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Chinese fret over elderly as WHO warns of holiday COVID surge
Date: January 12, 2023
By Bernard Orr and Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -People in China worried on Thursday about spreading COVID-19 to aged relatives as they planned returns to their home towns for holidays that the World Health Organization warns could inflame a raging outbreak. The Lunar New Year holiday, which officially starts from Jan. 21, comes after China...
Stocks becalmed before potential CPI storm
Date: January 12, 2023
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian stocks hovered below seven-month highs on Thursday, as investors waited to see whether U.S. data will confirm inflation is in retreat, while the yen rose with a report Japan will next week review the side-effects of its ultra-easy policy. Following gains for Wall Street indexes overnight, MSCI’s broadest...
Apple may add touch screens to Mac computers – Bloomberg News
Date: January 12, 2023
(Reuters) -Apple Inc is actively working on adding touch screens to its Mac computers, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the project. The first touch-screen Mac could be launched as soon as 2025 as part of an update to Apple’s MacBook Pro, the report said. Apple did not immediately respond to a...
Greek PM dashes hopes of swift return of Parthenon marbles
Date: January 11, 2023
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday dismissed reports of an imminent repatriation of the Parthenon sculptures known in Britain as the Elgin marbles. Britain and Greece recently began fresh talks over a possible deal to end the long-running dispute, with Greece seeking the permanent return from the British Museum of the...
French unions gear up for fight against delayed retirement
Date: January 11, 2023
By Noemie Olive and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) – French unions and opposition parties on Wednesday said they would fight hard to try to derail a highly unpopular plan to make people work longer before receiving a pension. President Emmanuel Macron’s government, in turn, said it wasn’t afraid of a nationwide call for strikes and...
Environment risks dominate in “polycrisis” world – WEF survey
Date: January 11, 2023
By Mark John (Reuters) – Failure to tackle climate change and environmental degradation dominate the ranking of top risks facing the planet in the next decade, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey of global risk specialists found. Moreover, current-day challenges including the rising cost of living, persistent energy and food supply crunches and heavy national...