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AMC Entertainment shares rise more than 50%
(Reuters) - Shares in cinema operator AMC Entertainment were up 50.2% at $29.38 in a high-volume trading session on Thursday after rising as high as $29.72 earlier. AMC, which is popular on social med...
May 27, 2021
WHO, GAVI seek 190 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by end-June to fill gap
GENEVA (Reuters) - The COVAX vaccine-sharing facility urgently needs 190 million doses by the end of June to fill a gap left by India halting vaccine exports, as the virus surges in South Asia, the GA...
May 27, 2021
Soccer-Chelsea’s Alonso bids to keep European Cup finals in the family
By Richard Martin (Reuters) - All players involved in Saturday's Champions League final can expect their families to be watching closely but none will quite have the experience of Chelsea's Marcos Alo...
May 27, 2021
Local COVID roundup 5/27: 3 additional deaths
PEORIA, Ill. — After reporting zero area deaths related to COVID-19 on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Peoria City/County Health Department Thursday reported three such deaths. A Peoria County male i...
May 27, 2021
Regional bloc holds off on military response to Mozambique insurgency
MAPUTO (Reuters) - A bloc of southern African nations said on Thursday it will work to shore up Mozambique's security forces as they battle an escalating insurgency linked to Islamic State, but made n...
May 27, 2021
Russia’s Sberbank unit unveils self-driving vehicle FLIP
MOSCOW (Reuters) - SberAutoTech, a subsidiary of Russia's largest lender Sberbank, has developed a fully self-driving vehicle, FLIP, which the company on Thursday described as a "taxi of the future". ...
May 27, 2021
France reports 3,206 people in intensive care units with COVID-19
PARIS (Reuters) - France on Thursday reported that the number of people in intensive care units with COVID-19 fell by 124 to 3,206, while the overall number of people in hospital with the disease fell...
May 27, 2021
Libyan townsfolk hope unity rule will end their isolation
By Ahmed Elumami BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) - In Libya's Bani Walid, flags of ousted autocrat Muammar Gaddafi still fly in some places and streets are ragged with neglect, but its residents have new ...
May 27, 2021
Democrat makes plea for U.S. Capitol riot probe as Senate nears vote
By Susan Cornwell and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A moderate Democrat made an eleventh-hour appeal on Thursday to Republicans in the U.S. Senate to support a commission to investigate the dead...
May 27, 2021
Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau trade barbs on social media
Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau raised the temperature of their simmering feud over social media. The feud dates back to the 2019 Northern Trust, when Koepka was among multiple PGA Tour players to...
May 27, 2021
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