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Brazil interest rates to hit 7.00% this year -cenbank survey
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Expectations for 2021 Brazilian inflation and interest rates rose to new highs, a survey of economists showed on Monday, with the central bank's benchmark Selic rate expected to h...
Jul 26, 2021
Southern India’s only chief minister from PM Modi’s party resigns
By Chandini Monnappa BENGALURU (Reuters) - The chief minister of India's Karnataka, the only state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party in the country's prosperous south, resigned on Monday i...
Jul 26, 2021
Israeli government wants more Ultra-Orthodox men to work, but faces pushback
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's new government is looking to take advantage of a rare political opportunity to push more ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the workforce to boost the econo...
Jul 26, 2021
Aon, Willis Towers Watson to call off $30 billion merger
(Reuters) - Insurance brokers Aon PLC and Willis Towers Watson PLC said on Monday they had agreed to terminate their $30 billion merger agreement and end their litigation with the U.S. Department of J...
Jul 26, 2021
Olympics-Fencing-ROC’s Pozdniakova wins gold in women’s individual sabre
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sofia Pozdniakova of the Russian Olympic Committee won gold in the individual women's sabre fencing competition on Monday. Sofya Velikaya, also of the ROC, took silver, and Manon Bru...
Jul 26, 2021
Foreign ministers of more than a dozen countries condemn mass arrests in Cuba
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of the United States and 20 other countries on Monday condemned mass arrests in Cuba and called for full restoration of Internet access in the island natio...
Jul 26, 2021
EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet unit Google has two months to improve the way it presents internet search results for flights and hotels and explain how it ranks these or face possible s...
Jul 26, 2021
Exclusive-U.S. will not lift travel restrictions, citing Delta variant -official
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not lift any existing travel restrictions "at this point" due to concerns over the highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant and the...
Jul 26, 2021
Exclusive-Facebook and tech giants to target manifestos, militias in database
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist ...
Jul 26, 2021
Hoaxers call time on Credit Suisse’s fossil fuel financing
By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - Climate change activists staged a hoax outside Credit Suisse's headquarters on Monday, posing as representatives of the Swiss bank and announcing an end to...
Jul 26, 2021
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