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September 16, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said it was deeply concerned with the economic situation facing Afghanistan and warned of a looming humanitarian crisis facing the country after last month’s takeover by Islamist Taliban insurgents. IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said the global lender’s engagement with Afghanistan remains suspended, which […]

September 16, 2021 (Reuters) – Four-times major winner Brooks Koepka confirmed his participation in next week’s Ryder Cup, after his commitment to the competition was called into question. In an interview with Golf Digest this week, Koepka described the biennial team event between the United States and Europe as “a bit odd” and mentally challenging, […]

September 16, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that it was important for the U.S. government should find a solution to a looming debt limit deadline to avoid “counterproductive brinkmanship” and that Washington should consider replacing the federal borrowing cap. IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told a regular press briefing that […]

September 16, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – General Motors Co said on Thursday it will extend a shutdown of a Michigan assembly plant to mid-October in the aftermath of a new recall of its Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles over battery issues after 10 reported fires. The largest U.S. automaker said the extension of the production halt […]

September 16, 2021 By Jill Serjeant (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Wednesday graced the cover of Time magazine’s annual 100 most influential people in the world issue. The list also includes singers Billie Eilish and Britney Spears, and Olympic gymnast Simone Biles. Harry and Meghan, who quit their royal duties […]

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 […]

September 16, 2021 By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) -British retailers John Lewis Partnership and the Co-operative Group both warned that creaking supply chains would lead to higher prices on Thursday, as a dearth of truck drivers compounds disruption in global freight trade. A combination of the impact of Britain’s exit from the European Union on […]

September 16, 2021 By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -The missiles fired by North Korea on Wednesday were a test of a new “railway-borne missile system” designed as a potential counter-strike to any forces that threaten the country, state news agency KCNA reported on Thursday. The missiles flew 800 km (497 miles) before striking a target […]

September 16, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. business inventory accumulation slowed in July as motor vehicle retailers struggled to restock amid an ongoing global semiconductor shortage, which is forcing automobile manufacturers to scale back production. Business inventories rose 0.5% after increasing 0.9% in June, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. Inventories are a key component […]

September 16, 2021 By Charlotte Bruneau BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A powerful mix of insecurity and traditional prejudice against more liberal female politicians put Awatef Rasheed off running for parliament when she returned to Iraq in 2014 after years abroad. Seven years later, with Iraq less unstable, Rasheed has decided to contest a Oct. 10 election […]

September 16, 2021 COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk sees no indication that the current red-hot shipping market will lose steam this year, its chief executive said on Thursday. Maersk lifted its 2021 outlook again on Thursday, riding the rise in freight rates which has resulted from a congested global supply chain. The […]

Fiberplane, an Amsterdam-based early stage startup that is building collaborative notebooks for SREs (site reliability engineers)  to collaborate around an incident in a similar manner to group editing in a Google Doc, announced a ​​€ 7.5M (approximately $8.8 million USD) seed round today. The round was co-led by Crane Venture Partners and Notion Capital with […]

September 16, 2021 By Steve Scherer MONTREAL (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seeking to carve out a lead ahead of Monday’s election, on Thursday said his main rival had adopted a lax approach to fighting COVID-19 and shown weak leadership. Opinion polls show Trudeau’s Liberals are tied with the right-of-center Conservatives of Erin […]

September 16, 2021 JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian navy has increased patrols around its Natuna islands in the South China Sea after Chinese and U.S. vessels were detected nearby in international waters, despite saying there were no disturbance from the vessels, a navy official said on Thursday. Five navy vessels, assisted by an air patrol, have […]

September 16, 2021 BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union should still consider imposing sanctions on Lebanese politicians who block the progress of the new government, the EU’s parliament said on Thursday, calling Lebanon’s crisis a man-made disaster. This week, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told the European Parliament that, while Lebanon’s economic model was broken, […]

September 16, 2021 (Reuters) – The European Parliament called on Thursday for the 27-nation bloc to strengthen its defence cooperation and investment to become more independent of the United States after the withdrawal from Afghanistan. “The EU must invest in military awareness, surveillance and reconnaissance, intelligence and strategic airlift,” according to a resolution approved in […]

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September 16, 2021 By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Poland must change its legal definition of rape to protect women and stop restricting media, European institutions said on Thursday, in the latest challenges to the ruling nationalists over rights and democracy. Under the eurosceptic, socially-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, Poland has fought with the European […]

September 16, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said it was deeply concerned with the economic situation facing Afghanistan and warned of a looming humanitarian crisis facing the country after last month’s takeover by Islamist Taliban insurgents. IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said the global lender’s engagement with Afghanistan remains suspended, which […]

September 16, 2021 ZURICH (Reuters) -The pace of climate change has not been slowed by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the world remains behind in its battle to cut carbon emissions, the United Nations said on Thursday. The virus-related economic downturn caused only a temporary downturn in CO2 emissions last year and it was not […]