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The Year of the Doge? 2021, crypto’s wildest year yet
By Tom Wilson and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin close to $70,000, "memecoins" worth billions of dollars, a blockbuster Wall Street listing and a sweeping Chinese crackdown: 2021 was th...
Dec 30, 2021
Tennis-Serbian Lajovic unsure of Djokovic’s Australian Open plan
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic did not tell his Serbian team mates why he was pulling out of the ATP Cup team event, said compatriot Dusan Lajovic on Thursday, adding that he is unsure if the world...
Dec 30, 2021
Thousands message late Chinese COVID whistleblower doctor 2 years on
By Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Thousands of people left messages on the social media account of the late Chinese COVID-19 whistleblower Li Wenliang on the anniversary of the day he learne...
Dec 30, 2021
ECB’s Knot: good chance inflation remains above 2% after 2022
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Inflation in the euro zone could very well exceed the European Central Bank's (ECB) current projections for the coming years, ECB governing council member Klaas Knot said in an i...
Dec 30, 2021
Factbox-Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus
(Reuters) - Global COVID-19 infections hit a record high over the past seven-day period, as the Omicron variant raced out of control and governments tried to contain its spread without paralysing frag...
Dec 30, 2021
U.S. at risk of paying ‘unbearable price’ over Taiwan – senior Chinese diplomat
BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States is at risk of paying an "unbearable price" due to its actions over Taiwan, Wang Yi, state councillor and foreign minister, said in an interview with state media o...
Dec 30, 2021
Russian services sector shrinks in December as COVID-19 takes toll – PMI
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's service sector contracted for a third straight month in December as the volume of new orders shrank, while business confidence fell to its lowest level in more than a year,...
Dec 30, 2021
For struggling Afghan family, the next meal is a matter of faith
By James Mackenzie, Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Ali Khara BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - As winter sets in, Afghan widow Kubra needs to find fuel to heat the single room where eight family members live...
Dec 30, 2021
Women force change at Indian iPhone plant, sick from bad food, crowded dorms
By Sudarshan Varadhan, A. Ananthalakshmi and Ahmed Farhatha SRIPERUMBUDUR, India (Reuters) - For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets a...
Dec 30, 2021
Australia relaxes testing rules amid Omicron surge
By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Thursday narrowed its definition of close contacts of coronavirus cases and relaxed requirements for COVID-19 tests, as daily cases topped 20,000 for the ...
Dec 30, 2021
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