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Poorer U.S. households gained nearly a year’s spending from CARES Act – study
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - Federal aid distributed as part of the CARES Act boosted U.S. households' ability to pay their bills after becoming unemployed, with lower-income households seeing the bi...
Jul 06, 2021
Iran informs IAEA of plans to produce enriched uranium
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has informed the U.N. nuclear watchdog of plans to produce uranium metal enriched to up to 20% purity for reactor fuel, the agency said on Tuesday, in a move that is likely to ...
Jul 06, 2021
Estonian diplomat’s detention in Russia “a set-up”, Estonia says
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Estonia said the reported detention of one of its diplomats by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Tuesday was "a set-up" and the accusations against him we...
Jul 06, 2021
G20 to back global corporate tax deal, says French finance minister
PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday his G20 counterparts are poised to give political endorsement of a proposed overhaul of how multinational companies are taxed d...
Jul 06, 2021
Blinken calls for negotiated, indefinite ceasefire in call with Ethiopia’s Abiy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a call with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday stressed the need for all parties to commit to an immediate, indefinite, neg...
Jul 06, 2021
Finland to allow in travellers subject to restrictions and tests
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland will allow travellers from abroad who are fully vaccinated, can show they have had COVID-19 within the last six months, or come from a country with a low infection rate to...
Jul 06, 2021
Canada’s first Indigenous governor general pledges to help heal nation
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - The first Indigenous Canadian to hold the post of governor general addressed the public in her first language, Inuktitut, on Tuesday, and promised to work towards h...
Jul 06, 2021
Chanel splashes plenty of colour at haute couture live show
By Laetitia Volga PARIS (Reuters) - Colourful flowers, sequins and feathers adorned Chanel's Impressionist-inspired haute couture show in Paris on Tuesday, held in front of a live audience as COVID-19...
Jul 06, 2021
Pentagon to rebid JEDI cloud contract at center of Microsoft-Amazon dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department canceled its $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing project on Tuesday and will seeks bids on a new contract, saying in a statement that tech giants Micros...
Jul 06, 2021
Soccer-UEFA invites Eriksen and medics who saved him to Euros final
By Tim Barsoe COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -European football governing body UEFA has invited Denmark international Christian Eriksen and the paramedics who helped save his life during an on-field cardiac arr...
Jul 06, 2021
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