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September 16, 2021 The U.S. Men’s National team fell out of the top 10 in the newest FIFA world rankings, released Thursday. The Americans fell from No. 10 to 13 after tying with El Salvador and Canada before beating Honduras in the first 2022 World Cup qualifying window. Belgium remains No. 1 in the rankings, […]

September 16, 2021 MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Somalian President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has suspended the prime minister’s power to hire and fire officials, he said in a statement on Thursday, escalating a destabilising row in the Horn of Africa nation. The dispute between Mohamed and Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble, nominally over a murder investigation, has generated […]

September 16, 2021 By Anirban Sen and Krystal Hu (Reuters) – Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner Todd Boehly made a lucrative offer last March that Sportradar Group AG founder and CEO Carsten Koerl could not pass up. He proposed a merger with his special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Horizon Acquisition Corp II that would have valued […]

September 16, 2021 By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender has immediate negative implications for it credit rating S&P Global said on Thursday. S&P said the main risks were that it could threaten its hopes of securing a support programme with the International Monetary Fund, increase fiscal vulnerabilities […]

September 16, 2021 By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Markets dipped globally on Thursday as concerns about investments in China and a down day on Wall Street outweighed positive economic data in the United States. International investors that have been piling into China in recent years are now bracing for one of its […]

Mirantis has been around the block, starting way back as an OpenStack startup, but a few years ago the company began to embrace cloud-native development technologies like containers, microservices and Kubernetes. Today, it announced Mirantis Flow, a fully managed open source set of services designed to help companies manage a cloud-native data center environment, whether […]

Twitter’s creator platform Super Follows is off to an inauspicious start, having contributed to somewhere around $6,000 in U.S. iOS revenue in the first two weeks the feature has been live, according to app intelligence data provided by Sensor Tower. And it’s made only around $600 or so in Canada. A small portion of that […]

September 16, 2021 By Steve Holland (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday directed his ire at the governors of Florida and Texas, accusing the Republican leaders of going to extra lengths to “undermine the life-saving requirements” he proposed on businesses intended to counter the spread of COVID-19. (Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by […]

September 16, 2021 By David Shepardson and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Travelers arriving at the airport nearest Washington, D.C., will face increased security in the run-up to a planned Saturday rally supporting people charged with taking part in the deadly Jan. 6 riot, the Transportation Security Administration said. “Travelers will notice increased law enforcement […]

September 16, 2021 By Elizabeth Culliford and Fanny Potkin (Reuters) -Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities on its platform, using the same strategy its security teams take against campaigns using fake accounts, the company told Reuters. The new approach, reported here […]

September 16, 2021 By Chibuike Oguh (Reuters) – Warburg Pincus LLC is seeking to raise $16 billion from investors for its latest flagship global private equity fund, its biggest ever, according to people familiar with the matter. The New York-based firm is in the early stages of raising Warburg Pincus Global Growth 14, and prospective […]

September 16, 2021 By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – British businesses have reported a sharp rise in recruitment difficulties within the space of just a few weeks – partly as a result of a continued lack of European Union workers, official figures showed on Thursday. Some 41% of companies with 10 or more staff reported […]

September 16, 2021 By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Thursday asked the chiefs of four major fossil fuel companies and two lobbying groups to testify next month on whether the industry led an effort to mislead the public and prevent action to fight climate change. House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and […]

September 16, 2021 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday expressed confidence that Congress will deliver both an infrastructure and supplementary spending bills to his desk that would infuse trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy. Biden’s speech comes as Democrats write a $3.5 billion spending bill that funds child care, community college and […]

September 16, 2021 THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag resigned on Thursday, after a majority of parliament said she had mishandled the evacuation of refugees from Afghanistan last month. Members of parliament from across the political spectrum said Kaag bore responsibility for the government’s slow response to the surge of the Taliban […]

September 16, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that the United States welcomes European countries playing an important role in the Indo-Pacific and said France in particular is a vital partner. Blinken spoke at a news conference after meetings between the U.S. and Australian foreign and defense ministers […]

September 16, 2021 SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – El Salvador’s vice president has delivered the final proposal for constitutional changes to President Nayib Bukele, including the extension of presidential terms and a new electoral tribunal body, the government said on Thursday. The president’s legal adviser, Javier Argueta, said in an interview with a local television station […]

September 16, 2021 By Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) – West African leaders gathered in Accra on Thursday to determine how the region’s main political and economic bloc can steer Guinea back towards constitutional rule following a coup that ousted President Alpha Conde last week. The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) condemned the […]

September 16, 2021 By Steve Scherer MONTREAL (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seeking to carve out a lead ahead of a Sept. 20 election, on Thursday accused his main rival of showing weak leadership in the fight against COVID-19. Opinion polls show Trudeau’s center-left Liberals are tied with the right-of-center Conservatives led by Erin […]

September 16, 2021 By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) – Facebook has removed a network of accounts linked to an anti-COVID restrictions movement in Germany as it announced a new crackdown on coordinated campaigns of real users that cause harm on and off its platforms. Reuters exclusively reported on Thursday that Facebook’s security teams were expanding the […]