By Iain Withers
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's largest asset manager BlackRock said on Tuesday it plans to launch a new investment platform in Saudi Arabia, backed by up to $5 billion from Saudi sovereign wealth fund the Public Investment Fund (PIF).
BlackRock and PIF said they had signed a memorandum of understanding under which BlackRock would establish a Riyadh-based multi-asset investment platform, anchored by PIF's initial cash... (continue reading...)
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that the United States is in talks with other countries to carve out an allowance for the U.S. research and development tax credit as part of the 15% global minimum tax deal.
"We are negotiating with other countries right now to try to get favorable treatment for the R&D tax credit and I am hopeful these negotiations will be successful," Yellen said... (continue reading...)
By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Families of Americans still detained in foreign countries despite recent prisoner swaps arranged by the Biden administration pleaded on Tuesday at least for more information about their loved ones, while waiting and hoping for their release.
"I literally have no idea what steps are being taken to rescue my husband," Anna Corbett, whose husband Ryan Corbett has been detained in Afghanistan, told... (continue reading...)
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's transition council on Tuesday named Edgard Leblanc, the former senate president, to head the body instated last week as it seeks to bring security back to the violence-wracked Caribbean nation.
Leblanc's naming follows weeks of political deadlock and in-fighting following the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry while an armed conflict surged in the capital, marking a difficult path ahead for the council.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that he will discuss with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu measures that Israel still needs to take to increase the flow of aid into Gaza, as he holds meetings in the country on Wednesday.
Blinken spoke to reporters at a warehouse of the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization where aid shipments from U.S.-based charities are gathered.... (continue reading...)
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