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Irish house price growth accelerates, up 4.5% year-on-year in April
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish residential property prices rose at the fastest annual pace for almost two-and-a-half years in April, up 4.5% year-on-year compared with a rise of 3.5% the previous month, Cen...
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Germany set to end work from home obligation, Merkel aide tells weekly
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will not extend beyond the end of June a rule which forces companies to allow working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic, Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staf...
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Bosnian woman awarded ‘Green Nobel’ for fighting to save river
By Daria Sito-Sucic KRUSCICA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Maida Bilal endured being beaten and harassed when she spent more than 500 days guarding the site of a planned mini hydropower plant on Bosnia's Krusci...
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Tennis-Venus, Murray handed Wimbledon wild cards
LONDON (Reuters) - Former champions Venus Williams and Andy Murray were named in Wimbledon's initial list of wildcards on Wednesday for this month's grasscourt Grand Slam. American Williams, who will ...
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The French campaigner rebuilding LGBT+ community’s trust in police
By Lea Guedj ORLEANS, France (Reuters) - Christophe Desportes-Guilloux is old enough to remember a time, decades ago, when French police would raid nightclubs and detain people like him for being gay....
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R-Zero, startup automating disinfecting born during pandemic raises $41.5 million
By Jane Lanhee Lee (Reuters) - San Francisco-based R-Zero, a startup formed during the pandemic to make ultraviolet disinfecting machines for commercial and institutional customers, said on Wednesday ...
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New York grapples with growing presence of homeless in midtown Manhattan
By Peter Szekely and Angela Moore NEW YORK (Reuters) - An influx of homeless people into Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood after an emergency move by New York City to ease crowding in shelters h...
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‘The way to survive’: North Korea ramps up recycling amid sanctions and pandemic
By Minwoo Park SEOUL (Reuters) - With anti-pandemic border closures throttling imports of goods such as plastic from China, North Korea's state media has described a massive focus on recycling as a wa...
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Polestar to make electric SUV at U.S. Volvo plant, starting in 2022
By Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) - Polestar, the premium electric vehicle maker owned by China's Geely and Volvo Cars, will build its Polestar 3 electric SUV at Volvo's U.S. plant in South Carolina st...
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Investors ask U.S. SEC for more ESG disclosures as companies resist
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investor groups have asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for more corporate disclosures on climate change and other environmental, social and go...
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