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October 9, 2021 By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -The White House on Friday formally blocked an attempt by Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol when he was U.S. president. Press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden had authorized the National Archives, a government agency that […]

October 9, 2021 LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s new prime minister Mirtha Vasquez said redrafting the country’s pro-market constitution is not currently a priority for the government, despite it having been a key campaign promise. “This government is not proposing (to change the constitution) and won’t propose that overnight,” Vasquez said during one of her first […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – Premier League clubs have reached out to the league with complaints about Newcastle United’s takeover by a Saudi Arabia-led consortium and are pushing for an emergency meeting next week, the Guardian newspaper https://ift.tt/3liN3Cg reported. The Premier League announced on Thursday that Newcastle had been sold to a group consisting of […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – Emma Raducanu stumbled in her first match since winning the U.S. Open last month, falling 6-2 6-4 to Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the second round of the Indian Wells tennis tournament on Friday. The 18-year-old British sensation had an aura of invincibility at Flushing Meadows, where the tournament qualifier did not […]

October 9, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) -China has added cryptocurrency mining to a draft list of industries in which investment is restricted or prohibited, although it reduced the number of sectors on the list overall, a document released by the state planner showed on Friday. The “negative list” details sectors and industries that are off-limits to […]

October 9, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to realise “reunification” with Taiwan, though did not directly mention the use of force, following a week of tensions with the Chinese-claimed island. Democratically ruled Taiwan has come under increased military and political pressure from Beijing to accept its sovereignty, but Taipei has […]

October 9, 2021 By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia was bracing for more COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations, officials said on Saturday, even as it moves toward gradually easing pandemic restrictions with the vast majority of its people getting vaccinated against the virus. Sydney, in a lockdown for more than 100 days, is to ease […]

October 9, 2021 DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland on Saturday cut its budget deficit forecast for the year to 3.1% of gross domestic product from a forecast it made three months ago of 5.1% thanks to lower-than-expected spending and strong tax receipts and economic growth. The government had indicated in recent weeks that it expected to […]

October 9, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s executive board adjourned without a decision about the future of Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Friday and said it would seek more information about claims that she pressured World Bank staff to alter data to benefit China in her previous role. The IMF said the […]

October 9, 2021 (In story from Thursday, clarifies in second paragraph that company is Hewlett Packard Enterprise) By Hyunjoo Jin and Subrat Patnaik SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Thursday the electric carmaker plans to move its headquarters from Silicon Valley’s Palo Alto, California to Austin, Texas, where it is […]

October 9, 2021 By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall NEW YORK (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase & Co said Friday it was joining the United Nation’s Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a group of global banks that have committed to dramatically reducing their carbon financing and investment activities. As the largest U.S. bank and a major lender to the fossil fuel […]

October 9, 2021 BOGOTA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Colombia later this month to strengthen the two countries’ relationship and discuss diverse topics related to their shared agenda, the Andean country’s foreign ministry said on Friday. The United States is Colombia’s chief ally in the fight against drug trafficking and […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – Heavyweights Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder tipped the scales at their biggest weights yet on the eve of their highly-anticipated third fight in Las Vegas on Saturday with the WBC belt on the line. Fury, who recovered from a 12th round knockdown in their first meeting to earn a draw […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – The National Football League condemned on Friday the racist slur directed at NFL Players Association (NFLPA) chief DeMaurice Smith by Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden describing the email as “abhorrent”. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Gruden in a 2011 email used a racist trope to describe […]

October 9, 2021 By Sophie Penney (Reuters) – Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has become the youngest recipient of an honorary doctorate from The University of Manchester for his campaign against child poverty, the Premier League club said on Friday. The England international earned widespread praise after successfully campaigning for school food vouchers to be […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – Inflation running above the Bank of England’s target of 2.0 percent is very concerning and it has to be managed to prevent it from becoming permanently embedded, the bank’s governor, Andrew Bailey, said in an interview to The Yorkshire Post newspaper. “We are going to have a very delicate and […]

October 8, 2021 By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) -A group of 136 countries on Friday set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big companies and sought to make it harder for them to avoid taxation in a landmark deal that U.S. President Joe Biden said levelled the playing field. The deal aims to […]

October 8, 2021 By Noel Randewich and Devik Jain (Reuters) – The S&P 500 ended lower on Friday after data showed weaker jobs growth than expected in September, yet investors still expected the Federal Reserve to begin tapering asset purchases this year. Wall Street’s three main indexes were mixed for much of the session before […]

October 9, 2021 By Simon Lewis MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Friday warned Haitian migrants that they would not succeed in reaching the United States, while his Mexican counterpart lamented that many had been tricked into undergoing the long trek with false hopes. The top U.S. diplomat visited Mexico […]

Kevin Ryan has become very wealthy by being at the right place at the right time — including at online ad network Doubleclick, which he joined as its 12th employee and eventually ran as CEO (it was later acquired, twice) — as well as cofounding numerous companies, including the software company MongoDB, which is currently […]