By Makiko Yamazaki
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's advisory panel tasked with growth strategies called on Friday for the government and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to be vigilant to the impact of the yen's depreciation.
The call reflects the government's growing concerns about a weak yen, a headache for Kishida's administration as the currency's decline pushes up households' cost of living by inflating the price of... (continue reading...)
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko who is wanted in the United States for allegedly paying bribes to Ghanaian officials on Friday won part of his appeal, but still faces extradition to the United States.
Berko was charged with six offences in New York in 2020 relating to his time working for Goldman Sachs.
He appealed against the decision to extradite him at London's High Court last month after a judge sent his... (continue reading...)
DUBAI (Reuters) - Houthi security forces have detained at least 15 Yemeni employees of international organisations including the United Nations, three officials of Yemen's internationally recognised government told Reuters on Friday.
In a series of raids on Thursday, armed Houthi intelligence officers detained nine U.N. employees, three employees of the U.S.-funded pro-democracy group National Democratic Institute (NDI) and three employees of a local... (continue reading...)
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Four Indian students have drowned in the Volkhov river in northwestern Russia, India said on Friday.
A fifth student was rescued and was receiving medical attention, the foreign ministry statement said. It was not immediately clear when the incident occurred.
Two of the four bodies were recovered while a search was continuing for the remaining two, the ministry said.
The students were studying at the... (continue reading...)
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors have apprehended two people suspected of being accessories to the killing of the award-winning hip-hop artist known by the alias C.Gambino, the prosecution agency said on Friday.
C.Gambino, who kept his identity hidden and wore a mask in public, was shot dead in a parking garage late on Tuesday in a suspected gang-related attack in Gothenburg on the Nordic country's west coast.
"Prosecutors have... (continue reading...)
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