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Standard Chartered provides $200 million for Africa’s vaccine procurement
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Standard Chartered Bank said on Thursday it is providing $200 million in not-for-profit funding to the African Export-Import Bank's (Afreximbank) COVID-19 vaccine procurement f...
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UniCredit continues management overhaul
MILAN (Reuters) - UniCredit announced further senior management changes on Thursday, simplifying its leadership structure as part of new CEO Andrea Orcel's reorganisation of Italy's second-biggest ban...
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Cambodia urges fast action to avert coronavirus ‘tragedy’
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian health authorities called on Thursday for urgent public action to slow the spread of the coronavirus and avert a health and economic tragedy, after the country reporte...
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EU watchdog rejects call to ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp user data
DUBLIN (Reuters) - A European Union privacy watchdog rejected a call by Germany's lead data protection regulator for an EU-wide ban on Facebook's (FB.O) processing of personal data from its WhatsApp s...
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Cycling-Tour’s Bahrain Victorious team hotel and bus searched by police – police source
PAU, France (Reuters) - Police searched the accommodation and team bus of the Bahrain Victorious team on the Tour de France on Wednesday after the 17th stage, a police source told Reuters. The search ...
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IOC’s Bach says ‘zero’ risk of COVID spreading from participants
TOKYO (Reuters) - International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Thursday there was "zero" risk of Tokyo Olympics participants infecting Japanese residents with coronavirus, because cas...
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Olympics-Chad pins Olympic medal hope on judoka Memneloum
By Mahamat Ramadane N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Demos Memneloum's dream was just to qualify for the Olympics in the sport she loves and she achieved that this year when the 26-year old became Chad's first e...
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Pfizer says only in talks with government bodies in Thailand
(Reuters) - Pfizer on Thursday said it was only in talks with the Thai government, after a Thai hospital group said it was signing a deal for 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. "We are in ongoing ...
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Explainer: What’s at stake in WTO talks on fishing rules?
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Negotiators at the World Trade Organization have been trying for 20 years to agree how to cap subsidies that contribute to the overfishing of the world's seas and ocea...
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TSMC chairman says nobody wants war over Taiwan as chip supplies too valuable
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Nobody wants to see a war over Taiwan because nobody wants to disrupt the crucial global supply chain of semiconductors, the chairman of major chipmaker TSMC said on Thursday, in un...
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