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By Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian miner Vale SA sees declining steel demand in China, the world’s largest producer, but the situation is not as dire as some indicators suggest, the miner’s vice president of iron ore solutions told Reuters. Vale is “cautiously optimistic” about the largest global consumer of iron ore, as China’s economy has proven resilient, despite uncertainties surrounding possible stimulus measures to achieve growth […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s economy grew 0.8% in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, national statistics agency INEGI said on Tuesday, slightly below its preliminary estimate and prompting analysts to warn of a slowdown. INEGI last month estimated that gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.9% in the April to June period. Analysts polled by Refinitiv expected the final figures would show the economy expanding by 1.0% […]

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Typhoon Saola began brushing by the southern tip of Taiwan on Wednesday bringing heavy rain and winds causing some travel disruption though it is not expected to make direct landfall. Taiwan has issued land and sea warnings for the storm, with ferry services and flights to several offshore islands and the southeastern city of Taitung cancelled. The heaviest rain will fall along mountainous and sparsely populated parts […]

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – A special legislative session in Tennessee called by the state’s Republican governor in response to a deadly school shooting ended on Tuesday with no progress on gun safety laws, capped by a brief scuffle between opposing lawmakers. Governor Bill Lee, in the special session which opened on Aug. 21, asked lawmakers to consider a “red flag” law and a number of other public safety measures […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Andy Murray will have his family with him to celebrate his 200th Grand Slam match win on Tuesday, as the Briton joined rare company with a straight-sets defeat of France’s Corentin Moutet in the U.S. Open first round. The 36-year-old is only the ninth man to earn 200 match wins in major competition, despite an abdominal injury that cut short his North American hardcourt campaign ahead […]

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – A special legislative session in Tennessee called by the state’s Republican governor in response to a deadly school shooting ended on Tuesday with no progress on gun safety laws, capped by a brief scuffle between opposing lawmakers. Governor Bill Lee, in the special session which opened on Aug. 21, asked lawmakers to consider a “red flag” law and a number of other public safety measures […]

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Typhoon Saola began brushing by the southern tip of Taiwan on Wednesday bringing heavy rain and winds causing some travel disruption though it is not expected to make direct landfall. Taiwan has issued land and sea warnings for the storm, with ferry services and flights to several offshore islands and the southeastern city of Taitung cancelled. The heaviest rain will fall along mountainous and sparsely populated parts […]

By Patrick Wingrove and Michael Erman (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Tuesday released its list of 10 prescription medicines that will be subject to the first-ever price negotiations by the U.S. Medicare health program that covers 66 million people, with big-selling blood thinner Eliquis from Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer among them. President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law last year, allows Medicare to negotiate prices […]

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A 42-year-old lawyer who was stolen at birth during the rule of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and raised in the United States has traveled thousands of miles to South America to meet his biological mother for the first time. “She didn’t know about me because they took me at birth and told her I was dead,” Jimmy Lippert Thyden said in a TikTok video while on the […]