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Germany tightens rules for unvaccinated travellers from Spain, Netherlands
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is classifying Spain and the Netherlands as areas with a high incidence of coronavirus, which means that unvaccinated travellers returning from those countries will have to ...
Jul 23, 2021
Baseball-Cleveland baseball team to change name to Guardians
(Reuters) - Cleveland's Major League Baseball team will change its name to the Guardians from the Indians starting next season, it announced on Twitter on Friday. In December, the team started a searc...
Jul 23, 2021
Nigerian court sentences 10 men to prison for 2020 Chinese ship hijacking
LAGOS (Reuters) - A court in Lagos sentenced 10 men to 12 years in prison on Friday for kidnapping the crew of a Chinese-flagged merchant vessel last year, the navy said, a verdict that officials hope...
Jul 23, 2021
Billionaire Thomas Barrack-backed SPAC withdraws IPO filing
(Reuters) - Falcon Peak Acquisition Corp, a blank-check company backed by former U.S. President Donald Trump's billionaire ally Thomas Barrack, on Friday withdrew its application for an initial public...
Jul 23, 2021
Exclusive-EU regulators likely to investigate Facebook’s Kustomer deal – sources
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are likely to kick off a full-scale investigation into Facebook's acquisition of U.S. customer service startup Kustomer after its initial review ends next ...
Jul 23, 2021
India’s Reliance quarterly profit falls as expenses weigh
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd posted a 7.2% fall in first-quarter profit on Friday, hurt by a surge in expenses. The company, led by billionaire Mukes...
Jul 23, 2021
U.S. top diplomat Blinken to visit India, Kuwait
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to India next week, the State Department said on Friday, the top U.S. diplomat's first visit to the world's largest democracy ...
Jul 23, 2021
Modern crocodile’s ‘grandfather,’ 150 million years old, discovered in Chile fossil
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A 150-million-year-old fossilized skeleton discovered in the mountains of southern Chile was determined to be the ancestor of the modern crocodile, the Argentine Museum of Nat...
Jul 23, 2021
Pakistan seeks U.N. probe of India’s use of Pegasus spyware
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan called on the United Nations on Friday to investigate whether India used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to spy on public figures including Prime Minister I...
Jul 23, 2021
Lagarde tames her biggest ECB rebellion through compromise and attrition
By Balazs Koranyi, Francesco Canepa and Frank Siebelt FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde tamed the biggest rebellion of her tenure this week through compromise, pe...
Jul 23, 2021
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