Telefonica sells El Salvador mobile phone unit in $144 million deal
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Spanish Telecom company Telefonica is seen at its headquarters in Madrid, Spain, May 12, 2021. REUTERS/Sergio Perez/File PhotoMADRID [...]
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Russia's Navalny says prison has changed his status to "terrorist"
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday that a prison commission had designated him an extremist and a terrorist, but [...]
Fed chief has Biden's 'confidence,' but no decision on renomination
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden expressed “confidence” in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday after an influential senator in his party’s [...]
Fed to reveal new projections with investors on alert for rate liftoff timing
(Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve officials will lay bare how soon and how often they think the economy will need interest rates rises [...]
Texas bans social networks booting users over politics
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Texas on Thursday (Sept 9) made it illegal for popular social media platforms to ban users “simply based on [...]
Merkel says her conservatives face hard battle after 16 years in power
BERLIN (Reuters) -Angela Merkel said on Thursday nobody in her conservative bloc ever doubted that they faced a tough battle to hold the [...]
Central banks of Honduras, Guatemala eye digital currencies as El Salvador launches bitcoin
FILE PHOTO: A token of the virtual currency Bitcoin is seen placed on a monitor that displays binary digits in this illustration picture, [...]
Unseemly campaign by the government to censor media: Dawn
ISLAMABAD (DAWN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The PTI government’s claims of respecting press freedom have long been exposed as patently insincere. Its proposed Pakistan [...]
Chinese LGBTQ rights groups blocked on social media
BEIJING (AFP) – Multiple social media accounts belonging to major university LGBTQ rights groups in China have been blocked from the popular WeChat [...]
Exclusive: IMF exploring creation of new trust to provide SDRs to broader group of countries – Georgieva
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund is exploring creation of a new trust that could allow its members to lend their IMF [...]