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Olympics-Mills and Campbell named Australia’s flag bearers for Tokyo Games
(Reuters) - Basketball player Patty Mills will become the first Indigenous Australian to carry the country's flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympics after he was selected for the honour alongside...
Jul 07, 2021
Nasdaq futures scale new peak, all eyes on Fed minutes
By Devik Jain and Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) - The Nasdaq futures hit a record high on Wednesday as a fall in Treasury yields supported tech-heavy growth stocks, while investors focused on the Federal...
Jul 07, 2021
IMF chief sees risk of sustained rise in U.S. inflation
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday said further fiscal support in the United States could fuel inflationary pressures and warned that the risk of a su...
Jul 07, 2021
Airline body to open Saudi office but denies it will be regional HQ
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday that global airlines had agreed to open a regional headquarters in Riyadh but the industry's main trade association denied it would be a regional base ...
Jul 07, 2021
UnityPoint plans new $24 million mental health facility
PEORIA, Ill. — UnityPoint Health UnityPlace has plans in the works for a new $24 million behavioral health clinic for children and adolescents. “Especially post-pandemic is an increase in ...
Jul 07, 2021
Swiss widen sanctions list against Belarus
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland has widened its sanctions against Belarus, the government said on Wednesday, joining other countries in acting after Belarusian authorities triggered outrage by intercep...
Jul 07, 2021
Israeli startup AnyVision raises $235 million from SoftBank, others
(Reuters) - AnyVision, an artificial intelligence-based facial recognition startup, said on Wednesday it had raised $235 million in a funding round from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Eldridge, among othe...
Jul 07, 2021
Ex-US Marine Whelan to request transfer from Russia to U.S. to serve sentence -RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The defence team of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, sentenced last year to 16 years in a Russian jail, will ask a Moscow court to move him to the United States to serve his sentence...
Jul 07, 2021
Google-backed Planet Labs to go public in $2.8 billion SPAC deal
(Reuters) - Earth data and analytics company Planet Labs Inc, which is backed by Alphabet Inc's Google, will go public through a merger with a blank-check company in a deal valued at $2.8 billion, the...
Jul 07, 2021
Spain’s Glovo considers appeal after Italian regulator finds Foodinho labour breaches
ROME (Reuters) - Spanish delivery start-up Glovo said on Wednesday it is examining its options, including a possible appeal, after Italy's data protection authority ordered Glovo's delivery firm Foodi...
Jul 07, 2021
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