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Canada to accept 20,000 vulnerable Afghans such as women leaders, human rights workers
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada plans to resettle more than 20,000 vulnerable Afghans including women leaders, human rights workers and reporters to protect them from Taliban reprisals, Immigration Minister ...
Aug 13, 2021
Mississippi hospital puts beds in parking garage to cope with COVID-19 surge
By Anurag Maan and Julia Harte (Reuters) - The crush of new COVID-19 infections in Mississippi has become so dire that the state has turned to efforts reminiscent of the earliest days of the U.S. pand...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. trade agency finds Google infringed five Sonos patents
(Reuters) - A judge at a U.S. trade agency on Friday found that Google audio players infringed five patents belonging to Sonos Inc. Charles Bullock, the chief administrative law judge of the U.S. Inte...
Aug 13, 2021
Britain’s drug regulator set to make 25% of its staff redundant -FT
(Reuters) - Britain's drug regulator is set to make 25% of its staff redundant amid financial pressures, with up to 300 staff members being at risk of losing their jobs, the Financial Times reported o...
Aug 13, 2021
Wall Street Week Ahead: Investors give value stocks a second look as bond yields rally
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. value stocks may be getting a second wind, as bets on economic strength bolster Treasury yields and lift cyclically-sensitive shares that have stagnated in...
Aug 13, 2021
Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith dies at age 68
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has died at age 68, record label Rounder Records said in a statement on Twitter on Friday. (Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing ...
Aug 13, 2021
Canada on track to meet ambitious 2021 immigration target, minister says
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is on track to meet its goal of 401,000 new permanent residents this year after adding record numbers in June and July, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino ...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. immigration advocates blast ‘cruel’ Biden policies on asylum
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dozens of pro-immigrant groups criticized President Joe Biden's asylum policies on Friday, saying continued expulsions of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and ot...
Aug 13, 2021
Tunisian president receives U.S. delegation carrying message from Biden
CAIRO (Reuters) - Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday received an official U.S. delegation headed by deputy national security adviser Jonathan Finer, who carried a written message from President J...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. dollar net longs hit highest since early March 2020 – CFTC, Reuters estimate
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. dollar net longs rose in the latest week to their highest since early March last year, according to Reuters calculations and Commodity Futures Tra...
Aug 13, 2021
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