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September 10, 2021 (Reuters) -Japan Airlines Co Ltd (JAL) said on Friday it had finalised plans to issue 300 billion yen ($2.73 billion) of hybrid loans and subordinated bonds to help position it for a changed business environment due to the pandemic. It will raise 200 billion yen from hybrid loans and 100 billion from […]

September 10, 2021 (Reuters) – The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) lifted its curtains to a live audience for the first time in two years on Thursday with the world premiere of the musical “Dear Evan Hansen”. The film, an adaptation of the Broadway production, stars Tony Award winner Ben Platt reprising his role as […]

September 10, 2021 WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand reported 11 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, all in locked down Auckland, its biggest city, as the country looks to limit the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus. The latest daily number was down from the 13 infections recorded on Thursday and […]

September 10, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday, the White House said, with both leaders discussing the need to avoid letting competition between the world’s two largest economies veer into conflict. Relations between Washington and Beijing have been at their lowest point in […]

September 10, 2021 By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices dipped on Friday, heading for weekly losses of nearly 2%, after China announced it would release oil from it strategic reserve and some U.S. airlines, key to a recovery in jet fuel demand, warned of a slowdown in ticket sales https://ift.tt/3nkkMN2. U.S. West Texas […]

September 10, 2021 By Steve Keating NEW YORK (Reuters) – Leylah Fernandez’s storybook U.S. Open continued with yet another upset on Thursday as the Canadian teenager shocked second seed Aryna Sabalenka 7-6(3) 4-6 6-4 to reach her first Grand Slam final. Rankings-wise, the second seeded Belarusian represented the toughest challenge yet for the 19-year-old lefhander […]

September 10, 2021 BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick to give Argentina a 3-0 win over Bolivia in a World Cup qualifier on Thursday, lifting him above Pele as South America’s top international scorer with 79 goals. Messi got the opener after 14 minutes in Buenos Aires, dancing around the Bolivian defence before […]

September 10, 2021 By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The dollar headed for its first winning week in three on Friday after rebounding from a payrolls-induced sell-off, as investors continued to ponder the timing of a tapering of Federal Reserve stimulus. The dollar index, which gauges the greenback against six major peers, was little changed […]

September 10, 2021 KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Top Glove Corporation said on Friday it has been allowed to resume exporting and selling gloves to the United States, following an import ban imposed since last year. U.S. authorities had banned disposable gloves made by the world’s largest medical glove maker since July 2020, saying in […]

September 10, 2021 (Reuters) – Food-delivery companies DoorDash Inc, Grubhub Inc and Uber Eats have sued New York City over a law permanently capping commissions the apps can charge restaurants to use their services, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday https://on.wsj.com/2YJtTNd. The three food-delivery companies filed the suit in federal court in New York […]

September 10, 2021 SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Victoria state reported its biggest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases this year, the majority in Melbourne, as most other regions in the state exited lockdown on Friday. Officials have announced plans to bring Melbourne and Sydney out of extended lockdowns in coming weeks, despite infections continuing to rise […]

September 10, 2021 By David Ljunggren and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -The head of Canada’s main opposition Conservatives kicked off a crucial leaders’ debate on Thursday ahead of the Sept. 20 election by insisting he was in charge of his party and would not bow to the views of legislators with hardline social views. Polls […]

September 10, 2021 By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s popular vaccination minister, Taro Kono, is set to announce his candidacy on Friday for leader of the country’s ruling political party and, by extension, its next prime minister. Kono’s decision to throw his hat in the ring for the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party […]

September 10, 2021 SYDNEY (Reuters) – Lock Brodie Retallick will captain New Zealand for the first time in the absence of Ardie Savea when the All Blacks take on Argentina in the Rugby Championship on Australia’s Gold Coast on Sunday. Loose forward Savea suffered a head knock in the 38-21 defeat of the Wallabies in […]

September 10, 2021 By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England will raise borrowing costs by end-2022, earlier than previously thought, and there is a chance it comes even sooner as a solid economic recovery from the pandemic and high inflation may tip its hand, a Reuters poll found. Like central banks across […]

September 10, 2021 (Corrects spelling of first name in first paragraph) By Paulina Duran SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s government has appointed Nicholas Moore, who led Macquarie Group for a decade until 2018, to chair a new regulator review board to report on the effectiveness of the country’s banking and corporate regulators. The new body was […]

September 10, 2021 By Joyce Zhou HONG KONG (Reuters) – Guide Michael Tsang was able to take tourists freely around Asia’s financial hub in 2019, introducing them the city’s protest movement, explaining “one country, two systems” and showing them scenes of economic inequality. Since the coronavirus pandemic cut off foreign visitors and a sweeping national […]

September 10, 2021 By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House Natural Resources Committee late on Thursday passed legislation that will go into a wider budget reconciliation package that includes restoring protections for a pristine Arctic wildlife refuge from oil and gas drilling. The committee approved the measure 24-13 after Republicans weighed down the process […]

September 10, 2021 By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele stepped in on Wednesday to manage the fraught roll-out of a payments app that underpins the nation’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, and called on users to report any problems on his Twitter feed. Adopting language similar to IT departments in […]

September 10, 2021 MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Gaston Pereiro scored in stoppage time to give Uruguay a 1-0 win over Ecuador in Thursday’s World Cup qualifier in Montevideo. Uruguay had only one shot on target the whole game but Pereiro’s header in the 92nd minute was enough to lift the home side above Ecuador and into […]