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From dried fruit to bike repair, Cuban entrepreneurs prepare for a more open economy
By Marc Frank and Anett Rios HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban entrepreneurs, running businesses ranging from selling dried fruit to repairing bikes and developing software, are scrambling to understand the op...
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Exhausted Kabul hospital staff fear more attacks may come
(Reuters) - Medical staff at Kabul's Emergency Hospital worked through the night into Friday treating casualties from the twin blasts that tore through crowds waiting outside the airport. They are fea...
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Toyota halts all self-driving e-Palette vehicles after Olympic village accident
(Reuters) - Toyota Motor said on Friday it had suspended operations of its self-driving e-Palette transportation pods at the Paralympic Games village in Tokyo, a day after one of the vehicles collided...
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Italy expects last evacuation flight out of Afghanistan on Friday
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government expects its last evacuation flight to leave Afghanistan later on Friday, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told reporters. "In the next few hours the last C-130 pl...
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The average lifespan of one of these is about 23 years. What is it?
August 27, 2021 Q: The average lifespan of one of these is about 23 years. What is it? A: The $100 bill
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U.N. says Afghanistan humanitarian needs are ‘catastrophic’
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. officials appealed for $800 million to fill a chronic funding gap for Afghanistan on Friday, with a senior aid official describing the situation as "catastrophic" with at least...
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England’s COVID reproduction number remains above 1
LONDON (Reuters) - England's COVID-19 weekly reproduction "R" number remained above 1, according to official data released on Friday that showed the virus was continuing to spread. The range narrowed ...
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U.S. consumer spending slows in July; monthly inflation moderates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending slowed in July as shortages of motor vehicles tempered a rise in outlays on in-person services, supporting views that economic growth will moderate in the...
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U.S. bond funds receive higher inflows in week to Aug. 25 – Lipper
(Reuters) - U.S. bond funds witnessed a big increase in inflows in the week to Aug. 25 on caution ahead of a long-awaited speech by the Fed Chair Jerome Powell at the Jackson Hole Symposium, that coul...
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Fed’s Harker says he still supports tapering sooner rather than later
(Reuters) - Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Patrick Harker said on Friday that he still supports tapering the central bank's asset purchases sooner rather than later, calling the significa...
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