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U.S. trade chief: Ethiopia’s duty-free market status to be decided ‘soon’
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Katherine Tai, U.S. global trade representative, said Washington would "soon" decide on Ethiopia's status under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), an agree...
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Tunisian president says he will withdraw diplomatic passport of former president Marzouki
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's president said on Thursday he will withdraw the diplomatic passport of former president Moncef Marzouki, who demanded France stop supporting the Tunisian regime, and asked ...
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Anger boils over in Cameroon region after gendarme kills 5-year-old
BUEA, Cameroon (Reuters) - A military police officer in the capital of Cameroon's restive English-speaking South West Region killed a five-year-old girl on Thursday when he fired on a car at a checkpo...
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New UK accounting body faces first big test with insurers
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's new body overseeing accounting rules following Brexit said it was braced for a "lot of noise" from the 1.7 trillion pound ($2.33 trillion) insurance sector ab...
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U.S. CFTC penalizes UBS $500,000 for failing to retain audio recordings
(Reuters) - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Thursday it sanctioned banking group UBS AG $500,000 for failing to retain certain audio recordings for the time required under CFTC r...
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Latin America to grow 5.9% this year, 2.9% in 2022, says U.N. economic body
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Latin America's economy is expected to grow 5.9% this year and 2.9% in 2022, which is not enough to recover from the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a regiona...
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Factbox-Front runners in development of antibody drugs against COVID-19
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Regeneron and GlaxoSmithKline are among the biggest players to have developed COVID-19 treatments using a class of drugs called monoclonal antibodies. Lab-made mono...
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Rights group urges Kuwait to overturn transgender woman’s conviction
DUBAI (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch on Thursday called on Kuwait to overturn a conviction against a transgender Kuwaiti woman sentenced this month to two years in prison for "imitating the opposite s...
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Nigeria phone blackout is helping us fight bandits, says top general
ABUJA (Reuters) - A telecoms blackout will be maintained in large swathes of northwest Nigeria because it is helping the armed forces crack down on bandits responsible for a wave of abductions and att...
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Czech president’s treatment will require time, wife says
PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech President Milos Zeman is undergoing treatment that will require time, his wife Ivana Zemanova told reporters on Thursday, but gave no details about his diagnosis or condition. ...
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