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Packaging producer Smurfit passes on higher input costs to boost earnings
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Smurfit Kappa offset significant input cost pressures by increasing its prices in the first half of the year and will continue to do so, Europe's largest paper packaging producer sa...
Jul 28, 2021
Olympics-Sailing-Winds picking up as sailing gets serious
By Philip O'Connor ENOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Like the winds at the Enoshima Yacht Harbour, the sailing competitions at the Tokyo Games were a little slow to get going, but with the first medal races...
Jul 28, 2021
Olympics-Weightlifting-Happy to see you, lifters tell anti-doping testers
By Martin Quin Pollard TOKYO (Reuters) - For years Olympic weightlifters were not happy to see drugs testers arriving for sample collections, and were quick to complain about their arrival times, the ...
Jul 28, 2021
Gymnastics-‘The Fighting Four’ step up to win for Biles
By Elaine Lies and Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber TOKYO (Reuters) - When Simone Biles decided she was dropping out of the team gymnastics competition and told her teammates, for a few seconds they were in s...
Jul 28, 2021
Ex Rio Tinto chief Walsh joins Aboriginal group’s board
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Sam Walsh, a former chief executive of Rio Tinto Ltd, has joined the board of an Aboriginal group on whose traditional lands in Western Australia Rio Tinto and BHP Group have ope...
Jul 28, 2021
UK house prices fall in July as tax cut is scaled back – Nationwide
LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices fell in July after a coronavirus emergency tax break for buyers was scaled back at the end of June but demand for bigger homes as a result of the pandemic is li...
Jul 28, 2021
Wizz Air sees summer capacity close to pre-pandemic levels
LONDON (Reuters) - Hungarian airline Wizz Air said it expected capacity to ramp up to between 90% and 100% of pre-pandemic levels in July and August as summer demand for European travel grows, and any...
Jul 28, 2021
Russia ready to help Tajikistan amid Afghan conflict -TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is ready to provide its ally Tajikistan with any assistance needed amid a worsening conflict in neighbouring Afghanistan, the TASS news agency cited Defence Minister Sergei S...
Jul 28, 2021
Tokyo COVID cases exceed 3,000 for first time -Kyodo
(Corrects paragraph 1 day of the week) TOKYO (Reuters) - The number of Japan's new COVID-19 cases exceeded 3,000 for the first time, Kyodo News said on Wednesday, citing government sources. Japan has ...
Jul 28, 2021
AstraZeneca second dose doesn’t raise risk of rare blood clots – study
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot did not increase the instances of rare blood clots with low platelets in people after the second dose, a study showed on Wednesday, potentially easing some worr...
Jul 28, 2021
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