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Clear Secure aims $2.2 billion valuation in U.S. IPO
(Reuters) - Clear Secure Inc, a New York-based firm that uses biometric technology to validate identity, is looking to raise as much as $396 million through a U.S. initial public offering, targeting a...
Jun 23, 2021
Police death toll from militant attack in Burkina Faso rises to 15
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Four police officers who had gone missing after a militant attack in Burkina Faso on Monday have been found dead, raising the police death toll to 15, police sources said on We...
Jun 23, 2021
Fourteen hours to collect a corpse in Jakarta as COVID toll mounts
By Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Kate Lamb and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - It took almost 14 hours to collect a COVID-19 corpse in Jakarta this week, police said, as the Indonesian capital scramble...
Jun 23, 2021
Police searching for missing Peoria woman
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a woman who’s been missing for over a month. PPD said someone filed a missing person’s report on Tuesda...
Jun 23, 2021
GSK pledges sales boost after split from consumer arm
(Reuters) -New GSK, the pharmaceuticals business being separated from its consumer health operations, pledged to increase sales by more than 5% a year to 2026, the group said on Wednesday, as it publi...
Jun 23, 2021
Britain’s Lloyds axes further 44 branches
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Lloyds Banking Group is closing 44 bank branches across England and Wales this year, as lenders across the industry ramp up cost-cutting. Banks have stepped up branch closu...
Jun 23, 2021
Afterpay to let U.S. users ‘buy now, pay later’ at major U.S. merchants
(Reuters) - Afterpay said on Wednesday it will allow some of its U.S. users to shop at merchants the Australian 'buy now, pay later' (BNPL) firm does not partner with, such as Amazon, further squeezin...
Jun 23, 2021
U.S. Democrats vow ‘long march’ toward voting rights reforms
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress suffered a bruising defeat in their drive to pass a major election reform bill but said there are more tools at their disposal to...
Jun 23, 2021
Manufacturers have an answer to higher costs: Pass them on
By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) - In 2018, Whirlpool Corp swung to a loss after a tariff-fueled rally in U.S. steel prices drove up its raw-materials costs. This year, it is paying $1 billion ...
Jun 23, 2021
Italy’s top court says production at Ilva plant can continue
ROME (Reuters) -Italy's top administrative court on Wednesday ruled that production at the Ilva steel plant in the southern city of Taranto can continue. The Council of State court said in a statement...
Jun 23, 2021
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