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Olympics-Baseball-One-time MLB vets lift Dominican Republic over Mexico 1-0
By Paresh Dave YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Well-known former Major League Baseball players gave the Dominican Republic a 1-0 victory over Mexico on Friday, evening out the Caribbean country's record a...
Jul 30, 2021
Sales at Birkin bag maker Hermes soar amid luxury rebound
PARIS (Reuters) -Sales at Birkin handbag maker Hermes powered ahead in the second quarter, more than doubling from a year earlier as lockdowns eased around the world and shoppers, particularly in Asia...
Jul 30, 2021
French billionaire Niel offers to buy out and de-list Iliad telecom
PARIS (Reuters) -Billionaire businessman Xavier Niel, the controlling shareholder of French telecoms and media group Iliad, said on Friday that he was making a full takeover offer for the company, wit...
Jul 30, 2021
VW’s Skoda Auto raises deliveries to 515,300 cars in H1
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Volkswagen's Skoda Auto raised its global deliveries to 515,300 cars in the first half of the year from 426,700 cars in the same period last year, the carmaker said on Friday. Skoda...
Jul 30, 2021
Credit Suisse creates new asset management risk role
By Oliver Hirt and Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse, recently hit by the Archegos and Greensill scandals, has created a new role of chief risk officer for asset management that ...
Jul 30, 2021
Olympics-Cycling-BMX Queen Pajon cedes gold, looks to track cycling for Paris
By Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) - Colombian Mariana Pajon's long reign as queen of women's BMX racing came to an end on Friday when she ceded her place to Britain's Bethany Shriever, but the Medellin na...
Jul 30, 2021
Olympics-Rowing-New Zealand soars in drama-drenched Tokyo Regatta
By Amy Tennery TOKYO (Reuters) - New Zealand came out on top in an Olympic rowing regatta for the record books at Tokyo's Sea Forest Waterway, as the United States suffered a historic medal shutout an...
Jul 30, 2021
Olympics-Shooting-Russian Batsarashkina wins women’s 25m pistol gold
TOKYO (Reuters) - Russian Vitalina Batsarashkina won the gold medal in the women's 25-metre pistol event at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday. Kim Min-jung of South Korea won the silver, while China's Xiao...
Jul 30, 2021
Olympics-Athletics-World discus champ Stahl bags finals spot with just one throw
By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Sweden's world champion Daniel Stahl needed just one attempt to qualify for the men's discus final and Qatar's Mutaz Barshim kicked off his bid to add a high-jump ...
Jul 30, 2021
Olympics-Boxing-‘Small but mighty’: Irish flagbearer celebrates rowing gold
By Chang-Ran Kim TOKYO (Reuters) - Boxing world champion Kellie Ann Harrington said Ireland was punching above its weight at the Tokyo Games and hailed the performance of the country's rowers after th...
Jul 30, 2021
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