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September 29, 2021 By Andrew Galbraith, Anshuman Daga and Karin Strohecker HONG KONG (Reuters) – At least some of China Evergrande’s offshore bondholders had not received a due coupon payment by the close of Asia business on Wednesday, sources said, although the cash-strapped developer reached a $1.5 billion deal to settle debt with a Chinese […]

September 29, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – Rolls-Royce will produce only electric cars by 2030, the luxury carmaker said on Wednesday, joining other premium brands making the switch such as Volkswagen’s Bentley and Jaguar’s Land Rover. The BMW-owned brand said in a statement that its first fully electric powered car, named ‘Spectre’, will be on the […]

September 29, 2021 By Katanga Johnson and Ross Kerber WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) -The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday proposed requiring large hedge funds and endowments to disclose how they vote on executive pay, bringing this clutch of influential investors in line with other top funds that have made their pay votes public for a decade. […]

September 29, 2021 By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – An extraordinary meeting of the Group of 20 major economies to discuss Afghanistan will take place on Oct. 12, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Wednesday. Italy holds the rotating G20 presidency this year and Draghi has recently discussed Afghanistan with other world leaders – […]

September 29, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – The late Princess Diana has been honoured with a “blue plaque” at her former flat in west London where she lived before she became engaged to British heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles. The plaque is on the building that was her home between 1979 and 1981 – 60 Coleherne Court – […]

Meetings can go one of two ways… either be productive, or be ineffective. Read AI wants all meeting goers to be engaged and feel productive, and it has developed a real-time shared dashboard to alert meeting participants when things are going well or not so well. The Seattle-based company emerged from stealth mode Wednesday with […]

YouTube expanded its medical misinformation policies today to include new guidelines that ban vaccine misinformation. The Google-owned video platform had previously banned over 1 million videos spreading dangerous COVID-19 misinformation. Now, YouTube says it will also remove content that spreads misinformation about vaccine safety, the efficacy of vaccines, and ingredients in vaccines. The platform previously […]

September 29, 2021 ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Wednesday he will present plans to cabinet next week for a broad overhaul of Italy’s tax system. The government said in the spring it would present the tax reform by July, but Draghi told reporters the delay was not due to disagreements among […]

September 29, 2021 Adam Wainwright earned his 17th victory as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the visiting Milwaukee Brewers 6-2 on Tuesday night to clinch a berth in the National League wild-card game. Wainwright (17-7) allowed two runs on seven hits in six innings and drove in a run as the Cardinals extended their team-record […]

September 29, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, moving beyond its ban on false information about the COVID vaccines to include content that contains misinformation about other approved vaccines, it said in a blog post on Wednesday. Examples of content that won’t be allowed on YouTube include claims that the flu vaccine […]

September 29, 2021 By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) -President Kais Saied named a geologist with little government experience as Tunisia’s first woman prime minister on Wednesday amid a crisis following his seizure of sweeping powers and with public finances close to breaking point. He asked Najla Bouden Romdhane, a little-known professor of […]

September 29, 2021 By Gabriel Crossley and Shivani Singh SHENYANG, China (Reuters) – China on Wednesday demanded railway companies and local authorities raise their game in shipping vital coal supplies to utilities, as regions key to the world’s no. 2 economy grapple with power cuts that have crippled industrial output. The order, handed down from […]

September 29, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – France warned Mali on Thursday that it would lose the support of the international community if it agreed a deal with Russian mercenaries. Diplomatic and security sources have told Reuters that Mali’s year-old military junta is close to recruiting the Russian Wagner Group https://ift.tt/2Y4lKCM, and France has launched a […]

September 29, 2021 By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) -Funds managing nearly $30 trillion in assets called on Wednesday for 1,600 of the world’s most polluting companies to “urgently” set science-based emissions reduction targets. The 220 investors, including Fidelity International and Amundi, said they had written to CEOs of firms they invest in demanding targets that […]

September 29, 2021 By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats in Congress on Wednesday mobilized to defuse one of several crises they face this week, saying they would vote to head off an imminent government shutdown before funding expires at midnight on Thursday. The Senate could vote on Wednesday or Thursday to fund […]

September 29, 2021 By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Armed Forces minister defended her country’s counterterrorism role in Mali and accused the military junta of hypocrisy, bad faith and wanting to delay a transition to democracy after the African country’s prime minister said Paris was abandoning it. Relations between France and its former colony have […]

September 29, 2021 By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – The secretaries handing out ballots as Japan’s ruling party chose the next prime minister on Wednesday were all women. The power brokers and lawmakers doing the voting were overwhelmingly men. For the first time ever, two women stood in the race to become leader of the […]

September 29, 2021 By Radu-Sorin Marinas and Octav Ganea BUCHAREST (Reuters) – For 32-year-old Romanian international trucker Nicolae, Britain’s driver crisis could be just what he needs to keep his small business afloat. Britain’s shortage of about 100,000 truck drivers, the result of workers leaving the industry, Brexit and the pandemic, has caused havoc with […]

September 29, 2021 By David Kirton ZHUHAI, China (Reuters) – Some instant messaging groups used by people owed money by property giant China Evergrande Group to organize protests and discuss claims have been blocked on Tencent Holdings’ WeChat platform, group members said on Wednesday. Eight users across at least eight different groups, each numbering around […]

September 29, 2021 By Pete Schroeder and Michelle Price WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wall Street firms are sounding alarm bells and dusting off contingency plans as fears grow that Congress may fail to reach a deal to raise the country’s debt limit in time, executives said. With federal government funding due to expire on Thursday and […]