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September 28, 2021 By Mimosa Spencer PARIS (Reuters) – French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent returned to the runway for an in-person fashion show under the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday, sending models down a catwalk after dusk with the glittering monument as a backdrop. For the first show of the Kering-owned label on its home […]

September 28, 2021 By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill to permanently end the sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powder, a policy that has led to the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans. In a bipartisan vote of 361-66, the House approved the EQUAL […]

September 28, 2021 By Daniel Ramos and Monica Machicao LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s coca farmers are battling for control of the leaf’s main market in the highland city of La Paz, a conflict which has seen producers and police clash in the streets with slingshots and tear gas, and even a building set on […]

September 28, 2021 By Miguel Pereira and Marco Trujillo LA PALMA, Spain (Reuters) -Spain classified La Palma as a disaster zone on Tuesday, a move that will trigger financial support for the island where a volcanic eruption has wrecked buildings and destroyed crops over the past nine days. The government announced a first package of […]

September 28, 2021 WARSAW (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s proposed three-month working visa for European truckers just isn’t a sweet enough deal to convince 35-year-old Polish truck driver Jakub Pajka to go back to Britain. And he’s not alone. A post-Brexit shortage of lorry drivers – estimated to be around 100,000 – as the […]

September 28, 2021 By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday said that evidence of criminality in the extradition case against former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo is “sufficient,” all but clearing the way for his extradition back to Peru on corruption charges. Peruvian authorities allege that Toledo, while serving as president between […]

September 28, 2021 By Stephen Jewkes and Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) -Greta Thunberg and fellow youth campaigners struck a sceptical tone for this week’s climate talks in Italy, saying much has been promised but little done to tackle global warming in almost three decades since the landmark Earth Summit. Fears that climate change is worsening […]

September 28, 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 28, 2021 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it will allow Epic Games Inc, Amazon.com Inc and other firms to integrate their app stores into the technology giant’s marketplace, giving more options to third-party developers. The Redmond, Washington-based company also said it would not take a cut from app developers’ revenue, when the […]

September 28, 2021 By Hyunjoo Jin CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (Reuters) – Lucid Group Inc said on Tuesday it will start delivering its luxury electric sedans with a Tesla-beating driving range in late October, in a major challenge to the market leader whose sales of premium models have stagnated. The California-based startup began production of its […]

September 28, 2021 By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock Inc, has said it is dipping its toes back in to Chinese equity markets following their heavy falls this year, and on bets that Beijing will soon start providing stimulus again. Some of China’s biggest stocks are on course for […]

September 28, 2021 By David Morgan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans blocked an attempt on Tuesday by President Joe Biden’s Democrats to head off a potentially crippling U.S. credit default, raising questions about whether partisan tensions will threaten the nation’s economy. With federal government funding due to expire on Thursday and borrowing […]

Jack Lynch Contributor Share on Twitter Jack Lynch is an edtech veteran and CEO of HMH, a learning technology company. We’ve heard a lot about the role of technology in pandemic education, and for good reason: Digital solutions enabled school communities to maintain learning through uncertainty and interruption none of us could have imagined. However, […]

Continuing research by Stanford and Apple from the 2017 Apple Heart Study, which managed to enrol over 400,000 participants and became one of the largest studies of its kind ever performed, has shown that the Apple Watch is capable of detecting other types of arrhythmic heart beat irregularities in addition to atrial fibrillation (AFib). Apple […]

September 28, 2021 MILAN (Reuters) – A group led by Italian phone group Telecom Italia (TIM) has presented a plan to the government’s innovation ministry to create a cloud-based infrastructure for the country’s public administration data. The infrastructure, called National Strategic Hub (NSH), is part of the Italian government’s strategy to accelerate digital transformation and […]

September 28, 2021 By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s decision on whether to ban Huawei 5G gear, as all the other members of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network have done, is likely to be made in “coming weeks,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday. His comments about the decision – which has […]

September 28, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday she is looking for G20 countries to reach a political agreement on a global minimum tax deal at the G20 summit in October and has not ruled out a rate higher than 15%. Yellen, speaking to the National Association for Business […]

September 28, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. labor market is in a “jumble” as workers sort out child care and navigate an ongoing pandemic, but the country remains on track for a full recovery, Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic said on Tuesday. “There is a lot of shuffle and a lot of jumble and […]

September 28, 2021 (Reuters) – Micron Technology Inc on Tuesday forecast first-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates, as shortages in chip-making materials appeared to be catching up with the memory chip maker. The company forecast current-quarter revenue of $7.65 billion, plus or minus $200 million, while analysts on average were expecting $8.57 billion, according to […]

September 28, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – France is preparing itself for a substantial conversation with Australia when the time comes after Canberra ditched a defence accord with Paris for a partnership with Britain and the United States, a French presidential official said on Tuesday. France has accused its allies of stabbing it in the back […]