* China, US data miss expectations * Travel shares plummet on UK quarantine movement * Review for US-China trade plan scheduled for Saturday * Graph: Global FX Rates in 2020 tmsnrt.rs/2RBWI5E (Updates pricing, changes comment, dateline; previous LONDON) By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Shares dip on …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Investors face a classic ‘dictatorial dilemma’ in Belarus – hold on to securities that take advantage of the status quo in a brutal regime, or sell them and close their bonds – but whichever way they go, for largely dependent on Vladimir Putin’s Russia. PHOTO PHOTO: Russian …
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The European Union is preparing sanctions against officials in Belarus who are responsible for the deadly pressure on anti-Protestant elections, said Foreign Minister Josep Borrell. The green light was given by the 27 EU foreign ministers during a video conference in Brussels on Friday, while protests in Belarus over the …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion, but if it turns out to be a sabotage operation by Israel, it would “pay an equal price”. The leader of the powerful Iran-backed …
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Paris – Spain has banned smoking in public open spaces, where people can maintain no social distance of at least six feet and close nightclubs amid a rise in new coronavirus fallen. The moves followed research by the Spanish Ministry of Health that showed an increased risk of smokers transmitting …
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