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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.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People are seen on Wall St. outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid By Krystal Hu and Medha Singh (Reuters) – Wall Street closed mixed at the end of a volatile week of trading, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average being…

Pistons GT, Grizz Gaming and Mavs Gaming won their groups Friday night, advancing to the quarterfinals of the NBA 2K League’s The Tipoff tournament.Magic Gaming, who didn’t play Friday, also booked a playoff berth as the lone wild-card team joining seven group winners.The Pistons went 4-0 to roll through Group 7.Group 5 saw the Grizz…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People are seen on Wall St. outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid By Krystal Hu and Medha Singh (Reuters) – Wall Street ended mixed on Friday, with inflation concerns looming at the end of a volatile week of trading. The…

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP.TO) said on Friday it was willing to re-engage with Kansas City Southern (KSU.N), without raising its offer for the U.S. railroad operator, hoping that rival Canadian National Railway’s (CNR.TO) bid would be shot down by a U.S. tr…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Banco Santander’s chairwoman Ana Patricia Botin speaks during the annual results presentation at the bank’s headquarters in Boadilla del Monte, outside Madrid, Spain January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File Photo By Jesús Aguado and Rachel Armstrong MADRID (Reuters) – Santander (MC:SAN) expects to triple revenues in its payments business PagoNxt to around…