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OPEC again lowers 2024, 2025 global oil demand growth view
Date: September 10, 2024
By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) – OPEC on Tuesday cut its forecast for global oil demand growth in 2024 reflecting data received so far this year and also trimmed its expectation for next year, marking the producer group’s second consecutive downward revision. The weaker outlook further underscores the challenge faced by OPEC+, which comprises the...
Factbox-Which EU member states have introduced temporary border checks?
Date: September 10, 2024
(Reuters) -The European Union is dealing with an increase in legal and illegal migrant arrivals, spurring some member countries to temporarily reintroduce border checks within what is normally a wide area of free movement – the Schengen zone. Schengen’s rules allow this “as a last resort” to avert serious threats to internal security or public...
Italy oyster farmers dream of pearls from warming Mediterranean
Date: September 10, 2024
GULF OF POETS, Italy – Pearls may soon be cultivated in European seas for the first time ever, as Italian oyster farmers seek to exploit an unexpected opportunity offered by the rapidly warming Mediterranean. In late 2023, the first specimens of Pinctada radiata, a pearl oyster native to the Red Sea, were spotted in the...
Books in, screens out: some Finnish pupils go back to paper after tech push
Date: September 10, 2024
By Elviira Luoma and Anne Kauranen RIIHIMAKI, Finland (Reuters) – This autumn, pupils in the Finnish town of Riihimaki headed back to school with backpacks full of books after a decade of state-backed promotion of laptops and other digital devices in the classroom. Finland’s public education system has gained global renown for its good results...
US dollar regains footing as traders pare bets on big Fed rate cut
Date: September 9, 2024
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Sruthi Shankar NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -The dollar bounced against the yen and other major currencies on Monday, as investors looked ahead to U.S. inflation data after Friday’s mixed payrolls report reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve will likely stick to a smaller interest rate cut of 25 basis points (bps). The...
‘Loving and being loved’: UK’s Princess Kate says she is grateful after finishing chemotherapy
Date: September 9, 2024
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, said on Monday she had finished her course of preventative chemotherapy for cancer, saying the treatment had given her a new perspective and made her grateful for “simply loving and being loved”. Kate, 42, wife of heir-to-the-throne Prince William, had major abdominal surgery in January...