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New UK accounting body faces first big test with insurers
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's new body overseeing accounting rules following Brexit said it was braced for a "lot of noise" from the 1.7 trillion pound ($2.33 trillion) insurance sector ab...
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U.S. CFTC penalizes UBS $500,000 for failing to retain audio recordings
(Reuters) - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Thursday it sanctioned banking group UBS AG $500,000 for failing to retain certain audio recordings for the time required under CFTC r...
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Latin America to grow 5.9% this year, 2.9% in 2022, says U.N. economic body
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Latin America's economy is expected to grow 5.9% this year and 2.9% in 2022, which is not enough to recover from the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a regiona...
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Factbox-Front runners in development of antibody drugs against COVID-19
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Regeneron and GlaxoSmithKline are among the biggest players to have developed COVID-19 treatments using a class of drugs called monoclonal antibodies. Lab-made mono...
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Rights group urges Kuwait to overturn transgender woman’s conviction
DUBAI (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch on Thursday called on Kuwait to overturn a conviction against a transgender Kuwaiti woman sentenced this month to two years in prison for "imitating the opposite s...
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Nigeria phone blackout is helping us fight bandits, says top general
ABUJA (Reuters) - A telecoms blackout will be maintained in large swathes of northwest Nigeria because it is helping the armed forces crack down on bandits responsible for a wave of abductions and att...
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Czech president’s treatment will require time, wife says
PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech President Milos Zeman is undergoing treatment that will require time, his wife Ivana Zemanova told reporters on Thursday, but gave no details about his diagnosis or condition. ...
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White House ‘draft material’ on U.S. Supreme Court reforms due later Thursday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The commission formed by President Joe Biden to study potential U.S. Supreme Court changes such as expanding the number of justices or imposing term limits on them is set to rel...
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Putin says crypto currencies too unstable to be used for oil contracts
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that crypto currencies were too unstable to be used to settle oil contracts but that they still deserved a place as a means of payment. The Rus...
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Judge expected to sentence real estate heir Robert Durst to life for California murder
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - A California judge on Thursday is expected to give a mandatory life prison sentence to multimillionaire real estate heir Robert Durst, who was convicted last month of murd...
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