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French far-right leader Le Pen plans to nationalise motorways if elected president
PARIS (Reuters) - Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday she would nationalise French motorways and privatise public television and radio channels if she wins the 2022 presidential election....
Sep 08, 2021
Three charged with stealing identities of Florida condo collapse victims
(Reuters) - A man and two women were arrested and charged with stealing the identities of seven victims of the Surfside condominium collapse near Miami Beach this summer and attempting to obtain credi...
Sep 08, 2021
Olympics – IOC says helped around 100 to leave Afghanistan
By Simon Evans (Reuters) - International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday that the organisation had helped around 100 members of the "Olympic community" in Afghanistan t...
Sep 08, 2021
U.S. trade chief sees ‘difficult logistical challenges’ for WTO summit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Wednesday spoke by phone with the head of the World Trade Organization and acknowledged the "difficult logistical challenges" facing a...
Sep 08, 2021
U.S. House panel to vote on pre-school, child care and tuition-free community college
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Publicly funded pre-school, child care subsidies and two years of tuition-free community college are on the agenda this week, when a U.S. House of Representati...
Sep 08, 2021
Ads for NBC’s broadcast of upcoming Super Bowl LVI have recently sold for $6.5 million -company
(Reuters) - Comcast-owned NBCUniversal has recently sold ads for the upcoming Super Bowl LVI for $6.5 million, a company executive said on Wednesday, an 18% increase from what ViacomCBS-owned CBS char...
Sep 08, 2021
Some Afghans evacuated from Kabul struggle to find help in U.S.
By Merdie Nzanga ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - After Fahima, 30, stepped off a plane at Dulles international airport in Virginia on Aug. 26th, she asked an immigration official what would happen to her ...
Sep 08, 2021
Amazon developing new point-of-sale system to attract small businesses – Insider
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is working on a new type of point-of-sale system that can be sold to third-party sellers, Insider reported on Wednesday. The new system can handle both online and offline tr...
Sep 08, 2021
Palestinians protest in support of escaped prisoners
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A few hundred Palestinians held protests in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in support of six militants who broke out of a maximum security Israeli jail this week i...
Sep 08, 2021
Go-to lawyer for U.S. Capitol riot defendants re-emerges after illness
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A lawyer who disappeared from public view while representing 17 defendants facing charges related to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot reemerged on Wednesday, telling a j...
Sep 08, 2021
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