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Britain’s last evacuation flight could leave Kabul in 5 days -The Times
(Reuters) -Britain's last evacuation flight could leave Kabul in five days under an accelerated timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan, The Times newspaper reported. Ministers were told earlier thi...
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Fed Chair Powell to speak on ‘economic outlook’ next week
(Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will deliver a speech on "the economic outlook" next week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming at the Kansas City Fed's annual central banking conference, the Fed s...
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J&J says veteran Duato to replace Gorsky as chief executive
(Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday its Vice Chairman of Executive Committee Joaquin Duato will become chief executive officer from Jan. 3, replacing Alex Gorsky who has been at the helm for...
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Epic Games says Google paid phone and game makers to avoid $1-billion app store hit
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - "Fortnite" developer Epic Games on Thursday unsealed details about contracts it alleges Alphabet Inc's Google signed with phone makers and other top video game companies to ...
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Brazil reports 36,315 new COVID cases and 979 deaths in 24 hours -ministry
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil has had 36,315 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 979 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Thursday. The South American coun...
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Sorrento’s vaccine shows promise against coronavirus, variants in animal studies
(Reuters) - Sorrento Therapeutics Inc said on Thursday results https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.17.456704v1.full.pdf from animal studies show its experimental vaccine for COVID-19 has t...
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Scientists question evidence behind U.S. COVID-19 booster shot drive
By Deena Beasley and Ahmed Aboulenein (Reuters) - The Biden administration's plan to provide COVID-19 vaccine boosters is based on concerns that a decrease in the vaccines' ability to protect against ...
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New Zealand house price ‘madness’ to leave affordability stretched for years: Reuters poll
By Vivek Mishra BENGALURU (Reuters) - New Zealand's runaway housing market, which has accelerated rapidly during the pandemic, will cool next year, according to a Reuters poll of property market analy...
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‘Twilight’ investor sentenced to five years prison in fraud case
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A technology entrepreneur who invested in the studio behind the "Twilight" films was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after being convicted of fra...
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Syrian air defenses confront Israeli attack in Damascus -state TV
CAIRO (Reuters) - Syrian air defenses confronted on Thursday an "Israeli aggression" in the Damascus countryside, Syrian state-owned Ekhbariya TV and state news agency (SANA) said. A Syrian military s...
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