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September 29, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Marks & Spencer pledged on Thursday to become net zero in carbon emissions across its own operations, its entire supply chain and its products by 2040, ten years ahead of a government target for Britain. Britons have become increasingly aware of the urgency of addressing climate change, spurred on […]

September 29, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and European Union trade and competition officials launched a new forum on Wednesday, joining forces to better compete with China, shield sensitive technologies, boost semiconductor supplies and coordinate regulation of large technology firms. Senior cabinet officials from both continents pledged https://reut.rs/3upkWnN to cooperate on the screening of investments […]

September 29, 2021 By Jill Serjeant (Reuters) -AIDS play “The Inheritance” and musical “Moulin Rouge!” won the top honors at Broadway’s Tony Awards on Sunday in a four-hour ceremony that promoted the return of live theatre and called for better opportunities for Black writers and performers. “Tonight feels like a homecoming,” said host Audra McDonald. […]

September 29, 2021 MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s Victoria state reported a record 1,438 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, the highest number for any state since the start of the pandemic last year, and also reported five new deaths. The case count marked a record one-day jump from 950 cases the previous day, even as the […]

September 29, 2021 (Reuters) – Aprilia MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales will miss this weekend’s Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin, Texas, after the death of his 15-year-old cousin in a race accident in Spain last Saturday. Dean Berta Vinales, who rode for the Vinales Racing Team, died after he fell and was hit by […]

September 29, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – People in Britain have turned more pessimistic about the economy amid growing pressure on household budgets from rising energy prices and broader inflation, according to an opinion poll published on Thursday. Twenty-eight percent of respondents in the poll by Kantar Public said they thought the economy would be in […]

September 29, 2021 By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s financial sector has called on the government to ease visa requirements on overseas staff who want to work up to six months in the country to maintain global competitiveness. A Global Talent Mobility report from TheCityUK, City of London Corporation and consultants EY on Thursday […]

September 29, 2021 By Nichola Groom (Reuters) -The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday asked a group of anonymous domestic solar manufacturers for additional information before it would consider a request to impose duties on panels produced in three Southeast Asian countries. The move delays the department’s decision which had been expected this week. The case […]

September 29, 2021 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A plan by Mexican telecoms company America Movil to spin off some of its towers in Latin America was approved by shareholders on Wednesday, the firm said in a filing with the Mexican stock exchange. America Movil, controlled by the family of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said the […]

September 29, 2021 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -U.S. and Mexican officials will hold high-level security talks on Oct. 8, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland would participate in the talks in Mexico City, Ebrard said. “The […]

September 29, 2021 By Suleiman Al-Khalidi JABER CROSSING, Jordan (Reuters) -Jordan fully reopened its main border crossing with Syria on Wednesday in a move to boost the countries’ struggling economies and reinforce a push by Arab states to reintegrate Syria after shunning it during its civil war. Syrian trucks waited to enter Jordan at the […]

September 29, 2021 By Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan discussed securing “tangible and lasting improvements” in human rights with Egypt’s president and other top officials during a visit to Cairo on Wednesday, a senior U.S. official said. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Sullivan also agreed to intensify cooperation over upcoming […]

September 29, 2021 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has reached a settlement with two former employees who said they were terminated last year after they criticized the working conditions at the e-commerce giant’s warehouses, CNBC reported on Wednesday. The terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed, according to the report, which cited an announcement from […]

September 29, 2021 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday suspended the father of Britney Spears from his 13-years-long role as the controller of the singer’s business affairs. “The current situation is not tenable. It reflects a toxic environment which requires the suspension of Jamie Spears effective today,” Los Angeles Superior Court […]

September 29, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee has issued 11 subpoenas in its investigation of Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the panel said in a statement on Wednesday. Former Trump campaign official Katrina Pierson was among the 11 subpoenaed for records and for testimony at depositions, the statement […]

September 29, 2021 Injured Las Vegas Raiders defensive tackle Gerald McCoy tested positive for a banned substance, an admission he made Wednesday afternoon with a qualifier. McCoy, lost for the season in the season with a torn ACL, issued an apology via social media but described his positive test as an “honest mistake.” “I love […]

September 29, 2021 By David Shepardson (Reuters) – Facebook Inc plans to highlight internal research that shows teenage girls felt better after using its Instagram app during a Senate hearing to be held on Thursday, according to the company’s prepared testimony seen by Reuters. The social media giant has been under fire for the past […]

September 29, 2021 By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted on Wednesday to approve three bills to stop practices drugmakers use to raise prices and fend off competition, including a bill to ban the tactic of paying generic companies to delay bringing cheaper versions of their medicines to market. While […]

After a decade of a handful of dominant social media companies trading what are essentially publishing tools in exchange for serving us all an endless deluge of ads, the winds of change are finally blowing — in a few different directions at once. Content creators (arguably either a special echelon of influencers or anyone who […]

September 29, 2021 By David Lawder and Nandita Bose PITTSBURGH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and European Union agreed on Wednesday to deepen transatlantic cooperation to strengthen semiconductor supply chains, curb China’s non-market trade practices and take a more unified approach to regulating big, global technology firms. Launching a new forum, the U.S.-EU Trade and […]