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UK growth slows sharply in July as COVID ‘pingdemic’ hits
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's rapid economic bounce-back from the coronavirus pandemic slowed sharply in July as a new wave of cases forced hundreds of thousands of workers to self-is...
Jul 23, 2021
Tesla lobbies India for sharply lower import taxes on electric vehicles – sources
By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Tesla Inc has written to Indian ministries seeking a big reduction in import duties on electric vehicles (EVs), a move it says will boost demand and generate revenu...
Jul 23, 2021
Cycling-Pogacar will be a marked man in road race, says Wiggins
By Martyn Herman TOKYO (Reuters) - Favourite Tadej Pogacar will be a "marked man" as he attempts to claim gold in the Olympic road race on Saturday, according to former Tour de France and Olympic cham...
Jul 23, 2021
Protein pinch: China’s soybean imports to slow over rest of 2021 on curbed meal use
By Hallie Gu and Gavin Maguire BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's soybean imports are set to slow sharply in late 2021 from a record first-half tally, confounding expectations for sustained growth ...
Jul 23, 2021
Iran’s Khamenei says water crisis protesters cannot be blamed
DUBAI (Reuters) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Iranians protesting over water shortages in the southwest cannot be blamed, and called on officials to deal with the water p...
Jul 23, 2021
Column: Dominance of mega firms may undermine monetary policy
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - If central banks' policies of zero interest rates and trillions of dollars of bond buying struggled to lift growth and inflation for over a decade, tighter monetary po...
Jul 23, 2021
FOCUS ON-Water polo at the Tokyo Olympics
(Reuters) - Focus on water polo at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * 12 men's and 10 women's teams are split into two groups with qualifying teams moving into knockout rounds. * Games tak...
Jul 23, 2021
Russia reports 23,811 new COVID-19 cases, 795 deaths
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported 23,811 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 3,425 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 6,078,522. The government coronavirus ...
Jul 23, 2021
Kazakhstan to directly elect hundreds of village mayors for first time
ALMATY (Reuters) - Voters in one-third of Kazakhstan's rural districts will directly elect their mayors for the first time on Sunday, one of the first steps in the oil-rich Central Asian nation's caut...
Jul 23, 2021
Russia to help Tajikistan build outpost on Afghan border -report
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will help its ally Tajikistan build a new outpost on the Tajik-Afghan border, a senior Russian diplomat said, amid worsening conflict in Afghanistan as U.S.-led troops withdr...
Jul 23, 2021
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