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September 3, 2021 By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) – Broadway’s long-awaited reopening kicked off on Thursday with the return of Tony-winning show “Hadestown” – the first musical to come back after an unprecedented 18-month shutdown. “Hadestown,” which won eight Tonys in 2019 for its modern rock twist on the ancient Greek tale of lovers […]

September 3, 2021 TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will not run in a ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership race in September, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday, setting the stage for his replacement after just one year in office. Suga, who took over after Shinzo Abe resigned last September citing ill health, […]

September 3, 2021 TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government is considering easing restrictions on alcohol sales in restaurants and lengthening their opening hours in areas under COVID-19 state of emergency measures, local media reported on Friday. The restrictions could be eased between October and November depending on the progress in vaccinations, the Yomiuri newspaper reported, citing […]

September 3, 2021 By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will step down, Kyodo news reported on Friday, and party sources said he would not run in a ruling party leader race in September, setting the stage for his replacement after just one year in office. Suga, who took […]

September 3, 2021 By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Analysts are split on whether the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will delay tapering plans at its September policy meeting next week, as a faster roll out of coronavirus vaccines offsets a harder-than-expected economic blow from lockdowns. Some 36 of 37 analysts polled by Reuters expect […]

September 3, 2021 By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices dipped on Friday after posting strong overnight gains on a weaker dollar and a bigger-than-expected fall in U.S. crude stocks and were headed for small gains on the week ahead of a highly anticipated U.S. monthly jobs report. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude […]

September 3, 2021 By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea on Friday extended social distancing curbs for several weeks to rein in COVID-19 outbreaks nationwide as the country supercharges its vaccination campaign ahead of a thanksgiving holiday later this month. Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said the toughest level 4 restrictions in greater Seoul and […]

September 3, 2021 CARACAS (Reuters) – Argentina extended their unbeaten run to 21 games on Thursday with a comfortable 3-1 win over Venezuela in their World Cup qualifier in Caracas. Venezuela had beaten Argentina only once in 14 previous World Cup qualifiers and their hopes of doing it again on Thursday were snuffed out when […]

September 3, 2021 By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) – Asian shares held their gains on Friday while the dollar was at a month low against major peers as traders awaited U.S. employment data with global shares at record highs. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was broadly flat in early trading in […]

September 3, 2021 SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will get 4 million doses of the Pfizer Inc coronavirus vaccine in a swap deal with Britain, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, days after announcing a smaller swap agreement with Singapore. The doses will reach Australia over the next few weeks, which will help double the […]

Firefly launched its first rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and on board it carried a number of payloads with an intended destination of low Earth orbit. The rocket took off as planned, and seemed to be doing fairly well during the initial portion of the launch, before experiencing “an anomaly” that clearly […]

September 3, 2021 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former champion Bianca Andreescu overcame a slow start to deliver a gutsy 6-4 6-4 win over American Lauren Davis in the second round of the U.S. Open on Thursday. The sixth seed was down a break four times during the match but never folded, firing 19 winners at […]

September 3, 2021 By Steve Keating NEW YORK (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic’s bid for a 21st major title that would complete a calendar-year Grand Slam picked up pace on Thursday as the world number one cruised into the U.S. Open third round with a 6-2 6-3 6-2 thrashing of Tallon Griekspoor. Having shaken off the […]

September 3, 2021 (Reuters) – Australia has postponed its biggest golf tournaments to 2022 due to COVID-19, organisers said on Friday. The Australian PGA Championship will be moved from a December slot to Jan. 13-16 in Brisbane, while the Nov. 25-28 Australian Open in Sydney has been pushed back to late-January or February. “These decisions […]

September 3, 2021 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Highlights of the fourth day at the U.S. Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, at Flushing Meadows on Thursday (times in GMT): 0151 BROOKSBY OUTLASTS FRITZ IN BATTLE OF AMERICANS American 20-year-old Jenson Brooksby, ranked 99th in the world, came from behind to beat compatriot […]

September 3, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) – Activity in China’s services sector slumped into sharp contraction in August, a private survey showed on Friday, as restrictions to curb the COVID-19 Delta variant threatened to derail the recovery in the world’s second-biggest economy. The Caixin/Markit services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 46.7 in August from 54.9 […]

September 3, 2021 By Vivek Mishra and Vuyani Ndaba BENGALURU/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Volatility in high-risk, high-return emerging market currencies is set to persist amid fears of a “taper tantrum” once the U.S. Federal Reserve starts cutting its bond buying, according to analysts who say a sell-off is likely in the next three months. A majority […]

September 3, 2021 SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -A legal reform in El Salvador that seeks to fire all judges over the age of 60 that was approved by allies of President Nayib Bukele came under criticism from a U.S. official on Thursday, in the latest American rebuke of the president’s agenda. The over-60 purge is also […]

September 3, 2021 WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand reported 28 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, a big drop compared to the last few days, as authorities said the country was breaking the chain of transmission of the highly infectious Delta variant of coronavirus. Authorities said 27 new cases were in Auckland and one was in […]

California DoorDash workers protested outside of the home of DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on Thursday, prompted by a recent California Superior Court Judge ruling calling 2020’s Proposition 22 unconstitutional. Prop 22, which was passed last November in California, would allow app-based companies like DoorDash, Uber and Lyft to continue classifying workers as independent contractors rather […]