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Colombia boosts budding cannabis industry by removing ban on dry flower exports
By Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia on Friday gave the green light for exports of dried cannabis for medical and other industries, as the Andean country took another step to develop its ma...
Jul 23, 2021
Pentagon says report that U.S. approved Chinese drone for purchase ‘inaccurate’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon said on Friday that drones produced by Chinese manufacturer Da Jiang Innovations (DJI) pose a potential threat to national security and that a media report that they...
Jul 23, 2021
IDPH: Nearly 8,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last week
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Friday reported 7,983 new cases of COVID-19, including 47 additional deaths since last Friday. According to IDPH, more than 73...
Jul 23, 2021
Over 71% of Lebanon’s population risks losing access to safe water – UNICEF
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations warned on Friday that more than four million people in Lebanon, including one million refugees risked losing access to safe water as shortages of funding, fuel an...
Jul 23, 2021
Beijing tutoring crackdown slams U.S.-listed Chinese stocks
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Fears of increased of regulation from Beijing crushed U.S.-listed Chinese stocks on Friday following a Chinese government crackdown on private educators. U.S. shares of T...
Jul 23, 2021
COVID-19 outbreak at Oregon’s Bootleg blaze sidelines 9 firefighters
By Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - The first COVID-19 outbreak among firefighters battling the enormous Bootleg fire in Oregon has put nine of them in quarantine as weather forecasters on Friday warned t...
Jul 23, 2021
Five metrics bond investors are watching as COVID fears return
By David Randall and Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - A wild week in Treasuries has investors parsing the cross-currents that may sway prices for U.S. government bonds in coming weeks, including...
Jul 23, 2021
Senior U.S. diplomat to lead talks with Russia next week -State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will lead the U.S. delegation in a meeting of the U.S.-Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue in Geneva on July 28, the State Department sai...
Jul 23, 2021
U.S. military carries out second strike in Somalia this week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it carried out an airstrike on Friday against al Shabaab militants in Somalia, in the second such action this week. The Pentagon said the strike took plac...
Jul 23, 2021
Motor racing-Verstappen crash cost Red Bull $1.8 million, says Horner
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Max Verstappen's British Grand Prix collision with Lewis Hamilton cost Red Bull $1.8 million with 'massive ramifications' for a team operating under Formula One's bu...
Jul 23, 2021
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