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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...
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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...
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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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EasyJet founder’s family sells small stake in airline
LONDON (Reuters) - The family of the founder of British airline easyJet sold a small stake in the company, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday, reducing the Haji-Ioannou family's holding to 25.3% f...
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Deutsche Bank CEO Sewing says lender focused on overhaul
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank's chief executive officer, Christian Sewing, on Thursday told shareholders asking about the prospect of mergers that the lender was focused on its multi-year overha...
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Exclusive: KPMG managers back liquidation of Singapore firms in $1 billion nickel scandal
By Chen Lin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore firms accused of being involved in a $1.1-billion bogus nickel trading scheme should be placed in liquidation as there was no business to be preserved, inte...
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