U.S. regulator calls climate change a systemic risk - Reuters
(Reuters) - Climate change poses a “slow motion” systemic threat to the stability of the U.S. financial system requiring urgent action from financial regulators, including the Federal Reserve and the Securities Exchange Commission.
That is one of the findings of a landmark report commissioned by the U.S. Commodity
Dubai non-oil private sector growth slows in August: PMI - Reuters
DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai’s non-oil private sector expanded marginally in August, its second straight month of growth, though at a slower pace than in July, while weak demand led to a sixth month of job cuts, a survey showed on Wednesday.
The
Taiwan reports multiple Chinese fighters to its southwest - Reuters
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Multiple Chinese fighter jets entered airspace to Taiwan’s southwest on Wednesday, said the island’s defence ministry, describing it as a destabilising action which threatened regional peace.
Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, has repeatedly complained of Chinese military activities near the island, including regular air force patrols. China says such drills demonstrate its resolve to protect its sovereignty.
China has in the last few weeks mounted numerous exercises up and down its coast and near Taiwan.
Taiwan’s Defence
Zverev riled by Martina's 'pat-a-cake' comment - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alexander Zverev lashed out at Martina Navratilova after the 18-times Grand Slam champion said he had played “pat-a-cake” tennis at times during his victory over Borna Coric in the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open on Tuesday.
Britain blocks plans for new coal mine in northeast England - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government has refused to allow an open cast coal mine to be built in northeastern England, the minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government Robert Jenrick said.
Northumberland County Council agreed in 2016 that developer The Banks
Kosmos Energy to sell some exploration assets to Shell - Reuters
(Reuters) - Oil and gas producer Kosmos Energy said on Wednesday it agreed to sell certain exploration assets in Africa and South America to a unit of Royal Dutch Shell for up to $200 million.
Shell will acquire the company’s participating interest in blocks offshore São Tomé and Príncipe, Suriname, Namibia and South Africa, Kosmos said in a statement.
Kosmos said it plans to use up to one-third of the initial sale proceeds of $100 million to test
European shares flat, Brexit tensions simmer - reuters.com
Nobel laureate Alexievich denounces Belarus 'terror' as another activist is detained - Reuters
(Reuters) - Nobel prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich accused the authorities in Belarus of terrorising their own people on Wednesday as another opposition politician was detained by masked men in plain clothes.
Maxim Znak was the latest figure to be seized in a systematic campaign by the government of President Alexander Lukashenko to round up leaders of a month-long mass protest movement.
“What is happening is terror against the people,” said Alexievich, who summoned supporters to her home. “We have to unite and not give up our