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(Adds details from statement, background)May 28 (Reuters) – A.G. Barr said on Friday sales of its soft drinks and cocktail mixes have been strong since the start of the year as people went back to leisure drinking after months of lockdowns, putting the company on track to meet its annual targets.The company, best known for…

Nearly 30 years after Kurdish lawyer Yusuf Ekinci was gunned down and his body dumped by a highway, his lawyer son is still seeking justice in one of hundreds of cases of extrajudicial killings.

Indian shares were little changed on Wednesday, as gains in energy and consumer discretionary stocks were countered by losses in financials and materials.

BENGALURU, May 26 (Reuters) – Indian shares were little changed on Wednesday, as gains in energy and consumer discretionary stocks were countered by losses in financials and materials.The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index was up 0.07% at 15218.05 by 0403 GMT, while the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex was 0.08% higher at 50,686.31.Reliance Industries Ltd, down…

(Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed slightly lower on Tuesday, and each of Wall Street’s main indexes failed to stray far from the unchanged mark following a rally in the prior session as investors continue to try and assess the route of inflation.FILE PHOTO: The front facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen…

At the entrance to Bab Tadmor, a neighbourhood of Homs that was once a rebel stronghold, an election billboard showing a smiling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hangs down the side of a bombed out building.

U.S. stocks climbed on Monday, with both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq rallying more than 1% as a pullback in U.S. Treasury yields helped lift expensive stocks in sectors such as technology as investors attempt to gauge the path of inflation.

Western politicians accused Belarus on Monday of state piracy amounting to a “warlike act”, searching for a way to retaliate that would match the gravity of the offence after Minsk forced an airliner down and arrested a dissident journalist.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans and the White House could have as little as a week to 10 days to overcome their differences on infrastructure and strike a deal to revitalize America’s roads and bridges, a top Republican said on Sunday.FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) faces reporters after the Senate Republican lunch on…

Major Gulf stocks were mixed early on Sunday, with the Dubai index on track to extend gains for a fifth consecutive session, buoyed by property companies.