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The rise and fall of HK’s Apple Daily and media magnate Jimmy Lai
By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's last remaining major pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, will publish its final edition on Thursday following an unrelenting crackdown by authoriti...
Syndicated Content Jun 23, 2021
Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus
(Reuters) - The pandemic has stoked hunger for trusted news in a time of global crisis and a clear majority of people want media organisations to be impartial and objective, The Reuters Institute for ...
Syndicated Content Jun 23, 2021
Six arrested in France over suspected COVID benefits scam -Europol
PARIS (Reuters) - Six people have been arrested on suspicion of swindling the French state out of 12 million euros ($14.3 million) in COVID-19 unemployment benefits by using 3,600 shell companies to c...
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Blinken says Nordstream 2 is Russian project that undermines Ukraine
BERLIN (Reuters) - Nordstream 2 is a Russian geopolitical project that undermines the security of Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, adding that the United States wants...
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Enel CEO calls for halt to extraction of new fossil fuels
MILAN (Reuters) - The aggressive use of current technologies can stop the growth of greenhouse gasses by 2030 but we need to stop producing more fossil fuels, the chief executive of Europe's biggest u...
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Pardoned Catalan separatist leaders walk out of jail
SANT JOAN DE VILATORRADA, Spain (Reuters) - The nine Catalan separatist leaders who were convicted for their role in a failed 2017 bid for the region's independence from Spain walked out of prison on ...
Syndicated Content Jun 23, 2021
What people are saying about closure of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily is set to print one million copies of its last edition on Thursday, after a year in which it was raided by police and its tycoon own...
Syndicated Content Jun 23, 2021
Clear Secure aims $2.2 billion valuation in U.S. IPO
(Reuters) - Clear Secure Inc, a New York-based firm that uses biometric technology to validate identity, is looking to raise as much as $396 million through a U.S. initial public offering, targeting a...
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Police death toll from militant attack in Burkina Faso rises to 15
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Four police officers who had gone missing after a militant attack in Burkina Faso on Monday have been found dead, raising the police death toll to 15, police sources said on We...
Syndicated Content Jun 23, 2021
Fourteen hours to collect a corpse in Jakarta as COVID toll mounts
By Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Kate Lamb and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - It took almost 14 hours to collect a COVID-19 corpse in Jakarta this week, police said, as the Indonesian capital scramble...
Syndicated Content Jun 23, 2021
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