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September 10, 2021 By Jessica Resnick-Ault NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil rose to briefly top $73 a barrel on Friday, supported by growing signs of supply tightness in the United States as a result of Hurricane Ida and as U.S.-China trade hopes gave riskier assets a boost. About three quarters of the U.S. Gulf’s offshore oil […]

September 10, 2021 By Oliver Griffin SOACHA, Colombia (Reuters) – It has been a year since Carolina Hurtado rushed to a hospital morgue in Colombia’s capital to identify the bloodied body of her older brother Cristhian, but she still has no definitive answers about how he was killed.     Cristhian Hurtado, 27, was one of […]

September 10, 2021 MONZA, Italy (Reuters) – Formula One could turn sprint races into stand-alone events next year with more points on offer and separate from Sunday’s main grand prix, said motorsport managing director Ross Brawn. The sprint format is being experimented with at three rounds this season, for the second time in this weekend’s […]

September 10, 2021 (Reuters) – India not fielding a team for the final test against England had nothing to do with the rescheduled Indian Premier League (IPL) which left no room for the match to be postponed, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) CEO Tom Harrison said on Friday. With India leading the series 2-1, […]

September 10, 2021 By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Food-delivery companies DoorDash Inc, Grubhub Inc and Uber Eats <UBER.N> have sued New York City over a legislation to license food-delivery apps and to permanently cap commissions they can charge restaurants. The three food-delivery companies filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York late on Thursday. […]

September 10, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former associate of Rudy Giuliani who helped him collect damaging information in Ukraine about U.S. President Joe Biden before the 2020 election pleaded guilty on Friday to one criminal count in a campaign finance case. Igor Fruman, 56, admitted to soliciting money from a foreign […]

September 10, 2021 (Reuters) – At least 20 people have been killed in fighting between militias and Myanmar’s ruling military, a witness and local media said on Friday, in the worst violence since opponents of the junta called this week for a “people’s defensive war”. The National Unity Government (NUG) formed to resist the army’s […]

September 10, 2021 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Olaf was downgraded to a tropical storm and was packing maximum sustained winds of near 70 mph (110 km/h) on Friday, as it lashed Mexico’s Baja California Sur with heavy rains, the U.S.-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The storm’s winds have died down from a maximum of 100 […]

September 10, 2021 (Reuters) – Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy will stand trial on rape and sexual assault charges on Jan. 24 after the Chester Crown Court set a trial date on Friday, British media reported. The 27-year-old, who was denied bail last week after he was charged with four counts of rape and one […]

September 10, 2021 (Reuters) – Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Bruno Lage thanked the Mexican Football Federation on Friday for arriving at a compromise that allowed striker Raul Jimenez to be available for Saturday’s Premier League match against Watford. Wolves said the Mexican FA enquired about Jimenez being banned from playing under FIFA regulations after the 30-year-old […]

September 10, 2021 (Reuters) – Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp has slammed the idea of a World Cup every two years, saying the proposal was nothing more than an opportunity to generate more revenue at the expense of the well-being of players subjected to a “relentless calendar”. FIFA’s Congress in May voted by a large majority […]

September 10, 2021 By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday issued a ruling in “Fortnite” creator Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc’s App Store, striking down some of Apple’s restrictions on how developers can collect payments in apps. The ruling is similar to a move that Apple made to settle an antitrust […]

September 10, 2021 By Nandita Bose and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans and libertarians are vowing to fight U.S. President Joe Biden’s new vaccine mandate covering big companies, healthcare workers and federal employees, announced as the Delta strain of the coronavirus rapidly spreads through the country. The mandate https://reut.rs/3niM2M3, which the White House says […]

September 10, 2021 RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – A few hundred Palestinians held protests in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in support of six militants who broke out of a maximum security Israeli jail this week in an escape that has boosted Palestinian spirits and alarmed Israelis. Israeli forces have mounted a search in […]

September 10, 2021 ESTEPONA, Spain (Reuters) – Unusually strong winds and high late-summer temperatures hindered efforts on Friday to tame a wildfire near a popular resort in southern Spain that has forced over 1,000 people out of their homes and killed an emergency worker. Since erupting on Wednesday evening, the blaze has burned through around […]

September 10, 2021 By Anton Zverev and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin’s crackdown on websites linked to jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny and on technology used to evade online bans are causing major internet outages for the Russian public, say web monitors, online gaming firms and government critics. The disruption shows how new […]

September 10, 2021 By Sruthi Shankar and Ambar Warrick (Reuters) -European stocks closed lower on Friday, down more than 1% this week as investors weighed risks from tighter monetary policies after the European Central Bank signalled a slowdown of pandemic-era bond purchases. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.3% and declined for four of five […]

September 10, 2021 By Kenneth Li (Reuters) – Brian Robbins, head of ViacomCBS Inc’s children’s network Nickelodeon, will take over as the chairman and chief executive of the media company’s Paramount movie studio, according to a source familiar with the matter. Robbins will succeed Jim Gianopulos, Paramount Pictures’ current CEO. The move, first reported by […]

September 10, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia summoned U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan on Friday over alleged interference by the United States in an election, Russian agencies TASS and RIA reported, quoting a diplomatic source. Russian news agencies reported earlier that Sullivan had been summoned over an issue with accreditations for Russian journalists working in the […]

September 10, 2021 BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s financial meltdown has swiftly worsened in the last month, with much of the country crippled by fuel shortages that have ignited country-wide security incidents. Exacerbated by political deadlock, Lebanon’s rapid deterioration has prompted Western concern https://ift.tt/3llL7YL. Some senior Lebanese officials have sounded the alarm https://ift.tt/3zAfhgI about a country […]