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(Reuters) – NFL great Tom Brady has acquired an ownership stake in the reigning WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces, team owner Mark Davis announced on Thursday. “I am very excited to be part of the Las Vegas Aces organization,” said Brady, who won a record seven Super Bowls in his 23-year playing career. “My love for women’s sports began at a young age when I would tag along to all […]

By Stanis Bujakera and Sonia Rolley KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed the country’s former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was detained for over 10 years for war crimes, as the country’s defence minister in a sweeping government reshuffle. His appointment was part of an overhaul of the 57 members of government, which the president’s spokesperson said was “urgent and necessary”, in an announcement […]

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said on Thursday he will send to the country’s Congress next week a bill to eliminate all taxes on technology innovations as well as computing and communications hardware manufacturing. “Next week, I’ll be sending a bill to congress to eliminate all taxes (income, property, capital gains and import tariffs) on technology innovations, such as software programming, coding, apps and AI development,” […]

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong needs to watch carefully for any further “spillover” from U.S. regional banks, although the city has very little exposure to the situation in European and U.S. financial institutions, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said on Friday. The failure of two U.S. banks and a crisis at Credit Suisse have rattled financial markets over the past week and sent shockwaves through the global banking system. […]

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar was steady on Friday near seven-week lows as nervousness over the banking system kept investors skittish and traders absorbed the Federal Reserve’s hints of a pause to interest rate hikes. The dollar index, which measures the currency against six major rivals, fell 0.019% at 102.56, just above the seven-week low of 101.91 it touched on Thursday. The index eked out a small […]

By Jorge Garcia LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – School will be back in session on Friday for 420,000 Los Angeles students after a three-day strike by education workers disrupted classes and social services in the second-largest school district in the United States. The Los Angeles Unified School District and the Service Employees International Union Local 99 failed to reach an agreement during the work stoppage, which ended on Thursday with another […]

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Thursday upheld a judge’s ruling blocking enforcement of President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order requiring all federal employees take a COVID-19 vaccine. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said that, contrary to arguments by the Biden administration, the judge had jurisdiction to issue a nationwide mandate against the requirement. A three-member panel of the Fifth Circuit overturned […]

By Daniel Ramos LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Luis Arce said on Thursday he would be willing to jointly design a lithium policy with other Latin American countries to benefit their economies, echoing a similar proposal from Mexico’s President. Bolivia has an estimated 21 million tonnes of untapped lithium resources, the most worldwide, in an area of sprawling salt flats delineating the so-called “lithium triangle” that includes northern Chile […]

By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned his defence chief on Thursday after reports the minister wanted to halt the government’s judicial overhaul plans, as cracks opened in the ruling coalition over the bitterly disputed project. A planned statement by Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, whom Israeli media said wanted to call for a stop to the plans in the name of maintaining order in military ranks, […]