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China bars for-profit tutoring in core school subjects -document
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is barring tutoring for profit in core school subjects to ease financial pressures on families that have contributed to low birth rates, news that sent shockwaves through it...
Jul 23, 2021
Water infrastructure firm Core & Main valued at $7 billion as shares rise in debut
(Reuters) -Shares of Core & Main Inc, a water infrastructure company owned by private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), rose over 8% in their stock market debut, giving the company a market...
Jul 23, 2021
Electric air taxi startup Joby to add LinkedIn co-founder, Google exec to board
(Reuters) - Electric air taxi startup Joby Aero Inc will add Silicon Valley heavyweight Reid Hoffman and executives from Google and Toyota to its board, as the company prepares to go public through a ...
Jul 23, 2021
U.S. weighs crackdown on China’s import of Iranian oil
By Arshad Mohammed and Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - The United States is considering cracking down on Iranian oil sales to China as it braces for the possibility that Tehran may not return to nucle...
Jul 23, 2021
Spaniards queue up for shots, hoping to leave COVID behind them
By Elena Rodriguez and Joan Faus MADRID (Reuters) - Spaniards who took one of the biggest hits from COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic are now among some of the keenest when it comes to getting vac...
Jul 23, 2021
Dispute over Italian coronavirus study shows challenges of probing origins
By Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) - A dispute over blood tests has raised questions about an Italian study that suggested the coronavirus was circulating outside China much earlier than expected, highl...
Jul 23, 2021
What you need to know right now
(Reuters) - Tennis star Naomi Osaka climbed a stage in the shape of Mt. Fuji and lit the Olympic cauldron, capping off an opening ceremony like no other. Here's what you need to know about the Tokyo G...
Jul 23, 2021
Russia declares media outlet The Insider a ‘foreign agent’
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia declared investigative media outlet The Insider and five individual journalists "foreign agents" on Friday, part of what Kremlin opponents say is a crackdown on independent m...
Jul 23, 2021
Digital ad platform Outbrain valued at more than $1 billion in Nasdaq debut
(Reuters) - Shares of Outbrain Inc opened flat in their Nasdaq debut on Friday, giving the web recommendation platform a market capitalization of nearly $1.1 billion. The company's shares opened at th...
Jul 23, 2021
Disney Cruise Line to resume sailing from U.S. ports next month
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's cruise division said on Friday it would start operations from U.S. ports again next month, following a months-long pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Disney Dream will de...
Jul 23, 2021
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