Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are seen in Karez area, west of Mosul, Iraq, October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Ari Jalal October 17, 2017 By Ahmed Rasheed and Mustafa Mahmoud BAGHDAD/KIRKUK (Reuters) – The Baghdad government recaptured territory from Kurds across the breadth of northern Iraq on Tuesday, making startlingly rapid gains in a […]
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FCC chairman rejects Trump suggestion on broadcast licenses
Ajit Pai, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, testifies before a Senate Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein October 17, 2017 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s chairman said Tuesday the agency […]
Mission impossible? Merkel’s coalition conundrum just got harder
FILE PHOTO: Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Chancellor Angela Merkel and Christian Social Union (CSU) Bavaria State Premier Horst Seehofer address a news conference in Berlin, Germany, October 9, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo October 17, 2017 By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) – She has earned a reputation as Europe’s chief crisis […]
Dow cracks 23,000 mark for the first time
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid October 17, 2017 (Reuters) – The Dow Industrials breached the 23,000 mark for the first time on Tuesday, helped by a rally in shares of UnitedHealth and Johnson & […]
Powell likely next Fed chief, though Yellen best suited: economists
FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell discusses financial regulation in Washington, U.S., October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts October 17, 2017 By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) – Jerome Powell likely will be the next Federal Reserve chairman, according to a slim majority of economists in a Reuters poll – […]
Coming of age in an era of prosperity: Meet China’s ‘bubble generation’
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives to hold a press conference at the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, Fujian province, China September 5, 2017. REUTERS/Fred Dufour/Pool October 17, 2017 By John Ruwitch and Anita Li WUHAN, China (Reuters) – Call them China’s bubble generation. They were born after the crushing of the […]
New cancer drugs help J&J top profit estimates
FILE PHOTO: Bottles of Johnson’s baby oil, made by Johnson & Johnson, are seen on a supermarket shelf in Seattle, Washington, U.S., February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo October 17, 2017 (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit and raised its full-year forecast as the company gained […]
Uber loses another senior figure as European policy chief quits: FT
FILE PHOTO: A photo illustration shows the Uber app on a mobile telephone, as it is held up for a posed photograph in central London, Britain September 22, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo October 17, 2017 LONDON (Reuters) – Uber’s European policy chief Christopher Burghardt has quit to join the electric […]
China’s Xi set to codify legal clout, anti-graft campaign at congress
October 17, 2017 By Christian Shepherd BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Communist Party once shunned the rule of law, preferring to rely on what Chairman Mao Zedong called “rule of man” – essentially using the authority of party leaders to govern. In recent years, though, as China’s economy modernizes, the party has […]
U.N. urges Bangladesh to move Rohingya refugees stranded at border
Rohingya refugees who crossed the border from Myanmar a day before, wash themselves in a rice field as they wait to receive permission from the Bangladeshi army to continue their way to the refugee camps, in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Silva October 17, 2017 By Stephanie Nebehay […]