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No health pass, no cinema or museum: France tightens COVID-19 rules
By Emilie Delwarde PARIS (Reuters) - Where's your health pass? Visitors heading to museums, cinemas or swimming pools in France will be denied entry from Wednesday if they cannot show the document tha...
Jul 21, 2021
Some Hong Kong banks decline mortgages for Evergrande’s off-plan projects
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Some banks in Hong Kong, including HSBC and Standard Chartered, are declining loans to buyers of Chinese property developer Evergrande Group's two uncompleted residential project...
Jul 21, 2021
Olympics-Tennis-Adjusting to Games atmosphere main challenge, says Swiatek’s psychologist
By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Adjusting to COVID-19 protocols in Tokyo may be easy for globe-trotting tennis players, but adjusting to the social environment at the Olympics will be a real chal...
Jul 21, 2021
No. 2 U.S. diplomat Sherman to visit China July 25-26 -State Dept
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will visit China next week as part of a larger Asia trip, the State Department said on Wednesday, marking the highest-level visit by...
Jul 21, 2021
Netflix’s gaming foray will cost time and money -Wall St
By Nivedita Balu and Akanksha Rana (Reuters) - Wall Street analysts welcomed Netflix's planned plunge into mobile gaming on Wednesday, calling it a sensible move to keep users' eyes on screens while w...
Jul 21, 2021
Basketball-‘Incredible Giannis!’ Greeks celebrate Bucks’ NBA victory
ATHENS (Reuters) - The Milwaukee Bucks won their first NBA championship in 50 years on Tuesday and a nation is cheering their success. In Greece, home of forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, who scored 50 p...
Jul 21, 2021
Pfizer/BioNTech strike South Africa COVID-19 manufacturing deal with Biovac
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE on Wednesday said they had struck a deal for South Africa's Biovac Institute to process and distribute over 100 million doses a year of their COVID-19 vaccine fo...
Jul 21, 2021
Israel’s National Security Council ‘looking into’ NSO spyware allegations
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to "look into" proliferating allegations that spyware sold by a Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global sc...
Jul 21, 2021
Canada’s Rogers Communications beats quarterly revenue estimates
(Reuters) -Canada's Rogers Communications Inc on Wednesday reported second-quarter revenue that beat analysts' estimates, helped by a pick up in advertisement sales and as its cable business benefited...
Jul 21, 2021
Senior U.S. diplomat Sherman to visit China – State Department
By Simon Lewis and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will visit China on July 25-26, the State Department said on Wednesday, as the world's two large...
Jul 21, 2021
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