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Foxconn in talks to buy stake in Malaysia’s DNeX -report
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Taiwanese firm Foxconn Technology Co Ltd is in talks to acquire a stake in Malaysian technology firm Dagang NeXchange Bhd (DNeX) after losing a bid for a semiconductor maker D...
May 27, 2021
Overnight shooting leaves one dead in Peoria, victim ID’ed
***UPDATE*** 5/27/21 3:45 P.M. 20-year-old Kandon Bonner has been identified as the victim. An autopsy showed Bonner suffered multiple gunshots to his thorax. _________________________________________...
May 27, 2021
Talks drag on in search for deal on Europe’s farming subsidies
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Talks on the future of the European Union's huge farming subsidies ran into extra time on Thursday, as negotiators argued over how far they are willing to change th...
May 27, 2021
Hong Kong bans Tiananmen vigil for second year running, citing coronavirus
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police cited coronavirus restrictions to ban for a second year running an annual vigil to commemorate the Chinese Communist government's bloody crackdown on student-led...
May 27, 2021
France’s Macron asks Rwanda for forgiveness over genocide
KIGALI (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said only Rwandans could forgive France for its role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. "On this path, only those who went through that night ca...
May 27, 2021
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce quarterly profit beats expectations
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce beat analysts' estimates for quarterly profit on Thursday, driven by much lower-than-expected provisions. Net income excluding one-off items rose...
May 27, 2021
‘Patriots rule Hong Kong’ as sweeping pro-Beijing electoral rules passed
By Sharon Abratique HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's legislature approved the biggest overhaul of its political system in the quarter century since British rule on Thursday, in a decisive step to ass...
May 27, 2021
Taiwan says request to drop word ‘country’ preceded BioNTech vaccine deal collapse
By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) - Germany's BioNTech asked Taiwan to remove the word "country" from an announcement they planned to make on a COVID-19 vaccine sale to the island, its health minister sai...
May 27, 2021
Ravaged by COVID-19, Porto hopes for Champions League final tourism boost
By Catarina Demony and Silvio Castellanos PORTO, Portugal (Reuters) - As thousands of English football fans flock to Portugal's city of Porto for Saturday's Champions League final, hotels and bars are...
May 27, 2021
Anti-Kremlin group Open Russia says it will end activities in Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The board of Open Russia, an organisation linked to exiled former oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has decided to end its operations in Russia, it said on Thursda...
May 27, 2021
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