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Australia’s corporate watchdog defends actions over Nuix IPO
By Paulina Duran SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's corporate regulator on Friday defended its actions in allowing the initial public offering of Macquarie Group-backed software provider Nuix last year, d...
Syndicated Content Jun 18, 2021
Portland police’s entire crowd control unit resigns after indictment of officer
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - All members of the crowd control team of Portland police have resigned from their positions in the unit after an officer was indicted on an assault charge stemming from a...
Syndicated Content Jun 18, 2021
Amid pandemic, number of people forced to flee homes has risen, says U.N.
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of people forced to flee their homes due to conflict, persecution and human rights abuses has doubled in the past decade to reach 82.4 million at th...
Syndicated Content Jun 18, 2021
Scale of cash economy in South African townships stuns FirstRand
By Emma Rumney JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - FirstRand has found offering banking to cash-only businesses in South African townships trickier than expected, but the firms involved are also far bigger than ...
Syndicated Content Jun 18, 2021
Japan to tighten rules on coal power exports to meet G7 vow
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will tighten its rules on support for exports of new coal power plants, in line with a pact by the Group of Seven nations (G7) to halt new government backing for "unabated coal...
Syndicated Content Jun 17, 2021
Olympics-Titmus eyeing a golden Olympics for swimmers
By Richard Evans ADELAIDE (Reuters) - It has been some turnaround. For a young woman who came into this week's Australian Olympic swimming trials plagued by questions about a lingering shoulder injury...
Syndicated Content Jun 17, 2021
Australia may list east coast koalas as endangered
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia is considering listing koalas on the country's east coast as endangered, Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley said on Friday in an emailed statement. Australia alread...
Syndicated Content Jun 17, 2021
Japan Inc joins COVID-19 vaccination push as Olympics loom
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese corporate giants are joining the nation's COVID-19 vaccination effort ahead of the Olympic Games as the government struggles to meet its inoculation targets a...
Syndicated Content Jun 17, 2021
Swimming-Dressel dazzles in 100m trials but Manuel comes up short
(Reuters) - Caeleb Dressel clinched the men's 100m freestyle to punch his ticket to Tokyo with flourish on Thursday, while Simone Manuel's title defence in the women's 100m came to a crushing end at t...
Syndicated Content Jun 17, 2021
Exclusive-U.S. suspects 4,000 cases of fraud in Iraqi refugee program -documents
By Jonathan Landay and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities pursuing a sweeping fraud investigation suspect some 4,000 Iraqis of filing fraudulent applications for resettlement in the Un...
Syndicated Content Jun 17, 2021




