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Grab to take majority stake in Indonesia e-wallet OVO
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asian ride-hailing and payments firm Grab will more than double its stake in Indonesian e-wallet OVO to 90%, the Indonesian firm said on Monday, pending approval from r...
Oct 04, 2021
Prosecutors try to reverse acquittals in Hariri blast case at Lebanon Tribunal
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon seeking to overturn the acquittal of two men over the 2005 assassination of Lebanese former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri said on...
Oct 04, 2021
Nairobi’s fuel dispensers replace charcoal, kerosene with biofuel
By Jackson Njehia NAIROBI (Reuters) - In Kenya's capital Nairobi, restaurant owner Miriam Kamau lifts a steaming ladle of food from a stove burning locally produced ethanol - a fuel made from the bypr...
Oct 04, 2021
Americans Julius and Patapoutian win 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch, the award...
Oct 04, 2021
Motor racing-Formula E reports 32% rise in TV audience for season seven
LONDON (Reuters) - The electric Formula E series saw a 32% year-on-year rise in global television audiences last season with free-to-air deals in key markets driving the growth after a pandemic-hit 20...
Oct 04, 2021
Spain’s foreign tourism soars but well below pre-pandemic level
MADRID (Reuters) - Foreign tourism to Spain rose rapidly in August as looser travel restrictions tempted back summer sunseekers though visitor numbers remained at around half their pre-pandemic levels...
Oct 04, 2021
G20 urged to drive better environmental, social investing practices
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - The world's biggest economies need to do more to ensure environmental, social and governance-related ratings and investments are effective in the transition to a low...
Oct 04, 2021
Lebanon judge investigating port blast kept on case by judiciary – local media
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The lead judge investigating the disastrous Beirut port blast will be kept on the case after Lebanon's court of cassation rejected a legal complaint filed against him, local media r...
Oct 04, 2021
Analysis-Eye on polls, Turkey’s Erdogan may regret rate cut he pushed for
By Nevzat Devranoglu, Orhan Coskun and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan's belief that a shock interest rate cut will stoke up Turkey's economy ahead of elections is instead ...
Oct 04, 2021
J&J to seek U.S. FDA authorisation of booster shot this week – NYT
(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson is planning to ask U.S. federal regulators this week to authorize a booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing officials familiar...
Oct 04, 2021
