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EU watchdog rejects call to ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp user data
DUBLIN (Reuters) - A European Union privacy watchdog rejected a call by Germany's lead data protection regulator for an EU-wide ban on Facebook's (FB.O) processing of personal data from its WhatsApp s...
Jul 15, 2021
Cycling-Tour’s Bahrain Victorious team hotel and bus searched by police – police source
PAU, France (Reuters) - Police searched the accommodation and team bus of the Bahrain Victorious team on the Tour de France on Wednesday after the 17th stage, a police source told Reuters. The search ...
Jul 15, 2021
IOC’s Bach says ‘zero’ risk of COVID spreading from participants
TOKYO (Reuters) - International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Thursday there was "zero" risk of Tokyo Olympics participants infecting Japanese residents with coronavirus, because cas...
Jul 15, 2021
Olympics-Chad pins Olympic medal hope on judoka Memneloum
By Mahamat Ramadane N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Demos Memneloum's dream was just to qualify for the Olympics in the sport she loves and she achieved that this year when the 26-year old became Chad's first e...
Jul 15, 2021
Pfizer says only in talks with government bodies in Thailand
(Reuters) - Pfizer on Thursday said it was only in talks with the Thai government, after a Thai hospital group said it was signing a deal for 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. "We are in ongoing ...
Jul 15, 2021
Explainer: What’s at stake in WTO talks on fishing rules?
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Negotiators at the World Trade Organization have been trying for 20 years to agree how to cap subsidies that contribute to the overfishing of the world's seas and ocea...
Jul 15, 2021
TSMC chairman says nobody wants war over Taiwan as chip supplies too valuable
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Nobody wants to see a war over Taiwan because nobody wants to disrupt the crucial global supply chain of semiconductors, the chairman of major chipmaker TSMC said on Thursday, in un...
Jul 15, 2021
WTO chief calls for ‘shift of mindset’ to clinch fisheries deal
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of the World Trade Organization told trade ministers on Thursday she was optimistic about concluding multilateral talks on the fishing industry soon but called...
Jul 15, 2021
ECB’s Visco wants easy policy to support recovery, markets
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Central Bank should keep its policy ultra-easy to support the economic recovery in the euro area and insulate its financial markets from higher interest rates in the ...
Jul 15, 2021
Floods cut power to 200,000 households in western Germany
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Floods in western Germany have cut electricity to 200,000 households, a spokeswoman for Westnetz, the country's biggest power distribution grid company, said on Thursday. "We are...
Jul 15, 2021
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