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October 7, 2021 By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh will convene a second meeting on Thursday of the White House labor task force, a group of cabinet secretaries and top aides that aims to boost union membership in the country, two officials with knowledge of the […]

October 7, 2021 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico sent 129 Haitian migrants by plane to their home country on Wednesday, officials said, after beginning flights to the capital of Port-au-Prince last week amid a jump in Haitian migrants moving to the U.S. border through Mexico. The United States has cleared thousands of Haitian migrants from […]

October 7, 2021 By Gessika Thomas PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The wife of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise said on Wednesday after a judicial hearing into his murder that she would not rest until his killers were brought to justice. Martine Moise went to meet with the judge in charge of the investigation of Moise’s death […]

October 7, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jonathan Kanter, the third of three progressives named to top U.S. antitrust posts by President Joe Biden, pledged on Wednesday to enforce antitrust law in agriculture, pharmaceutical prices and the labor market, as well as in Big Tech. Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee did not focus on the Big […]

October 7, 2021 By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – COVID-19 restrictions will be eased further in Sydney from Monday, authorities said, as Australia’s largest city looks set to exit a nearly four-month lockdown after hitting its 70% full vaccination target. Fully vaccinated people in New South Wales (NSW) state will be able to leave their […]

October 6, 2021 (Reuters) – Manufacturing giant Emerson Electric Co is in talks to merge its software assets with industrial software company Aspen Technology Inc, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Emerson is discussing a deal to combine its software assets with Aspen Tech and gain majority control of […]

October 6, 2021 By Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) – The Indonesian parliament will vote on Thursday on whether to back the government’s proposals for one of the country’s most ambitious tax overhauls, including raising the VAT rate, a new carbon tax and cancelling a planned corporate tax cut. The government has said the Tax Harmonisation […]

October 6, 2021 By Simon Evans MILAN (Reuters) – Midfielder Gavi became Spain’s youngest ever international in Wednesday’s Nations League semi-final victory over Italy and immediately showed why coach Luis Enrique had the faith to throw him into the side at 17 years and 62 days old. Despite having made only three starts for his […]

October 6, 2021 (Reuters) – British teenager Emma Raducanu will return to competition for the first time since her improbable victory at the U.S. Open in her opening match of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells on Friday. The 18-year-old Raducanu, whose U.S. Open triumph last month made her the first qualifier to capture […]

October 6, 2021 (Reuters) – Alexander Zverev welcomed an ATP investigation into allegations of domestic abuse against him, saying on Wednesday it was about time. World number four Zverev’s ex-girlfriend Olga Sharypova said in an interview with online magazine Slate on Aug. 25 that the German was emotionally and physically abusive to her during their […]

October 6, 2021 By Subrat Patnaik (Reuters) -IAC’s digital media arm Dotdash on Wednesday agreed to buy Meredith Corp in a deal valued at about $2.7 billion, bringing titles such as People, Allrecipes and Investopedia under one umbrella. The combined company is to be called Dotdash Meredith and will be led by Dotdash top boss […]

October 6, 2021 By John Shiffman SAN DIEGO (Reuters) -One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T Inc, the world’s largest communications company. A Reuters review of court records shows the role AT&T played […]

October 6, 2021 BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Brazilian agency that regulates health insurance plans has opened an investigation into allegations that a hospital chain tested unproven drugs on elderly COVID-19 patients without their knowledge, the regulator’s director told a Senate inquiry on Wednesday. It was the first instance of a regulatory agency pledging to look […]

October 6, 2021 (Reuters) -Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell mobile ad company MoPub to AppLovin Corp for $1.05 billion in cash, as the microblogging platform looks to focus more on advertisements on its own app and website. MoPub, which generated about $188 million in annual revenue for Twitter last year, […]

October 6, 2021 By Paulina Duran SYDNEY (Reuters) – A group of shareholders filed climate change resolutions with three of Australia’s Big Four banks on Thursday, asking them to abide by their self-declared support for net-zero emissions by 2050 and stop financing fossil fuels. The resolutions ask for a firm commitment from Westpac Banking Corp, […]

October 6, 2021 STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Volvo Trucks has received an order for 100 electric trucks from shipping firm DFDS, its biggest commercial electric truck order to date, the Swedish truck maker said on Wednesday. Volvo Trucks, AB Volvo’s main truck brand, said the order was one of the largest ever for heavy electric trucks […]

October 6, 2021 By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A threat by Democrats to do away with the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule colored Wednesday’s behind-the-scene efforts to avert a looming federal debt default, which economic analysts say could upend the global financial system. President Joe Biden, a former senator who has long defended the filibuster […]

October 6, 2021 By Maggie Fick and Aaron Ross NAIROBI (Reuters) -The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday the only approved vaccine against malaria should be widely given to African children, potentially marking a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually. The WHO recommendation is for RTS,S – […]

October 6, 2021 By Vassilis Triandafyllou and Angeliki Koutantou LIMNI, Greece (Reuters) – In a scorched landscape on the Greek island of Evia, crews of workers chop burnt pine trees, all that’s left from devastating summer wildfires, to set up wooden flood barriers. Walking on a thick carpet of ash and with the smell of […]

October 6, 2021 By Christopher Bing (Reuters) -The Transportation Security Administration will introduce regulations that compel the most important U.S. railroad and airport operators to improve their cybersecurity procedures, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Wednesday. The upcoming changes will make it mandatory for “higher-risk” rail transit companies and “critical” U.S. airport and aircraft […]