By Alexander Cornwell and Nidal al-Mughrabi TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for Hamas to be expelled from the region, a day after the U.N. Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war that offers the Palestinian militant group amnesty. Netanyahu publicly endorsed the plan during a…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli airstrikes killed five people and wounded 18 others in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, local health authorities said, after Hamas and Israel accused each other of violating an increasingly fragile near six-week-old truce. Medics said that one strike on a house in Bani Suhaila town…
(Reuters) -London’s main stock indexes rose on Thursday and looked set to break their losing streak, as defence and financial shares led a recovery amid a global rally sparked by AI bellwether Nvidia’s upbeat forecast. The blue-chip FTSE 100 climbed 0.5% as of 11:45 GMT, on track to halt a five-day decline. The domestically focused…
By Shariq Khan, Anna Hirtenstein and Dmitry Zhdannikov NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. oil major Chevron is studying options to buy global assets of sanctioned Russian oil firm Lukoil, five sources familiar with the process told Reuters on Monday. The U.S. Treasury gave clearance last week to potential buyers to talk to Lukoil about foreign assets….
(Reuters) -Oil prices are expected to decline through 2026, Goldman Sachs said on Monday, citing a production surge that will keep the market in a large surplus of around 2 million barrels per day. The bank forecast Brent crude will average $56 a barrel and WTI $52 in 2026, below current forward curves of $63…
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would work to help end the war in Sudan after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked him to get involved in the matter. “We’ve already started working on that,” Trump said at a Saudi investment conference a day…
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Adobe and Qualcomm said on Wednesday they are partnering with Humain, the artificial intelligence firm backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, to help the AI company develop tools for generating content in Arabic and for the broader Middle East. The deal is one of several expected on Wednesday…
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran on Friday said that if stablecoins end up enjoying widespread adoption it could mean the central bank needs to keep short-term interest rates lower than they would otherwise be. “Even relatively conservative estimates of stablecoin growth imply an increase in the net supply…
(Reuters) -China has begun designing a new rare earth licensing regime that could speed up shipments, but it is unlikely to amount to a complete rollback of restrictions as hoped by Washington, industry insiders said. The Ministry of Commerce told some rare earth exporters they will be able to apply for new streamlined permits in…
(Reuters) -A consortium of around 20 banks is providing a project finance loan of about $18 billion to support the construction of a data center campus linked to Oracle in New Mexico, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, BNP Paribas SA, Goldman Sachs Group, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group are administrative agents…
