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Analysis: Remittance firms slow to add bitcoin, despite El Salvador move
By Tom Arnold and Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) - El Salvador may be touting bitcoin's use to help its citizens living abroad send funds back home, but the biggest remittance firms are cautious about of...
Jun 11, 2021
United won’t furlough flight attendants in October as demand rebounds
(Reuters) - United Airlines will not need to furlough flight attendants assigned to active bases when a current federal payroll support program expires on Oct. 1, according to a memo to staff. John Sl...
Jun 11, 2021
Motor racing-Extreme E cancels South American races due to COVID-19
LONDON (Reuters) - The new Extreme E electric off-road series has cancelled races in Brazil's Amazon and Argentina's Patagonia regions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Scotland now a possible altern...
Jun 11, 2021
Belarusian Nobel laureate writing book on homeland’s ‘revolution with a woman’s face’
By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) - Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel literature prize for her oral history of the end of the Soviet Union, is devoting her latest book to the "revolution with a ...
Jun 11, 2021
Exclusive: Lithium Americas delays Nevada mine work after environmentalist lawsuit
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) - Lithium Americas Corp has delayed plans to excavate its Thacker Pass lithium mine site in Nevada, according to court filings, while a federal judge considers whether the...
Jun 11, 2021
Mexican auto parts lobby sees chip supply crunch over by December
By Sharay Angulo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's main autopart association INA forecasts that the severe semiconductor chip shortage that has slammed the brakes on the global auto industry will subsi...
Jun 11, 2021
Ghana court grants bail to 21 LGBT+ activists
HO, Ghana (Reuters) - A high court in Ghana has granted bail to 21 gay rights activists arrested three weeks ago for what police described as an unlawful gathering, the prosecutor said on Friday. The ...
Jun 11, 2021
French average daily new COVID-19 cases below 5,000, first time since August 2020
PARIS (Reuters) - France reported 3,871 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Friday, the second day in a row that the new cases tally was below 5,000 and the first time since late August 2020 that the s...
Jun 11, 2021
Oregon lawmakers expel colleague for abetting armed intruders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Oregon House of Representatives on Thursday night voted to expel one of its own members accused of coordinating with protesters to allow them into the state Capitol. Securit...
Jun 11, 2021
U.S. decries lack of access to former Marine jailed in Russia – statement
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The U.S. Embassy in Moscow said on Friday it had not been granted consular access to jailed former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed for 16 days, including receiving no updates on his health ...
Jun 11, 2021
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