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Explainer: Why do France’s regional elections matter? Look ahead
PARIS (Reuters) - France holds elections this month for all 13 regional authorities on the mainland. For President Emmanuel Macron, the stakes are higher than who will get to build a tram in Brittany ...
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No decision yet on easing restrictions for vaccinated travellers, says UK PM’s spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) - No decision has been made yet on whether to ease travel restrictions for those people who have received two COVID-19 vaccines, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson s...
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Tennis-Nadal pulls out of Wimbledon and Tokyo Olympics to prolong career
(Reuters) -Rafa Nadal pulled out of Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, saying he took the decision after consultations with his team in a bid to prolong his career. The 35-year-old Spaniard...
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Index publisher MSCI looking at launch of crypto indexes
By Aaron Saldanha (Reuters) - Global securities index publisher MSCI is looking at launching indexes for cryptocurrency assets, according to Chief Executive Henry Fernandez, in what would be another s...
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COVID-19 cases surge in Africa, less than 0.8% of fully vaccinated, say officials
NAIROBI (Reuters) - COVID-19 cases rose by over 20% week-on-week in nearly two dozen African countries and progress on vaccinating Africans is proceeding slowly, with just 0.79% of people on the conti...
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JPMorgan buys investment platform Nutmeg in UK retail push
LONDON (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase has bought Britain's biggest digital wealth manager Nutmeg, as the U.S. giant gears up for a big retail expansion push in the UK. Nutmeg - which has more than 140,000 ...
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Italy’s embattled mayors seek shelter from legal bombardment
By Angelo Amante and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Stefania Bonaldi, the mayor of the northern Italian town of Crema, was attending a public ceremony this month when a policeman arrived to inform h...
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COVID-19 out of control in Afghanistan as cases up 2,400% in a month
KABUL (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic is spiralling out of control in Afghanistan, with cases rising 2,400% in the past month, hospitals filling up and medical resources quickly running out, the Int...
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Breaking ranks, Norway signals 4 rate hikes by mid-2022
By Terje Solsvik and Victoria Klesty OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's central bank said on Thursday it expected to raise interest rates four times by mid-2022 as the economy shakes off the effects of COVID-1...
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Two dead in shooting in German town, shooter on the run
BERLIN (Reuters) -A man and a woman were killed in a shooting spree in the centre of the western German town of Espelkamp, and the shooter was on the run, police said on Thursday. Bild newspaper quote...
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