People rest at a shelter following fresh military clashes between Thailand and Cambodia, in Buriram province, Thailand. REUTERS/Prajoub Sukprom |
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Cranes and cargo ships at a terminal of the Yantian port in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang |
- China's exports topped forecasts in November, driven by a surge in shipments to non-US markets as manufacturers deepen trade ties with the rest of the world in light of Trump's prohibitively high tariffs.
- The US dollar drifted lower ahead of a week crammed with central bank meetings, headlined by the US Federal Reserve, where an interest rate cut is all but priced in, though a divided committee remains a wild card. Hear more on the Reuters Morning Bid podcast.
- US defense technology companies have roughly doubled their share of Pentagon contracts over the past year, but they face growing pains as they try to evolve from hot startups into heavyweights capable of building weapons at scale.
- A wave of flight cancellations by IndiGo, India's largest airline, sparked a week of chaos and grounded tens of thousands of passengers, laying bare the risks of having a duopoly-like situation in the world's fastest-growing aviation market.
- Shares in the Magnum Ice Cream Company traded at 12.96 euros per share, implying a market capitalization of $9.24 billion, as the company finalized its long-awaited spinoff from Unilever to list in Amsterdam.
- The chair of Ben & Jerry's independent board said she has no plans to resign as Unilever pressures her ahead of the public spinoff of its Magnum ice cream division. Magnum, a longtime division of the consumer goods conglomerate, said last month that the chair, Anuradha Mittal, "no longer meets the criteria" to serve after internal investigations.
- Could crypto replace holiday cash? More than one-in-four US adults, and nearly half of Gen-Z adults, say they would be excited to receive cryptocurrency as a gift.
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A year after Assad's fall, families of missing detainees search for answers |
Amina Beqai, holding a photo of her husband and brother, who went missing under the rule of the ousted President Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi |
A year after dictator Bashar al-Assad's ouster in Syria, little has changed in Amina Beqai's desperate quest. She types her missing husband's name yet again into an internet search box, hoping for answers to a 13-year-old question. In vain. A National Commission for Missing Persons has been gathering evidence of enforced disappearances under Assad, but has yet to offer families any clues on the estimated 150,000 people who vanished in his notorious prisons. |
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A calendar featuring Hungarian metalworkers posing half-naked sits at a steel workshop in Budapest, Hungary. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo |
Hungarian metalworkers model for an annual charity calendar in Budapest. The team published its first calendar last year and sold about 100 copies. They used the profits to buy a smart board for a school. This year they received about a thousand orders, allowing them to support several schools. |
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