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Wood forecasts 21% drop in first-half revenue
(Reuters) - Wood Plc on Thursday forecast a 21% drop in first-half revenue as the engineering and consultancy company received smaller contracts due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company...
Jun 24, 2021
Germany to give all willing a first COVID shot by end July, early Aug – minister
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany expects everyone willing to be vaccinated to have received a first dose of a COVID-19 shot by the end of July or early August, Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff said...
Jun 24, 2021
Blackstone raises buyout offer for Britain’s St. Modwen Properties to $1.75 billion
(Reuters) - Private equity firm Blackstone Group has sweetened its buyout offer for St. Modwen Properties to 1.25 billion pounds ($1.75 billion), the companies said on Thursday, adding that the London...
Jun 24, 2021
Britain says: don’t get carried away by warship spat with Russia
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday that people should not get "carried away" by an incident in which Russia said it fired warning shots at a British destroyer in the Black Sea, adding that su...
Jun 24, 2021
Olympics-Japan emperor appears ‘concerned’ about COVID-19 spread through Games -Kyodo
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Emperor Naruhito appears "concerned" about the possibility that the Olympic Games could cause the coronavirus to spread as feared by many in the public, Kyodo News quoted an...
Jun 24, 2021
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily to live on in blockchain, free of censors
By Pak Yiu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong cyber activists are backing up articles by pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on censorship-proof blockchain platforms after the newspaper was forced to shut ...
Jun 24, 2021
Britain wants to allow people to travel again – minister says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain wants to return to a position that allows people to travel abroad again for a foreign holiday but new variants of the novel coronavirus are complicating the easing, Environm...
Jun 24, 2021
UK’s Crest Nicholson swings to profit as govt incentives spur home demand
(Reuters) -British homebuilder Crest Nicholson Holdings Plc swung to a half-year profit and reinstated its dividend on Thursday, benefiting from higher demand as buyers took advantage of government in...
Jun 24, 2021
Exclusive-Pacific island turns to Australia for undersea cable after spurning China
By Jonathan Barrett SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Pacific island of Nauru is negotiating for the construction of an undersea communications cable that would connect to an Australian network, two sources with...
Jun 24, 2021
Afterpay’s move to open to major U.S. merchants will boost margins, analysts say
(Reuters) - Afterpay's move to expand its buy now, pay later service to major U.S. merchants it has not directly partnered with will boost sales and margins, analysts said on Thursday, as the Australi...
Jun 24, 2021
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