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Two recent incidents involving young children who refused to wear face masks show how airlines are struggling to balance safety with compassionate treatment of all their customers during a pandemic.

India's ambassador to the United States said on Thursday concluding current negotiations on a limited trade deal would be a crucial step towards a comprehensive bilateral trade pact between the two nations.

Some members of the OPEC+ group of oilproducing nations would need to slash output by an extra 2.31 million barrels per day (bpd) to make up for their recent oversupply, an internal OPEC+ report seen by Reuters shows.

Rice export prices in tophub India edged higher this week as floods and surging coronavirus cases hammered supply and export logistics.

Food giant Nestle is launching a new plantbased tuna alternative in Switzerland this month ahead of a global rollout, hoping that consumers eating at home during the COVID19 pandemic will stay eager to try new products.

The Wadhawan brothers, however, will remain in jail as they have also been booked by the CBI in the same multi-crore fraud case.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has drawn criticism from Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives with his proposal to suspend the constitutionally enshrined debt brake in 2021 after abandoning it this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Shares in French hotels group Accor rose 1.9% in early trading on Thursday after Le Figaro newspaper reported that the company had examined a potential merger with British rival InterContinental Hotels.

The COVID19 pandemic is giving German bicycle retailers a boost as consumers avoid public transport because of the risk of infection, the Ifo economic institute said on Thursday.

Long positions across most Asian currencies were comfortably raised, a Reuters poll found, as investors turn increasingly optimistic of the region's economic rebound with confidence in the U.S. dollar waning and China primed for a recovery.

The BSE Sensex was trading 344.53 points or 0.89 per cent lower at 38,270.26; while NSE Nifty was down 92.80 points or 0.81 per cent at 11,315.60.

Asian equities and U.S. futures fell on Thursday, hurt by the U.S. Federal Reserve's cautious view of the economy, tensions with China and new clusters of coronavirus infections.

Several Federal Reserve policymakers say the U.S. central bank may need to ease monetary policy further to help nurse the economy through the coronavirus pandemic, minutes from their policy meeting last month showed on Wednesday.

The dollar and global equity markets rose on Wednesday and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hit fresh alltime highs, but Wall Street retreated after the Federal Reserve nixed, for now, dovish monetary policy measures such as yieldcurve control.

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Wednesday President Donald Trump wants to deny China some of the proceeds from the sale of ByteDance's U.S. operations of its videosharing app TikTok, but it would be unusual for any company that acquires...

The European Union is due to announce in the next few weeks how long derivatives clearing houses in Britain can continue serving EU customers after Britain's Brexit transition ends on Dec. 31.