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Germany’s Merkel visits Pope, urges tougher market controls
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis on Saturday and, apparently responding to his criticism of a heartless “dictatorship of the economy”, called for stronger regulation of financial markets.
UPDATE 2-ENRC board rejects lowball offer from founding trio
* Independent directors say bid “materially undervalues” ENRC
Food aid reform is running into trouble in Congress
One of the attention-grabbing ideas in the White House’s 2014 budget was a big overhaul of the $ 1.4 billion U.S. food aid program. Instead of buying food from U.S. farmers and shipping it overseas, some of the money would … Continue reading
Tableau Software shares close up 64 percent in market debut
(Reuters) – Shares of Tableau Software Inc rose as much as 68 percent in their trading debut as investors expect the rising interest in big data to power the data analysis software maker’s growth.
‘Fanatical’ Gove attacked by union
The education secretary is like a “fanatical personal trainer” who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers’ leader is to say.
Exclusive: EU cites Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE for trade violations
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Europe’s top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.
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Exclusive: EU cites Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE for trade violations
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Europe’s top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.
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Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that country.
Tech, labor brandish dueling studies in immigration fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The technology industry and organized labor are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the U.S. Senate’s immigration bill.
Virus found in Iowa hog population, possibly beyond
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A potentially fatal hog virus, porcine epidemic diarrhea, has been found in the United States for the first time, government and private industry officials said on Friday, posing a new threat for the country’s struggling pork producers.