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Ice Hockey-Former NHL star Fedorov named head coach of CSKA Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) - CSKA Moscow, a team in the Russian-based Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), named former NHL star Sergei Fedorov as its head coach on Wednesday. Fedorov, 51, played for nearly two dec...
Jul 14, 2021
Iran says U.S. claim of kidnapping plot is ‘baseless, ridiculous’
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran rejected as "ridiculous and baseless" the United States' claim of Tehran's involvement in plotting to kidnap a New York journalist and human rights activist who was critical of ...
Jul 14, 2021
Factbox – Global climate schemes put a price on carbon emissions
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - The European Commission announced plans on Wednesday for the world's first carbon border tariff, which would impose emission costs on imports of goods including s...
Jul 14, 2021
Olympics-IOC’s DeFrantz hails sprinter Richardson for coming clean on cannabis use
(Reuters) - International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Anita DeFrantz says she admires Sha'Carri Richardson for coming clean on her cannabis use which resulted in the American sprinter accep...
Jul 14, 2021
EU unveils plan to increase renewables share in energy mix to 40% by 2030
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union must increase the amount of renewable energy it uses and cut energy consumption by 2030 under proposals the bloc's executive Commission published...
Jul 14, 2021
EU proposes quotas for states to boost natural carbon sinks
LONDON (Reuters) -The European Commission on Wednesday proposed setting targets for European Union member states to use carbon reservoirs such as forests and grasslands to absorb a cumulative 310 mill...
Jul 14, 2021
Fed’s Powell to tamp down taper talk on Hill, stick with transitory inflation
(Reuters) - The U.S. job market "is still a ways off" from the progress the Federal Reserve wants to see before reducing its support for the economy, while current high inflation will ease "in coming ...
Jul 14, 2021
Italy players insisted on open bus tour after Euro 2020 triumph despite COVID risk -Rome prefect
ROME (Reuters) - Italian team players overrode police objections in taking an open bus tour through the streets of Rome after their Euros 2020 victory, even though this had been forbidden for fear of ...
Jul 14, 2021
Spanish court says COVID-19 state of emergency was unconstitutional
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that a national state of emergency, which included a strict home confinement to curb the first wave of COVID-19 infections last year,...
Jul 14, 2021
Reactions to EU’s “Fit for 55” climate plan
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday its most ambitious plan to tackle climate change and set out how the European Union's 27 countries can meet a collective goal to redu...
Jul 14, 2021
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