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Regional powers at summit demand U.S. fund Afghan aid
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia, China, Pakistan and other regional states called on the United States on Friday to engage with the Taliban and fund aid to Afghanistan, though they also urged the former ins...
Sep 17, 2021
Sotheby’s to auction rare first printing of U.S. Constitution
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - An extremely rare official first-edition printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, as adopted by America's founding fathers at a convention in Philadelphia in 1787, will be pu...
Sep 17, 2021
HBO Max slashes prices in limited offer as streaming wars heat up
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc's HBO Max streaming service has halved its subscription fees in a limited-period offer to lure back millions of subscribers it lost after dropping out of Amazon.com Inc's Prime vi...
Sep 17, 2021
Swiss impose new COVID-19 requirements for some travellers
ZURICH (Reuters) -Travellers entering Switzerland who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 or recovered from the virus will need to provide a negative test result from Monday, the government said...
Sep 17, 2021
Mining firms in Mexico must face ‘strict’ scrutiny, says senior official
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mining companies in Mexico should expect tough environmental reviews given their projects' major impacts, a senior official told Reuters, insisting that a...
Sep 17, 2021
European fund giant Amundi says has $25 million China Evergrande exposure
LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's biggest asset manager Amundi's exposure to troubled Chinese property giant China Evergrade Group is currently $25 million, less than 10% of what it was earlier in the year,...
Sep 17, 2021
Exclusive: China Evergrande’s lenders weigh up loan losses, rolling over credit – sources
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - One of China Evergrande Group's main lenders has made provisions for losses on a portion of its loans to the embattled property developer, while some creditors are planni...
Sep 17, 2021
Brazil police raid pharmaceutical firm amid Senate vaccine probe
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian federal police raided the offices of Precisa Medicamentos, a Brazil-based pharmaceutical company, on Friday as part of a probe into potential irregularities in proc...
Sep 17, 2021
World needs to spend another $100 trln on U.N. fight against global woes – report
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - Global goals tackling poverty, inequality, injustice and climate change face a $100 trillion funding shortfall and are likely to be missed unless 10% of global econo...
Sep 17, 2021
Police respond to crash involving school bus
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police closed east bound Charter Oak Road at Orange Prairie around 7:20 a.m. Friday due to an accident. Thomas Bruch, Director of Public Relations and Community Engagement ...
Sep 17, 2021
Peoria, IL, USA
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