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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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CureVac crashes after crucial COVID-19 vaccine trial disappoints
By Ludwig Burger (Reuters) - CureVac shares fell by as much as 52% on Thursday after the German biotech's COVID-19 vaccine proved only 47% effective in an initial trial, denting investor confidence in...
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Tech stocks to drag Wall St lower after Fed’s taper talk
By Shashank Nayar (Reuters) - Technology stocks were set to lead Wall Street lower on Thursday after the Federal Reserve signaled it could start tapering its massive stimulus earlier than expected, pi...
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