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BlackRock to buy Baringa Partners’ climate tech for Aladdin
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - BlackRock said on Thursday it had agreed a deal with Baringa Partners to buy the consultancy's climate-modelling technology for use in its Aladdin risk management sy...
Jun 17, 2021
Kremlin says it is worried by talk of Ukraine road map for NATO
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that Moscow was worried by talk of a road map for Ukraine to join NATO and described the "problem" of the military bloc as one of Russia's "red lines". ...
Jun 17, 2021
Cycling-Dubai Police’s Khaled provisionally suspended for doping violation
(Reuters) - Dubai Police Cycling Team's Samah Khaled has been provisionally suspended for an anti-doping rule violation, cycling's governing body (UCI) said. A sample taken from Khaled on April 22 tes...
Jun 17, 2021
Whitbread looks ahead to post-lockdown bounce in UK leisure demand
By Vishwadha Chander (Reuters) -Premier Inn-owner Whitbread said hotel bookings in its tourist locations picked up in the run-up to the summer season, lifting its shares even as Britain delayed plans ...
Jun 17, 2021
Olympics-Lavey primed for Tokyo basketball after Aussie Rules adventure
By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Professional Australian Rules football might seem an unlikely setting for a basketballer to warm up for the Olympics but it gave Tessa Lavey a physical boost and vi...
Jun 17, 2021
Swedish government moves to head off crisis as Left mulls no-confidence vote
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden's centre-left government moved to diffuse a crisis over easing rent controls on Thursday after the Left Party threatened to withdraw its support, triggering a possible vote...
Jun 17, 2021
Swiss National Bank keeps expansive policy in place despite inflationary pressures
BERN (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank is keeping its ultra-loose monetary policy in place, the central bank said on Thursday, while raising its inflation forecasts as the global economy recovers fr...
Jun 17, 2021
Lebanon’s banks stuck in reverse: jobs go, lending dives
By Davide Barbuscia BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's banks, which once powered the economy by sucking in billions of dollars of deposits from abroad, are shedding staff, watching loan books shrink and cha...
Jun 17, 2021
Aboriginal groups reject bill to protect cultural heritage in Western Australia mining state
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Indigenous Australians say a bill to protect cultural heritage in the mining state of Western Australia is flawed and should not be presented to parliament, as the state reviews ...
Jun 17, 2021
Explainer-Lebanon’s financial meltdown and how it happened
By Edmund Blair (Reuters) - Lebanon is grappling with a deep economic crisis after successive governments piled up debt following the 1975-1990 civil war with little to show for their spending binge. ...
Jun 17, 2021
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