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Google to introduce measures to curb online financial scams in UK
(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google on Wednesday announced measures to clamp down on financial fraud on its platform in Britain, saying it will require all financial services to be verified by the regul...
Jun 29, 2021
Olympics: 3×3 basketball-Japan’s ‘Worm’ out to prove host nation can hang with the elite
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top player in 3x3 basketball is eager to prove that the host nation can be medal contenders when the fast-paced sport makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo. The abs...
Jun 29, 2021
Karate-After long battle, karate gets long-awaited chance on biggest stage
By Chang-Ran Kim TOKYO (Reuters) - Karate has fought a long, hard battle to earn its place as an Olympic sport. Despite its 100 million practitioners worldwide, a solid place in popular culture and a ...
Jun 29, 2021
Swimming-Ledecky can rule the pool in post-Phelps era
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Tokyo will be the first Summer Games in a quarter of a century without Michael Phelps, the greatest of Olympic medal machines, but even if the giant has gone U.S. sw...
Jun 29, 2021
Cycling-Britain under threat on the boards? Or same old story?
By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Trying to knock Britain's track cyclists off their perch at the Olympics has proved a fruitless task for their rivals. Just when the Australians, Dutch, Americans a...
Jun 29, 2021
Saving the pangolin: One conservationist’s lifetime mission
By Minh Nguyen CUC PHUONG, Vietnam (Reuters) - Vietnamese conservationist Nguyen Van Thai recalls in detail the moment when, as a boy, he watched his neighbours dig up and kill a female pangolin that ...
Jun 29, 2021
Hockey-Tokyo spotlight offers game big chance to restore fading appeal
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - In a few weeks hockey players line up in Tokyo for the 24th time at the summer Olympics, knowing some fear its days as a core sport in the Games could be numbered ...
Jun 29, 2021
Saudi Arabia plans new national airline as it diversifies from oil
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced plans on Tuesday to launch a second national airline as part of a broader strategy to turn the kingdom into a global logisti...
Jun 29, 2021
Japan’s May factory output posts biggest monthly drop in a year
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's industrial output posted the biggest monthly drop in a year in May, as a sharp fall in car production threatened to undermine the country's economic recove...
Jun 29, 2021
U.S. military days away from completing Afghan withdrawal – sources
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military appears just days away from completing its withdrawal from Afghanistan, well ahead of the Sept. 11 deadline set by President Joe...
Jun 29, 2021
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