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Factbox: CBO estimate leaves U.S. budget shortfall for infrastructure bill backers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congressional Budget Office on Thursday issued its long-awaited judgment that a $1 trillion infrastructure bill being debated in the U.S. Senate will be far from fully ...
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Haiti requests U.N. commission to probe president’s killing
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Haiti's government has requested help from the United Nations to conduct an international investigation into the killing last month of President Jovenel Moise, the country's ...
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Olympics-Two Belarus officials stripped of Games accreditation, sent home – source
By Karolos Grohmann TOKYO (Reuters) -Two Belarus Olympic officials involved in attempting to force sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya to return home from the Tokyo Olympics have had their Games accredit...
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U.S. senators to reintroduce bill targeting Cambodian officials on rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. senators said on Thursday they plan to reintroduce legislation that would provide for sanctions to freeze assets of senior Cambodian officials who undermine democra...
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Indonesian blockbuster IPO to set tone for Southeast Asia tech sector
By Anshuman Daga and Fransiska Nangoy SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The first listing of a multibillion-dollar Southeast Asian tech company in Indonesia on Friday will set the benchmark for IPO hopefuls in a ...
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Silicon Valley workers vote down union at SoftBank-backed MapBox
By Julia Love SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Workers of location data startup Mapbox said on Thursday that they had lost their bid to form a union to represent the company's U.S.-based employees, in a setb...
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‘A cautionary tale’: Louisiana doctors face a different COVID-19 surge
By Brad Brooks NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Doctors in Louisiana have been through it before: the exhaustion, the grief, and the overflowing intensive care units. But this new surge of COVID-19 cases drive...
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Brazil reports 40,054 COVID cases and 1,099 deaths in 24 hours -ministry
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil has had 40,054 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 1,099 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Thursday. The South American co...
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Britain to invest 5 million stg in climate resilience research
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has launched a 5 million pound ($7 million) research programme to help better prepare for risks posed by climate change such as heatwaves and floods, the government said on ...
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U.S. Senator Joe Manchin urges Fed to reduce asset purchases to minimize inflation risks
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin urged the Federal Reserve to start withdrawing some of its economic support in a letter to Fed Chair Jerome Powell in which the moderate Democrat...
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