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Boston Consulting teams up with carbon capture technology company
ZURICH (Reuters) - Boston Consulting Group has teamed up with carbon capture technology company Climeworks to help to develop its business, which focuses on capturing carbon dioxide directly from the ...
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Pakistan detects first Omicron case -health ministry official
KARACHI (Reuters) - Authorities in Pakistan have detected the first case of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in the South Asian nation, a provincial health ministry official told Reuters on Thursday...
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Number of jailed journalists reached global high in 2021, at least 24 killed for their coverage -CPJ report
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - The number of journalists worldwide who are behind bars reached a global high in 2021, according to a new report from the nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists, which ...
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Africa’s banks take on telcos in battle for upwardly mobile money
By Frank Phiri and Emma Rumney BLANTYRE (Reuters) - When Joyce Rejista ran out of money at a music festival she found herself in a familiar fix for villagers across Malawi, needing cash in places wher...
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Biden ‘Summit for Democracy’ to rally nations against rising authoritarianism
By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will gather 111 world leaders in a virtual meeting dubbed the Summit for Democracy, in what Washington hopes will be a ...
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Doctors weigh COVID-19 impact on children as vaccine drives ramp up
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - One month after her son Eran had recovered from a mild case of COVID-19, Sara Bittan rushed the three-year-old to the emergency room. He had high fever, a rash, ...
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Factbox-Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus
(Reuters) - Japan's COVID-19 infections are falling in contrast with rebounds in other parts of Asia, baffling experts, while cases have been spreading in pubs and clubs in Australia's biggest city. D...
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Chinese woman dies from H5N6 strain of bird flu
BEIJING (Reuters) - A woman in China's Sichuan province died from the H5N6 strain of avian influenza last month, a regional health bureau said this week, in the latest human fatality from the lethal d...
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North Carolina Supreme Court delays primary elections until May 2022
(Reuters) -The North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered primary elections in the state delayed from March until May of 2022, citing legal challenges to gerrymandered political maps. The court...
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Coronavirus spreads in Australia’s pubs; Omicron cases linked to party boat
SYDNEY (Reuters) - COVID-19 infections have been spreading in pubs and clubs in Australia's biggest city, including three new cases of the Omicron variant found among people who went on a harbour part...
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