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Hard-won gains at risk as Delta variant spreads- WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) -The world is at risk of losing hard-won gains in fighting COVID-19, as the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads, but WHO-approved vaccines remain effective against the disease,...
Jul 30, 2021
Thieves flee with “substantial” haul after robbing Paris jewellery store
PARIS (Reuters) - Two people armed with a Taser and tear gas robbed a Dinh Van jewellery store in central Paris on Friday before fleeing on foot, two police sources said, with one of the sources sayin...
Jul 30, 2021
Rio’s homeless brave unprecedented cold
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - As an unusual cold snap stuns residents of Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian city famous for its sun, sand and sea, the city's homeless have been struggling to sleep through the c...
Jul 30, 2021
Healthcare group Fresenius raises 2021 forecasts
By Zuzanna Szymanska and Karl Badohal (Reuters) - German healthcare group Fresenius raised 2021 targets though it saw a weaker third quarter, saying progress on its cost-cutting plan should offset tro...
Jul 30, 2021
Peru mired in uncertainty as hopes of moderate administration dims
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru was mired in uncertainty on Friday as bonds tumbled and the local currency weakened after newly-elected Socialist President Pedro Castillo appointed hard-left Marxist as prime mi...
Jul 30, 2021
Factbox-What the U.S. securities regulator wants Chinese issuers to disclose
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will not process registrations of securities by Chinese companies unless they provide disclosures on the implicati...
Jul 30, 2021
Wildfire rages in remote Finnish valley
By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's worst wildfire in more than half a century scorched the country's northwest for a fifth day on Friday, tearing through forests left dry by record summer he...
Jul 30, 2021
‘Don’t want to miss it’: Robinhood IPO loyalists stay the course
By Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Rick Ornelas got into Robinhood Markets Inc's initial public offering (IPO) every way he could. As a user of the trading app, the Houston-based author of life-coaching books ...
Jul 30, 2021
Walmart to require masks for store workers in high-risk U.S. counties – WSJ
(Reuters) - U.S. retail giant Walmart Inc is reinstating a mask mandate for workers in U.S. counties deemed at high risk of COVID-19 transmission, the Wall Street Journal reported https://on.wsj.com/3...
Jul 30, 2021
Russia opens case against WhatsApp for violating personal data law
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday launched administrative proceedings against Facebook's WhatsApp for what it said was a failure to localise data of Russian users on Russian territory, the Interfax ...
Jul 30, 2021
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