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Chinchilla challenge: findings on Gold Fields’ relocation efforts due within months -Chilean regulator
By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean environmental regulator's probe into whether a group of endangered short-tailed chinchillas was harmed by attempts to move them so that a gold mine cou...
Jul 06, 2021
Sydney COVID-19 lockdown to be extended for another week -media reports
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A two-week COVID-19 lockdown in Australia's largest city of Sydney will be extended for another week in a bid to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta virus variant, lo...
Jul 06, 2021
Canadian indigenous group takes charge of child welfare services
By Shannon VanRaes COWESSESS FIRST NATION, Saskatchewan (Reuters) -The Canadian indigenous group that announced last month the discovery of an estimated 751 unmarked graves near a former residential s...
Jul 06, 2021
U.S. drops financial crisis-era prosecution of four Wilmington Trust executives
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday ended its criminal case accusing four former Wilmington Trust Co executives of hiding troubled loans from regulators after the 2008 finan...
Jul 06, 2021
U.S. Republican National Committee says its data not accessed in hack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Republican National Committee said on Tuesday an investigation by Microsoft had found that no RNC data had been accessed as a result of a hack of third-party provider S...
Jul 06, 2021
Huawei lawsuit against Verizon heads to trial in Texas
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A lawsuit filed by Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd against Verizon Communications alleging patent infringement is set t...
Jul 06, 2021
‘Annette’ kicks off Cannes with all-singing tale of twisted love
CANNES, France (Reuters) - A musical starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as lovers caught in an ominous relationship kicked off the Cannes movie competition on Tuesday, bringing rock riffs and o...
Jul 06, 2021
French e-commerce startup ManoMano tops $2 billion valuation after new fundraising
PARIS (Reuters) - French online home improvement retailer ManoMano reached $2.6 billion in valuation after a $355 million fundraising led by investment firm Dragoneer, it said on Tuesday. San Francisc...
Jul 06, 2021
Factbox-Unmarked graves found at Canadian former residential school sites
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada has been rocked by the disclosures of more than 1,000 unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools - institutions that were part of an abusive system that the ...
Jul 06, 2021
Explosive-laden drone hit Erbil airport in Iraq, aimed at U.S. base -security sources
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A drone attacked Erbil airport in northern Iraq with explosives on Tuesday, aimed at the U.S. base on the airport grounds, Kurdish security sources said. Sirens were blaring from th...
Jul 06, 2021
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