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In Bolsonaro’s backyard, Brazil central bank pressures banks to hew to greener line
By Carolina Mandl and Jamie McGeever SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank is preparing to require banks to account for potential losses from climate change-related phenomena such as dr...
Aug 02, 2021
Olympics-Soccer-U.S women stunned in semi-final loss to Canada
TOKYO (Reuters) -The World Cup-winning United States fell to a surprise 1-0 defeat to Canada in the semi-finals of the women's Olympic football tournament on Monday, with Jessie Fleming grabbing the w...
Aug 02, 2021
Financial regulators urgently need to get a grip on ‘Big Tech’ – BIS
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks and financial regulators urgently need to get to grips with the growing influence of 'Big Tech', according to top officials from central bank umbrella gr...
Aug 02, 2021
Hong Kong tells civil servants to get vaccinated or pay for COVID-19 tests
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Unvaccinated Hong Kong government employees, as well as education and health workers will soon have to pay for regular COVID-19 tests, city leader Carrie Lam said on Monday, anno...
Aug 02, 2021
Blast and financial crisis weigh heavily on mental health of Lebanese
By Maha El Dahan and Imad Creidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Tatiana Hasrouty had always felt safe in her home, a few kilometers away from Beirut port where her father had worked for decades at the facility's ...
Aug 02, 2021
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
LONDON (Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: U.S. will not lock down despite surge, Fauci says The United States will not lock down again to curb COVID-19 but "thin...
Aug 02, 2021
Teenage girls in northern Nigeria ‘open their minds’ with robotics
By Seun Sanni and Nneka Chile KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Teenage girls in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are learning robotics, computing and other STEM subjects as part of an innovative project th...
Aug 02, 2021
The robot apocalypse is hard to find in America’s small and mid-sized factories
By Timothy Aeppel CLEVELAND (Reuters) - When researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology visited Rich Gent's machine shop here to see how automation was spreading to America's small and...
Aug 02, 2021
U.S. Senate works to push $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill to passage
By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will try to complete work this week on a $1 trillion infrastructure investment bill that would bring long-awaited improvements ...
Aug 02, 2021
U.S. labor revival in doubt as Delta raises worries about ‘back to school’
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In April, almost a year after she was laid off from her hospitality firm due to the pandemic, Sara Gard was still barely finding her feet with...
Aug 02, 2021
