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Southeast Asian Games postponed over COVID-19 crisis – Malaysia Olympic Council
(Reuters) - The Southeast Asian Games due to be held in Vietnam later this year has been postponed until 2022 by the Games federation, Malaysia's Olympic Council said on Thursday. "The SEA Games Feder...
Jul 08, 2021
Panasonic CEO says ready to back Tokyo 2020 on Olympic spectator decision
TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympic sponsor Panasonic will back any decision by Olympic 2020 organizers on whether to allow spectators at the Tokyo games as a rise in COVID-19 infections in Japan's capital trig...
Jul 08, 2021
Asian companies see smallest earnings upgrade in 12 months – Refinitiv data
(Reuters) - Asian firms received their smallest upgrade in 12 months in June, hit by a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in the region which prompted new restrictions on people's movement to curb fres...
Jul 08, 2021
Spanish PM news conference in Lithuania halted for ‘urgent’ jet takeoff
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - A news conference of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda at Lithuania's Siauliai air base was stopped midway on Thursday ...
Jul 08, 2021
Russia, Iran, Turkey to continue cooperation against IS in Syria – RIA cites joint statement
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia, Iran and Turkey will continue to cooperate in Syria to decisively defeat Islamic State and other militants, the RIA news agency cited a joint statement by the nations as say...
Jul 08, 2021
Bulgaria’s new anti-elite faction tied with GERB ahead of Sunday snap polls
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's new anti-establishment party There Is Such a People (ITN) remains closely tied in popularity with the centre-right GERB, which has been in power for most of the past decad...
Jul 08, 2021
Volkswagen weighs appeal against EU fine over emissions tech collusion
BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen said on Thursday it was considering whether to take legal action against an EU antitrust fine, saying the penalty over technical talks about emissions technology with oth...
Jul 08, 2021
Sanofi, GSK get Indian approval for late-stage trial of COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) - Sanofi SA and GlaxoSmithKline Plc have received an approval from Indian authorities for a late-stage clinical trial of their protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, the drugmakers said o...
Jul 08, 2021
French anti-trust decision on Google’s copyright talks with publishers due in coming days
By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) -France's anti-trust watchdog will make a decision in the coming days over the way Google held copyright talks with some French publishers about paying for news con...
Jul 08, 2021
EU fines BMW and Volkswagen Group $1 billion over emission cleaning
By Marine Strauss and Alexander Hbner BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission said on Thursday three German carmakers breached EU antitrust rules by restricting competition in emission cleaning fo...
Jul 08, 2021
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