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Britain’s Tesco joins refillable revolution with in-store trial
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest supermarket group Tesco launched a trial on Monday that allows customers to buy food, drink, household and beauty products in reusable packaging, part of its strat...
Sep 13, 2021
Water music: London canal boat serves as floating concert hall
By Ben Makori LONDON (Reuters) - Music lovers in London can now enjoy classical performances with a difference - on a canal boat traversing the city's waterways. Masayuki Tayama, the captain and piani...
Sep 13, 2021
Taliban breaking promises including over women, says U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations' human rights chief criticised on Monday the Taliban's record since seizing power in Afghanistan, saying stated commitments did not match realities on the ground s...
Sep 13, 2021
Exclusive-Volkswagen’s China partners bristle as carmaker lavishes love on new venture
By Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - Volkswagen is in talks to tighten its grip on a majority-owned joint venture in China, sparking tensions with the German automaker's other Chinese partn...
Sep 13, 2021
Soccer – Serie A weekend talking points
By Peter Hall (Reuters) - Talking points from the weekend's Serie A matches. ALLEGRI AND JUVE A MESS OF THEIR OWN MAKING Massimiliano Allegri's second coming at Juventus just gets worse by the week. H...
Sep 13, 2021
Greece to spend 4 billion euros on pandemic support in second half of 2021
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will pump an additional 4.4 billion euros into its economy in the second half of the year to prop up businesses and households battered by the coronavirus pandemic, Finance M...
Sep 13, 2021
U.N. rights chief regrets lack of access to Xinjiang
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' rights chief lamented on Monday that efforts to gain access to China's Xinjiang region to probe reports of serious violations against Muslim Uyghurs have not suc...
Sep 13, 2021
Marketmind: September setback
A look at the day ahead from Sujata Rao. After seven straight months of gains, world stocks are enduring a dismal September, touching a 2-1/2-week low on Monday. Wall Street futures are higher but the...
Sep 13, 2021
Environmental threats are biggest challenge to human rights: UN
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. rights chief on Monday said that the "triple planetary crises" of climate change, pollution and nature loss, represented the single biggest threat to human rights globally....
Sep 13, 2021
Uber will appeal Dutch ruling that drivers are employees
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Uber will appeal a Dutch court ruling that drivers are employees of the company and not independent contractors that make use of its platform, the company said on Monday. "We are...
Sep 13, 2021
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