits from less profitable businesses globally to focus on expanding in certain Asian markets. The process, as a result of a strategic review, will happen over several years in a phased manner, it said in a statement. The London-headquartered lender can “no longer justify investing into this […]

LONDON (Reuters) -British police said three people had been found dead in the central English city of Nottingham and a man had been arrested on suspicion of murder after a van had also tried to run over another three people. Police said two people had been found dead on one road in the centre of the city just after 4 a.m. (0300 GMT) before officers were alerted to another incident […]

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s president stepped up criticism of China’s ambassador on Tuesday, saying the envoy had been disrespectful in suggesting South Korea had made the wrong choice by siding with the United States against China. The ambassador, Xing Haiming, sparked controversy last Thursday when, in comments to an opposition politician, he warned South Korea against making a “wrong bet” when it came to Sino-U.S. rivalry and […]

By Jack Queen MIAMI (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump arrived in Miami on Monday to face federal criminal charges, while a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found a vast majority of his fellow Republicans believe the case to be politically motivated. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election, is scheduled to be in a Miami federal courthouse on Tuesday at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) for an […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The United Nations on Tuesday said the breach of the huge Soviet-era dam on the Dnipro river in Ukraine will have a huge impact on global food security, lead to a rise in food prices and could cause drinking water problems for hundreds of thousands. The dam, part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, was breached in the early hours of June 6, allowing some of the […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Italy was preparing on Tuesday to bid farewell to former premier Silvio Berlusconi, a scandal-prone billionaire who dominated the country’s politics, business and soccer world for at least three decades. Berlusconi aged 86, three days after his readmission to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, and two months after it was revealed he had long been suffering from leukaemia. “Italy without Berlusconi,” the country’s largest circulation newspaper, […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Italy was preparing on Tuesday to bid farewell to former premier Silvio Berlusconi, a scandal-prone billionaire who dominated the country’s politics, business and soccer world for at least three decades. Berlusconi aged 86, three days after his readmission to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, and two months after it was revealed he had long been suffering from leukaemia. “Italy without Berlusconi,” the country’s largest circulation newspaper, […]

By Sumit Khanna and Rajendra Jadhav AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Four boys drowned after venturing into rough seas in Mumbai as Indian authorities began evacuating people from western coastal areas on Tuesday, two days before a powerful cyclone approaches Gujarat state and neighbouring southern Pakistan. Classified as a very severe cyclonic storm, Biparjoy is expected to make landfall around Thursday evening between Mandvi in India’s Gujarat and Karachi in Pakistan with […]

LONDON (Reuters) -British police said they were dealing with an “ongoing serious incident” in the central English city of Nottingham, where multiple roads have been closed and the local tram network suspended. Pictures on Twitter showed main roads cordoned off by blue and white police tape, and officers looking relatively calm. National Inter-Agency Liaison Officers, which co-ordinate the response from police, ambulance and fire services, were also on the scene. […]