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By Aida Pelaez-Fernandez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Latin America is increasingly seen as an attractive market for mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with the ongoing U.S.-China trade spat helping to whet investor appetite for opportunities in the region, a KPMG survey of executives showed on Monday. The survey of nearly 400 executives across 14 countries globally showed technology, financial services and energy sectors leading the way and Mexico overtaking regional heavyweight […]

By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – Smoke shrouded Western Canada on Monday as wildfires flared again in the main oil-producing province of Alberta, while firefighters in Quebec doused some of the worst early season blazes, allowing thousands of evacuees to return home. Canada is enduring its most destructive start to wildfire season, with about 4.8 million hectares (48,000 square kilometers) – an area larger than the Netherlands in western Europe […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s business conditions eased sharply in May, dented by slower gains in sales and employment, suggesting demand growth is moderating in the wake of the central bank’s most aggressive tightening campaign in its modern history. The survey from National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) released on Tuesday showed its index of business conditions fell by a sizeable seven points to +8 in May, but they remained just above […]

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – The New Zealand central bank’s aggressive hiking of the cash rate likely pushed the country into a technical recession in the first quarter, a Reuters poll found, giving traction to the idea the cash rate may have peaked. Gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to be down 0.1% in the March quarter, below the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s (RBNZ) forecast of 0.3% growth, […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Tuesday he will visit Paris next week to attend a meeting of the Bureau International Expositions (BIE), the organiser for the Expo 2030. The visit is aimed at promoting his country’s bid to host the expo. The host country for the 2030 Expo is expected to be selected in November. (Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi; Editing by Ed Davies) Brought […]

By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – Smoke shrouded Western Canada on Monday as wildfires flared again in the main oil-producing province of Alberta, while firefighters in Quebec doused some of the worst early season blazes, allowing thousands of evacuees to return home. Canada is enduring its most destructive start to wildfire season, with about 4.8 million hectares (48,000 square kilometers) – an area larger than the Netherlands in western Europe […]

(Reuters) – Russia’s modernised and repaired heavy nuclear-powered missile battlecruiser the Admiral Nakhimov will return to service by the end of 2024 following testing in September of this year, Russia’s state TASS news agency reported on Tuesday. Russian state media RIA Novosti reported earlier that the ship will be armed with the Zircon hypersonic anti-ship missile, a new-generation weapon that along with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle forms the centrepiece […]

BOGOTA (Reuters) – The eldest of the four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia’s southern jungle after a plane crash pulled her youngest sibling from the wreckage, the children’s grandfather said on Monday. The children, aged 1 through 13, survived the May 1 crash that killed their mother and two other adults and were found on Friday in Caqueta province after weeks of searching […]

By Brendan O’Brien and Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -Human remains were recovered on Monday from a fallen overpass on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia as crews removed concrete debris from the site of a fiery weekend highway collapse that closed a stretch of one of the busiest traffic corridors along the U.S. East Coast. The section of I-95 was shut down in both directions after a tanker truck hauling gasoline caught […]