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Trump strikes SPAC deal for new social media platform, shares soar
(Reuters) - Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp rose 80% on Thursday after the publicly listed shell company said it would merge with a business owned by former U.S. President Donald Trump to cre...
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Philippines’ Duterte says he takes full responsibility for drugs war
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he took full responsibility for the bloody war on drugs that has killed thousands of people, but maintained he will never be t...
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WHO says studying Sweden pause of Moderna vaccine; Sputnik review resumed
GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization (WHO) advisory group is studying decisions in Sweden and Denmark to halt vaccinating young people with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine after 'very rare' myo...
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Why today’s economy can handle oil at $100 a barrel or higher
By Tommy Wilkes and Sujata Rao LONDON (Reuters) - For all the angst caused by this year's 65% oil price leap, concerns about a return to 1970s-style stagflation are overblown and the developed world, ...
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Benin parliament votes to legalise abortion
By Allegresse Sasse COTONOU (Reuters) - Benin's parliament has voted to legalise abortion in most circumstances, the health ministry said on Thursday, becoming one of only a handful of African countri...
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WHO urges G20 to step up vaccine donations to the south
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Thursday on the world's 20 richest nations, holding a summit next week, to step up donations of COVID-19 doses to the global south wher...
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India among 11 ‘countries of concern’ on climate change for U.S. spy agencies
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghanistan, India and Pakistan were among 11 countries singled out by U.S. intelligence agencies on Thursday as being "highly vulnerable" in terms of their ab...
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Footwear maker Crocs plans to outrun supply chain woes; shares jump
(Reuters) - Crocs Inc raised the lower end of its annual revenue forecast, as it prepares to counter supply constraints by shifting some production out of Vietnam where factory shutdowns have pinched ...
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Soaring Lebanese fuel prices deepen misery
By Issam Abdallah BEIRUT (Reuters) - Taxi drivers blocked roads in Beirut on Thursday in protest at spiralling petrol prices that are compounding misery for Lebanese already suffering the effects of a...
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Canada government, provinces agree COVID-19 vaccine travel passport – officials
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's federal government and the 10 provinces have agreed on a standard COVID-19 electronic vaccination passport allowing domestic and foreign travel, government officials told r...
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