By Lucy Papachristou
TBILISI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance will visit Armenia and Azerbaijan this week to push a Washington-brokered peace agreement that could transform energy and trade routes in the strategic South Caucasus region.
His two-day trip to Armenia, which begins later on Monday, comes just six months after the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders signed an agreement at the White House seen as the first step... (continue reading...)
LOS ANGELES, Feb 9 (Reuters) - U.S. seaports in January handled 6.8% less container import volume than the year-ago month, when U.S. companies rushed in goods to front-run President Donald Trump's tariffs and sent imports soaring to a record high for the month, supply chain technology provider Descartes Systems Group said on Monday.
Investors monitor U.S. container imports because they are a bellwether for economic health, including consumer... (continue reading...)
By Balazs Koranyi and Francois Murphy
VIENNA, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Europe must prepare to play a greater role in global finance given the dollar's retreat and needs to strengthen its financial architecture for the euro to take on a larger market share, European Central Bank policymaker Martin Kocher said.
The ECB last week unveiled plans to widen access to its euro liquidity backstop in a bid to boost the currency's global standing, and... (continue reading...)
ATHENS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Survivors of a shipwreck that killed 15 Afghan migrants off Greece last week said that the dinghy they were in did not change course or ram a coastguard vessel, contradicting the official account by authorities.
Fifteen people died in the shipwreck off the island of Chios on February 3. Two dozen others, including 11 minors, were rescued, some of them seriously injured, the coastguard said.
The coastguard said... (continue reading...)
AHMEDABAD, India, Feb 9 (Reuters) - India's Gujarat state said on Monday that it had signed a letter of intent with Elon Musk's Starlink to provide high-speed, satellite-based internet connectivity across remote and underserved regions of the western state.
(Reporting by Sumit Khanna, writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by YP Rajesh)
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