BEIRUT (Reuters) - Angry and grieving protesters on Tuesday read aloud the names of at least 171 people killed in last week’s explosion at Beirut port and called for the removal of Lebanon’s president and other officials they blame for the tragedy.

Gathered near “ground zero”, some carried pictures of the victims as a large screen replayed footage of the mushroom cloud that rose over the city on Aug. 4 after highly-explosive material stored for years detonated, injuring some 6,000

LONDON (Reuters) - British life insurer Prudential ( PRU.L ) said on Tuesday it planned to spin off its U.S. business Jackson to focus on Africa and its largest market Asia, responding to investor pressure for a split.

Prudential’s shares hit eight-week highs as investors cheered news the company would follow in the footsteps of

* Dollar slipping and stocks on the march

* MSCI AxJ +1%, Nikkei +1.85%, Hang Seng +2.3%

* U.S.-China trade talks eyed

* Asian stock markets: tmsnrt.rs/2zpUAr4 (Updates throughout, changes byline and dateline)

By Sujata Rao

LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - World stocks inched to 5-1/2 month highs on Tuesday, lifted by bets a U.S. fiscal stimulus package will be

(Reuters) - Domino’s Pizza Group Plc posted a 2.7% dip in first-half operating earnings on Tuesday, hurt by a fall in overall orders and the additional costs of cooking and delivering its pizzas safely in the coronavirus outbreak.

Britain

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China’s Tencent Holdings will be under pressure to address concerns on the impact of a U.S. ban on WeChat-related transactions and outline its plans to mitigate any fallout as it reports second-quarter results on Wednesday.

The ban, to take effect in September and the latest salvo in a worsening

(Reuters) - European stocks hit a near three-week high on Tuesday, as U.S. stimulus bets and encouraging data out of China and Germany galvanised growth-linked cyclical sectors like travel and leisure, banking and automakers.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed 1.7% higher, with Wall Street's S&P

(Reuters) - Goods made in Hong Kong for export to the United States will need to be labelled as made in China after Sept. 25, according to a U.S. government notice posted on Tuesday.

The move follows China’s imposition of a national security law on Hong Kong and a U.S. decision to end

MINSK (Reuters) - Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya said on Tuesday she had fled abroad for the sake of her children after strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko’s claim of victory in Sunday’s presidential election prompted bloody street protests.

Tikhanouskaya, a 37-year-old former English teacher who took her husband’s place on the ballot after he was jailed, fled to neighbouring Lithuania. She urged her compatriots not to oppose the police and to avoid putting their lives in danger.

But unrest erupted for a third

* Uniper is a financial backer of Nord Stream 2 project

* Risk of non-completion is increasing

* Uniper has committed to fund up to 950 mln eur (Adds German, Russian foreign ministers, paragraph 4)

By Christoph Steitz and Tom Käckenhoff

FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF, Aug 11 (Reuters) - German utility Uniper on Tuesday said it may have to impair a loan provided to the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if the project collapses in the face of U.S. sanctions.

“Pressure