By Asif Shahzad and Jibran Ahmad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said his government handed an official protest to the U.S. embassy on Friday over what it called Washington’s interference in the country’s affairs. “We now have given a demarche to (the) American embassy,” Khan told local television channel ARY in an interview, …
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ALMATY (Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s Central Bank says will stop sales of 182-day debt securities, or notes, and limit the issuance of 91-day ones to 100 billion tenge ($211 million) in order to focus on managing short-term liquidity, it said on Friday. Foreign investors held about 75 billion tenge ($158 million)worth of the bank’s notes as …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s January trade deficit stood at $859 million, the country’s central bank said in a statement on Friday. The island nation’s January imports rose 23.1% to $1.96 billion, while exports rose 17.5% to $1.10 billion, according to the statement. (Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates surpassed China as the main destination for Brazilian chicken products in February, meat lobby ABPA said in a statement on Friday, citing the proximity of the Ramadan Muslim holy month as a sales driver. In the second month of 2022, the nation increased purchases by almost 90%, …
By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Russia will increase its use of non-Western currencies for trade with countries such as India, its foreign minister said on Friday, as he hailed New Delhi as a friend that was not taking a “one-sided view” on the Ukraine war. Sergei Lavrov visited India to shore up support …
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By Philip Blenkinsop and Yew Lun Tian BRUSSELS/BEIJING (Reuters) -EU and Chinese leaders met for their first summit in two years on Friday with Brussels pressing Beijing for assurances that it will neither supply Russia with arms nor help Moscow circumvent Western sanctions imposed over its invasion of Ukraine. In uncommonly open language, EU officials …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Amid a regional backlash, the Solomon Islands said it would not allow a Chinese military base in the Pacific islands nation despite its plans to sign a security pact with Beijing. A day after officials from the two countries initialled a draft agreement on security, the office of Solomon Islands …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea said on Friday it would further relax its social distancing rules next week and possibly scrap most pandemic-related curbs later this month, including an obligation to wear masks outdoors. From April 4, a curfew on eateries and other businesses will be pushed back to midnight from 11 …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -Two South Korean air force planes collided in mid-air on Friday during a training exercise, killing four pilots in the rare incident, authorities said. Some 130 troops, 95 police officers and 60 firefighters as well as three helicopters have begun a search at the crash site, the Yonhap news agency …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – There is “no military element” in the security cooperation between China and Soloman Islands, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday. After a regional backlash, the Solomon Islands on Friday said it would not allow a Chinese military base in the Pacific islands nation despite its plans to sign a security …
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