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Disney Chairman Iger sells shares worth nearly $100 million
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co Chairman Bob Iger sold shares of the company worth $98.7 million, according to a regulatory filing late on Thursday. Iger sold 550,570 shares of Disney's common stock, the f...
Jun 04, 2021
MH17 plane crash families prepare for critical trial phase
By Stephanie van den Berg AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Families of people who died in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 said they were preparing to hear painful details when a critical stage ...
Jun 04, 2021
U.S. sends 1 million J&J COVID-19 vaccine doses to S.Korea -State Dept
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is shipping one million doses of Johnson & Johnson's one-shot COVID-19 vaccine to South Korea, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Friday, one day after ...
Jun 04, 2021
Analysis-India’s vaccine inequity worsens as countryside languishes
By Krishna N. Das, Abhirup Roy and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI/SATARA, India (Reuters) - Urban Indians are getting COVID-19 shots much faster than the hundreds of millions of people living in the countr...
Jun 04, 2021
G7 emphasises support for vaccine sharing when domestic situations permit
LONDON (Reuters) - Health ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Friday emphasised their support for the sharing of COVID-19 vaccines when domestic circumstances allow. "We emphasise our su...
Jun 04, 2021
Putin accuses U.S. of using dollar as tool of economic, political war
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Friday of using the dollar as a tool of economic and political war and said Russia may consider settling transac...
Jun 04, 2021
Britain says G7 countries in health agreement for clinical trials boost
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said that the G7 group of advanced economies agreed on Friday to speed up and share results from clinical trials on, for instance, vaccines to better tackle the COVID-19 pan...
Jun 04, 2021
GE CEO says DOJ has concluded review of jet-leasing unit deal
CHICAGO (Reuters) - General Electric Co Chief Executive Larry Culp on Friday said the U.S. Department of Justice has concluded the review of a $30 billion deal to merge the company's jet-leasing unit ...
Jun 04, 2021
Tennis-ATP cancels Swiss Indoors Basel tournament for second straight year
(Reuters) - The Swiss Indoors Basel, a tournament Roger Federer has won 10 times, has been cancelled for a second year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organisers said on Friday. The ATP 500 tournament w...
Jun 04, 2021
Russia scrambles fighter jet to accompany U.S. military plane
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia scrambled a MiG-31 fighter jet to accompany a U.S. military plane over the Barents sea on Friday, RIA news agency reported citing a Russian navy statement. Russian military s...
Jun 04, 2021
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