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Volvo Cars to buy parent Geely Holding’s stake in China JVs
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden's Volvo Car Group said on Wednesday it had struck a deal to buy out parent company Geely Holding from their joint ventures in China, aiming to take full ownership of its fa...
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Olympics-Soccer-Brazil’s veteran Alves feels ‘butterflies’ ahead of Germany opener
By Simon Evans TOKYO (Reuters) - Brazil's Olympic football men's team captain Dani Alves has played on the game's biggest stages but says he is still feeling pre-tournament 'butterflies' ahead of Thur...
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Olympics-Five rings up in Tokyo sky as competition gets underway
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese pilots drew the five Olympic rings over Tokyo on Wednesday in a practice flight ahead of a similar manoeuvre which is scheduled for later this week to mark the official star...
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Full customs checks risk becoming ‘incendiary’ in N.Ireland, M&S says
LONDON (Reuters) - The introduction of full customs checks between Britain and Northern Ireland risks becoming "incendiary" when the province's customers see higher prices, empty shelves and the loss ...
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Suzuki and Daihatsu join Toyota EV joint venture
TOKYO (Reuters) - Suzuki Motor Corp and Daihatsu are joining a commercial electric vehicle coalition led by Toyota Motor Corp, the carmakers announced on Wednesday, helping the Japanese alliance expan...
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France expresses support for Cyprus in light of latest Turkish moves
PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian expressed support for Cyprus on Wednesday, after a move by Turkish Cypriot authorities to partially reopen an abandoned town for po...
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No more survivors likely to be found in German flood zone-relief official
BERLIN (Reuters) - Rescue crews are unlikely to find any more survivors among the rubble of villages devastated by floods in western Germany, a senior Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) officia...
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SoftBank’s robotics ambitions short circuit as Pepper loses power
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - When SoftBank Group Corp's CEO Masayoshi Son unveiled the wide-eyed android Pepper in 2014, he painted a vision, once confined to science fiction, of a new era of perso...
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Floods wreck towns, but Europe’s wind power goals tangled in red tape
By Nina Chestney, Angeliki Koutantou and Stephen Jewkes EVIA, Greece (Reuters) - Climber Tassos Baltas points up at a 22-metre high mast which is monitoring wind speeds on the summit of a rocky hillsi...
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Marketmind: A rocky road
A look at the day ahead from Karin Strohecker Markets are still trying to find their feet after Monday's bruising selloff and now the focus is shifting to Thursday's ECB meeting in a week that's seen ...
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