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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 26, 2022.

Wall St Set To Open Lower On Fed, Ukraine Jitters

U.S. stocks were set to open lower on Wednesday after stronger-than-expected retail sales data gave the Federal Reserve more ammunition to tighten policy, while geopolitical tensions over Russian and Ukraine added to caution.
Monitors displaying the stock index prices and Japanese yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar are seen after the New Year ceremony marking the opening of trading in 2022 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandem

Stocks Creep Up, Await Proof Of Ukraine De-escalation

World stocks crept higher on Wednesday for the second day in a row and safe-haven assets such as government bonds lost ground, though market moves were checked by Western scepticism that Russia had indeed pulled back troops from Ukraine's borders.
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Biden To Putin: Step Back From The Brink Of War With Ukraine

U.S. President Joe Biden made an impassioned appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back from war with Ukraine on Tuesday, speaking starkly of the "needless death and destruction" Moscow could cause and international outrage Putin would face.
A nurse (L) hands out a red ribbon to a woman, to mark World Aids Day, at the entrance of Emilio Ribas Hospital, in Sao Paulo December 1, 2014.

First Woman Reported Cured Of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant

A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday.
NY Times attorney David Axelrod questions James Bennet, who holds up a copy of the the New York Times newspaper paper, as Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor, watches during Palin's defamation lawsuit trial

Sarah Palin Loses Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times

A U.S. jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her libel lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming her in a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge already had said he would dismiss the case regardless of the verdict.

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