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Jeff Bezos to fly to space on Blue Origin rocket
(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos brother will fly to space next month on the first space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin, the billionaire said on Monday. "Ever since I was five ...
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Afghan troops suffer ‘shockingly high’ casualties as violence mounts
KABUL (Reuters) - At least 150 Afghan troops have been killed or injured in the last 24 hours in a surge of attacks by Taliban militants as foreign forces withdraw, senior government officials said on...
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J&J vaccine drive stalls out in U.S after safety pause
By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Safety concerns about Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine along with overall flagging demand for vaccinations have slowed its U.S. rollout to a crawl, leaving cl...
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Mark Cuban-backed banking app Dave to go public in $4 billion SPAC merger
(Reuters) - Billionaire Mark Cuban-backed Dave said on Monday it would go public through a merger with a blank-check firm sponsored by investment firm Victory Park Capital, valuing the banking app at ...
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Goldman Sachs partners with Visa for corporate payments
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc's commercial and corporate banking clients can now use Visa Inc's networks to make cross-border payments and move money globally, the companies said on Monday. Gold...
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U.S. truck maker Navistar says aware of IT breach
(Reuters) -U.S. truck maker Navistar International Corp said on Monday it was aware that certain data had been extracted from its IT system. "The company, with the assistance of third-party experts, c...
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Fatal accident on Illinois River; name of victim released
***UPDATE*** 6/7/21 7 P.M. 49-year-old Rex Monroe of Peoria has been identified as the drowning victim. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says there was no trauma at play, and a toxicology was pe...
Julia Bradley Jun 07, 2021
Walmart’s Flipkart in talks to raise $3 billion from SoftBank, others – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Walmart Inc-owned Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart is in talks to raise at least $3 billion from investors including Japan's SoftBank Group Corp and several sovereign wealth funds, Bloomber...
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German parliament criticizes Scholz and Merkel over Wirecard – draft report
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's finance minister Olaf Scholz was criticised by lawmakers for bungling oversight of Wirecard, according to a draft report of a public inquiry into Germany's biggest post...
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Indonesia reinforces hospitals amid worrying COVID-19 surge in some areas
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities have drafted in more doctors and nurses to two areas on the islands of Java and Madura after hospitals there approached full capacity amid a spike in coronav...
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