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Japan keeps budget goal intact for now but aims to reassess it later
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government pledged on Friday to keep its goal of achieving a primary budget surplus by fiscal 2025, with a caveat that the target will be reassessed this...
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Lufthansa aims to repay state aid before German election – CEO
BERLIN (Reuters) - Lufthansa wants to repay state aid it received during the pandemic before Germany's federal election in September if possible, the airline's chief executive said on Friday. "We were...
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Adevinta, eBay clear final hurdle in $13 billion advertising tie-up
OSLO (Reuters) -U.S. e-commerce group eBay and Norway's Adevinta have secured final regulatory approval for a tie-up of their global classified ads businesses, the Norwegian firm said on Friday. Under...
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India’s Paytm seeks shareholder approval for $1.6 billion sale of new stock
By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian digital payments firm Paytm is seeking shareholder approval to sell up to 120 billion rupees ($1.62 billion) in new stock in what could be the South A...
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South African fishermen, oyster farmers fear power-generating ship will kill business
By Wendell Roelf SALDANHA BAY, South Africa (Reuters) - A floating gas-turbine generator meant to alleviate South Africa's crippling power cuts has run into objections by oyster farmers and small-scal...
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COVID-19 cases hit an all-time daily high in Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Daily cases of COVID-19 hit an all-time high in Moscow on Friday, official data showed, as the number of new cases in the Russian capital tripled in two weeks to reach 9,056 amid ta...
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Exclusive-Google searches for new measure of skin tones to curb bias in products
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google told Reuters this week it is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones, which a growing chorus of technology...
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Montenegro’s parliament sacks minister over Srebrenica genocide denial
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Montenegro's parliament adopted a resolution on the 1995 Srebrenica genocide late on Thursday and dismissed the pro-Serb justice minister over his denial of the massacre, a move t...
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Israel to give Palestinians 1 million COVID vaccine doses – Israeli statement
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel will give around 1 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to the Palestinian Authority (PA), Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office said on Friday. In a ...
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HK court finds five guilty over 2019 attack on protesters at station
By Sara Cheng Sharon Abratique HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Friday found five men guilty of a 2019 attack on pro-democracy protesters, reporters and bystanders at a train station at the ...
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