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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday that the release of five American detainees by Tehran was “purely a humanitarian action” as they left Iran under a Qatar-mediated deal that involved the release of $6 billion Iranian funds in South Korea. “This was purely a humanitarian action … And it can certainly be a step based upon which in the future other humanitarian actions can be […]

By Scott DiSavino and Nichola Groom (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan to deploy 30,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind by 2030 is still possible, although not easy, the CEO of Orsted, the world’s largest offshore wind developer, said on Monday at the Climate Week NYC event in New York. The remarks by Orsted CEO Mads Nipper come as soaring costs and supply chain delays have increasingly cast doubt […]

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar edged down against a basket of currencies on Monday but remained near a six-month high, as traders looked ahead to decisions on interest rates this week from the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan. Currency moves were largely muted on Monday as investors were hesitant to make big directional wagers ahead of the week’s slew […]

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Options on the newly listed shares of SoftBank’s Arm Holdings, the year’s biggest initial public offering, started trading on Monday, at a brisk pace, as a drop in the share price prompted investors to take guard. Arm shares fell 5.3% to $57.50, after rising as high as $69 on Friday, its second day of trading. Some 29,000 Arm options contracts changed hands […]

BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, begins on Monday a four-day trip to Russia during which both nations are expected to pledge deeper mutual political trust, readying for a possible landmark visit by President Vladimir Putin to Beijing in October. Wang, who heads the foreign ministry as well as the ruling Communist Party’s foreign affairs office, will meet Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev for annual security talks, the Chinese […]

By Christian Radnedge LONDON (Reuters) – England’s Women’s Super League is confident of becoming the first billion pound ($1.24 billion) women’s soccer league in the world within 10 years, the chair of the WSL’s board said ahead of the new season that begins next month. The top flight WSL and second-tier Women’s Championship are both run by The Football Association but there is an ongoing process to make the leagues […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Poland proposed on Monday that new European Union sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine should include a ban on Russian diamonds and Liquid Petroleum Gas and called for aligning sanctions against Belarus with those against Moscow. In a proposal seen by Reuters, Poland calls for banning imports of Russian diamonds, the sales of which brought the Russian budget $4.5 billion in 2021, it said, and […]

LIMA (Reuters) -At least 24 people were killed injured in a passenger bus accident in Peru overnight, according to the company operating the vehicle. A representative for the company Molina Union, Angie Cabrera, told local media from a hospital in Ayacucho that at least 24 people had died. “We are very sorry for the accident … at the moment we know that there are 24 deaths,” she said in an […]

By Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) – Five U.S. citizens left Iran and landed in Doha on Monday in a prisoner swap for five Iranians held in the United States and the transfer of $6 billion in Iranian funds in a rare moment of cooperation between the long-time antagonists. “Today, five innocent Americans who were imprisoned in Iran are finally coming home,” U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement, shortly […]