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Crisis-hit Ghana increases public servant salaries by 30%
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's government and trade unions on Thursday agreed to increase all public servants' salaries by 30% for 2023, they said in a joint statement, as the country struggles to reduce d...
Jan 12, 2023
Portugal approves new vetting system after string of hiring scandals
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's government said on Thursday future officials would from now on have to answer a questionnaire before they are appointed to prove they are fit for offic...
Jan 12, 2023
State Farm moves to outside company for IT work
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Bloomington-based State Farm insurance is essentially laying off workers as it switches to an outside entity that will manage its Information Technology infrastructure. India...
Jan 12, 2023
Other countries may follow Poland’s example on tanks, says Ukraine’s Zelenskiy
WARSAW (Reuters) - The support offered to Ukraine by Poland and Lithuania may mean that other countries will follow their example, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday, after Poland's presid...
Jan 12, 2023
CIA chief makes rare visit to Libya
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief William Burns made a rare trip to Libya on Thursday, meeting Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah in Tripoli, the Libyan government sai...
Jan 12, 2023
Grand jury files indictments in four recent shooting cases
PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria County grand jury this week filed charges in connection with four shooting incidents that occurred in recent months, according to court records. The grand jury filed char...
Jan 12, 2023
What we know about the Biden documents: A timeline
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - Here is a timeline of what has been disclosed about the classified documents that ended up in a temporary office used by President Joe Biden and at his home in Wilmingto...
Jan 12, 2023
Russia sees no danger from China’s relaxation of COVID measures – Tass
(Reuters) - Russia sees no dangers from Beijing's relaxation of measures to fight COVID-19 and will not impose extra restrictions on people arriving from China, Tass news agency cited a senior officia...
Jan 12, 2023
California lawsuit accuses drugmakers, pharmacy benefit managers of insulin overcharging
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - California is suing the United States' leading insulin makers and pharmacy benefit managers, accusing them of using their market power to overcharge patients for the lif...
Jan 12, 2023
Biden lawyer: we are confident documents were “inadvertently misplaced”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and his team are confident that a probe will show that the classified documents found at his home and a think tank were "inadvertently misplaced" and they wi...
Jan 12, 2023
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