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Oil settles down about 1% as traders focus on Ukraine peace talks, Fed policy decision

Image for Trafigura lifts dividend payments in 2025 despite lower net profits

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Trafigura lifts dividend payments in 2025 despite lower net profits

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Explainer-What happens if French social security bill fails

Image for Exclusive-Top Indian arms makers held rare meetings in Russia on potential joint ventures, sources say

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Exclusive-Top Indian arms makers held rare meetings in Russia on potential joint ventures, sources say

Image for COVID fraud inflicts 11 billion pound hit to UK public finances, report shows

COVID fraud inflicts 11 billion pound hit to UK public finances, report shows

Date: December 9, 2025

MANCHESTER, England, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Fraudulent claims for taxpayer funds during the COVID-19 pandemic cost Britain's public finances 10.9 billion pounds ($14.5 billion), the government said on...

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'Shockingly high' number of Gaza children still acutely malnourished after truce, UN says

Date: December 9, 2025

GENEVA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Thousands of children have been admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition in Gaza since an October ceasefire that was supposed to enable a major increase in humanitarian...

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EU's Kallas says criticism of liberties in Europe should be aimed elsewhere, 'Russia perhaps'

Date: December 9, 2025

BRUSSELS, Dec 9 (Reuters) - European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday that criticism of liberties in the bloc should be aimed elsewhere and at "Russia perhaps", referring to a...

Image for Japan denies report it rebuffed EU's plea to join Russian asset plans

Japan denies report it rebuffed EU's plea to join Russian asset plans

Date: December 9, 2025

TOKYO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Japan's government on Tuesday denied a media report that it had rebuffed a European Union request over plans to use frozen Russian state assets to fund Ukraine. "It's...

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Exclusive-US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants

Date: December 9, 2025

By Dan Levine and Patrick Wingrove Dec 9 (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for...

Image for Putin does not want to restore the U.S.S.R. or attack NATO, the Kremlin says

Putin does not want to restore the U.S.S.R. or attack NATO, the Kremlin says

Date: December 9, 2025

By Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that European claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to restore the Soviet Union were wrong and that claims Putin...