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Nigeria’s Twitter ban leaves some businesses in the lurch
By Nneka Chile LAGOS (Reuters) - Lagos-based entrepreneur Ogechi Egemonu was selling more than 500,000 naira ($1,219) worth of watches, shoes and handbags on Twitter per week. Now, with the site suspe...
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Britain’s Lloyds hires ex-DBS executive as COO
LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group has hired David Gledhill, a former executive of Singapore's DBS Bank, as group chief operating officer. Britain's biggest domestic bank said in a statement that...
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Euro zone production stronger than expected in April
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone industrial production was stronger than expected in April, driven by a more than doubling of durable consumer goods output from a year earlier as economies steadily reop...
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No breakthroughs expected from first Biden-Erdogan meeting
By Gabriela Baczynska and Humeyra Pamuk BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will discuss Ankara's purchase of Russian S-400 missiles during face-to-face ...
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S.Korea eases COVID-19 restrictions on concerts, sports games
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea began easing restrictions on large concerts and sports events on Monday after announcing last week it would loosen a series of coronavirus curbs as the coun...
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Ethiopia launches tender process to sell 40% stake in Ethio Telecom
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia on Monday launched a tendering process for the proposed sell-off of a 40% stake in state-owned carrier Ethio Telecom to private investors, part of the government's bro...
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Renew tradition every day: Bottura’s recipe for Ferrari’s new restaurant
By Giulio Piovaccari and Giulia Segreti MARANELLO, Italy (Reuters) - Food by triple Michelin starred chef Massimo Bottura will be served next to Ferrari engines when the car company relaunches the res...
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The Emirati oil deal that has infuriated Israeli environmentalists
By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The first cargo ships from Dubai that docked last year in the Mediterranean port of Haifa were met by celebration in Israel. Flags waved. Reporters gathered. T...
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U.S journalist Nathan Maung released from detention in Myanmar – lawyer
(Reuters) - U.S. citizen Nathan Maung has been released from detention in Myanmar and is due to fly out of the country on Tuesday, his lawyer Tin Zar Oo told Reuters. A court dismissed the case agains...
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Russia reports 13,721 daily COVID-19 cases, 371 deaths
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported 13,721 new coronavirus cases, including 6,590 in the capital, on Monday, after the number of daily infections rose sharply last week and Moscow declared a four-day p...
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