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Erdogan says may shut Iraqi border any moment: Hurriyet

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey may shut its border with northern Iraq "at any moment" after closing its air space to the region, Hurriyet newspaper reported Thursday, reviving a threat first made after Kurds there voted for independence. "We have completely closed our air...

Thirty years ago this week, Wall Street slid into the abyss

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thirty years ago, before heading to work at the New York Stock Exchange, Peter Kenny left his home in lower Manhattan and made a detour to the nearby Our Lady of Victory church to pray to St. Jude, the Roman Catholic patron saint of desperate and lost causes. The...

Jurors to weigh fraud charges against ex-HSBC executive

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Closing arguments in the U.S. trial of former HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) executive Mark Johnson came to an end Wednesday, with a lawyer for the government urging jurors to convict Johnson of defrauding a client. Prosecutors have claimed Johnson, the former head of...