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Indians give outright release to C Rene Rivera
The Cleveland Indians released veteran catcher Rene Rivera on Friday, six days after he was designated for assignment. Rivera, 37, was taken off the active roster Saturday when catcher Roberto Perez w...
Jul 09, 2021
Volkswagen hands CEO Diess contract extension ahead of strategy presentation
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Volkswagen on Friday handed Chief Executive Herbert Diess a contract extension under which he will lead the carmaker until October 2025, the group said, a victory made possible by...
Jul 09, 2021
Cuban drug regulator gives emergency approval to Abdala COVID-19 vaccine
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's drug regulator announced on Friday it had granted emergency approval of the Abdala COVID-19 vaccine, which is already being deployed on the Caribbean island nation amid a sur...
Jul 09, 2021
Post-pandemic public debt cannot be cancelled, says ECB’s Villeroy
PARIS (Reuters) - The governor of France's central bank on Friday told President Emmanuel Macron that the country's heavy public debt, bloated by spending to safeguard jobs and growth during the pande...
Jul 09, 2021
Golf-Out of bounds: Spectator takes swing with McIlroy’s club in Scottish Open drama
(Reuters) - Rory McIlroy's second round at the Scottish Open got off to a bizarre start on Friday when a spectator came to the tee and took a club from his golf bag. A video https://twitter.com/IrishG...
Jul 09, 2021
Russia’s Yandex pulls out of deal to buy online fashion retailer KupiVIP
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian tech giant Yandex said on Friday it was pulling out of a deal to buy online fashion retailer KupiVIP, but is considering alternative outlets in the fashion sector. Yandex sa...
Jul 09, 2021
Hackers breach Iran rail network, disrupt service
DUBAI (Reuters) - Train services in Iran were delayed by apparent cyberattacks on Friday, with hackers posting the phone number of the country's supreme leader as the number to call for information, s...
Jul 09, 2021
European stocks rise on bargain-hunting, erase weekly losses
(Reuters) - European stocks jumped more than 1% on Friday, posting their best session in two months and erasing all of this week's losses, as investors sought bargains after one of the worst sell-offs...
Jul 09, 2021
Death toll in Florida condo collapse rises to 78
(Reuters) - The confirmed death toll in the collapse of a Miami-area condominium tower increased to 78 on Friday after workers pulled the remains of an additional 14 people from the rubble of the buil...
Jul 09, 2021
Find $75 billion to head off next pandemic, top panel tells G20
By Gavin Jones VENICE (Reuters) - COVID-19 is probably only a forerunner of increasingly dangerous pandemics in the future and governments need to find $75 billion over the next 5 years to prepare for...
Jul 09, 2021
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