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October 2, 2021 By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) – Hours after the world expo fair opened in Dubai on Friday, Afghanistan’s exhibition remained closed to visitors in a sign of the challenges facing the country’s new Taliban rulers. Afghanistan is one of nearly 200 nations participating in the six-month fair that was awarded to Dubai […]

October 2, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top anti-corruption watchdog said on Saturday it is investigating a former justice minister, Fu Zhenghua, for suspected serious violations of discipline and national laws. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced the probe in a statement that did not give details about the investigation. Fu could not be […]

October 2, 2021 (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump asked a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to reinstate his account, Bloomberg News reported late on Friday. In July Trump sued (https://ift.tt/3a0e4E0 Twitter), Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google, as well as their chief executives, alleging they unlawfully silence conservative viewpoints. Trump’s request […]

October 2, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Georgians go to the polls on Saturday to vote in local elections that could escalate a political standoff between the ruling party and the opposition a day after the arrest of ex-president and opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili, who left Georgia in 2013 and was sentenced to prison in […]

October 2, 2021 By Kavya B and Roshan Abraham (Reuters) -Worldwide deaths related to COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with unvaccinated people particularly exposed to the virulent Delta strain. The variant has exposed the wide disparities in vaccination rates between rich and poor nations, and the upshot of vaccine […]

October 2, 2021 By Lisa Barrington and Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) – Qataris go to the polls on Saturday in the Gulf Arab state’s first legislative elections, to choose two-thirds of the advisory Shura Council in a vote that has stirred domestic debate about electoral inclusion and citizenship. Thirty members of the 45-seat body will […]

October 2, 2021 By Lidia Kelly and Stefica Nicol Bikes MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia reported 2,355 new cases of the Delta coronavirus variant on Saturday, as the push to vaccinate the country’s population continues in order to end lockdowns and allow for the reopening of international borders. An 18-month ban on international travel is set […]

October 2, 2021 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Lawyers for relatives of 43 student teachers who disappeared in southern Mexico seven years ago criticized the government’s disclosure on Friday of conversations between alleged criminals and authorities linked to the case. The students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014, in the state […]

October 2, 2021 (Reuters) – Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford returned to full training after a recent shoulder operation and should be available after the international break, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said. Rashford said in August he had undergone surgery https://ift.tt/2YbMEID on a shoulder injury, which he picked up during the latter part of the […]

October 2, 2021 (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc’s chief U.S. equity strategist, Tobias Levkovich, died on Friday from injuries he suffered after being struck by a car a month ago, the Nassau County Police Department on New York’s Long Island said in a statement. Levkovich, 60, was hit by a car while crossing a street in […]

October 2, 2021 By Sarah N. Lynch and Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday urged a judge to block a near-total ban on abortion imposed by Texas – the strictest such law in the nation – in a key moment in the ferocious legal fight over abortion access in the United States. […]

“As a nerdy kid I loved tech and was fascinated by how business works,” says Cam Sinclair, founder of Australian growth marketing firm Ammo. “I always knew I wanted to find some way to help founders and innovators get their great ideas out into the world. After working in political campaigns, I realized that many […]

October 2, 2021 Top-seeded Andrey Rublev of Russia beat sixth-seeded Diego Schwartzman of Argentina for the second time in two weeks, prevailing 6-1, 7-5 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the San Diego Open. Rublev edged Schwartzman last week in the Laver Cup at Boston, winning 11-9 in an extended tiebreaker that stood in for […]

October 2, 2021 By Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Electric truck maker Rivian Automotive, which currently sources batteries from South Korean supplier Samsung SDI, plans to build battery cells in-house, its filing for a U.S. initial public offering showed on Friday. The startup, backed by Amazon.com Inc and Ford Motor Co, said in the […]

October 2, 2021 TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan has reported the largest ever incursion by the Chinese air force into its air defence zone, with 38 aircraft flying in two waves on Friday as Beijing marked the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Chinese-claimed Taiwan has complained for a year or more of repeated missions […]

It was almost exactly two years ago that a special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC) spearheaded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya took public the space tourism company Virgin Galactic. It was the first human spaceflight company to trade on the NYSE — or any exchange, for that matter — and it was so successful, with the company’s […]

October 2, 2021 (Reuters) -Rivian Automotive, backed by Amazon.com Inc and Ford, disclosed losses of nearly $1 billion in the first half of the year, the electric-vehicle maker’s U.S. IPO filing showed on Friday. The company has been investing aggressively in ramping up production of its electric vehicles, including its upscale all-electric R1T pickup truck […]

Rivian, the electric automaker backed by Amazon, Ford and a cornucopia of heavy-hitting institutional investors like T. Rowe Price Associates and Coatue, finally made its once-confidential IPO filing public.  The company, which started in 2009 as Mainstream Motors before adopting the Rivian name two years later, has exploded in terms of people, backers and partners […]

SciCheck Digest NBA star Bradley Beal made some misleading comments — shared in viral video clips — about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. No vaccine is 100% effective, but clinical trials and studies show the COVID-19 vaccines are very effective at preventing illness, particularly serious illness, including for those previously infected, such as Beal. How […]

October 1, 2021 By David Shepardson, Abhijith and Ganapavaram WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp outsold General Motors Co in the United States for the first nine months of 2021 as the Detroit automaker grappled with production problems stemming from the semiconductor chip shortage. Toyota during the first nine months sold 1.86 million vehicles […]