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Exclusive-Olympics-Athletics-Advances in spike technology are laughable and unfair, says Bolt
By Kayon Raynor KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - Usain Bolt said that advances in spike technology that could help wipe out his world records are laughable and that the new shoes also give an unfair adva...
Jul 19, 2021
Berenberg sees $2-3 billion reinsurance losses from European floods
LONDON (Reuters) -Reinsurance losses from the recent European floods are likely to total $2-3 billion, Berenberg analysts said on Monday. Flooding has devastated parts of Western Europe since last Wed...
Jul 19, 2021
Exxon Mobil appoints former Diageo executive as finance head
(Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp said on Monday it appointed former Diageo Plc and United Airlines executive Kathryn Mikells as chief financial officer, effective Aug. 9. Mikells most recently held the fi...
Jul 19, 2021
Olympics-Tennis-Prospect of making history will outweigh empty seats -Djokovic
By Zoran Milosavljevic BELGRADE (Reuters) - The prospect of winning an Olympic gold medal for Serbia outweighs the disappointment of playing in an empty venue at the Tokyo games, the men's world tenni...
Jul 19, 2021
Women hardest-hit in pandemic job market, U.N. labour body says
GENEVA (Reuters) - Women have been hit harder than men by job losses around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and only men's employment is likely to recover this year to 2019 levels, the Interna...
Jul 19, 2021
Lebanon says consultations on new government will start next week
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon's presidency said parliamentary consultations to choose a new prime minister will begin on July 26 in another attempt to push Lebanon's fractious political class to form the ...
Jul 19, 2021
Israel seeks to tax disposables to reduce plastic use
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel plans to impose a steep purchase tax on disposable utensils to discourage their use and protect the environment, government agencies said on Monday. "We are drowning in di...
Jul 19, 2021
Speculators’ long Brazil real positions near record high, CFTC data shows
By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) - Funds and speculators on U.S. futures markets are their most bullish on the Brazilian real in more than four years, data showed, attracted to the currency by the...
Jul 19, 2021
‘Ridiculous’, travellers dismayed by UK quarantine measures for France
PARIS (Reuters) - Travellers about to board a train from Paris to London on the day quarantine rules in Britain were due to lapse were upset on Monday by a last-minute decision to keep them, calling i...
Jul 19, 2021
Liberals in Israeli government to discuss NSO spyware with defence minister
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A liberal party in Israel's governing coalition said on Monday it would ask the Defence Ministry about exports of Israeli spyware that media reports have linked to hacking of pho...
Jul 19, 2021
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