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October 4, 2021 By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices are set to don their black robes and sit once more behind a mahogany bench in their grand courtroom on Monday as they resume in-person oral arguments for the first time since COVID-19 pandemic disruptions started last year. In […]

October 4, 2021 THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Prosecutors at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon seeking to overturn the acquittal of two men over the 2005 assassination of Lebanese former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri said on Monday there had been “fundamental errors” in the judgment. They said judges of the lower chamber had not properly assessed […]

October 4, 2021 SASSARI, Italy (Reuters) – Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont appeared in court on Monday in Sardinia where a judge will decide whether to extradite him to Spain to face sedition charges linked to Catalonia’s 2017 failed independence bid. A few dozen supporters gathered outside, waving Catalan and Sardinian flags and chanting “freedom” […]

October 4, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – Investor morale in the euro zone fell for the third month in a row in October and hit its lowest level since April on dimming economic expectations, a survey showed on Monday. Sentix’s index for the euro zone fell to 16.9 from 19.6 in September. A Reuters poll had […]

October 4, 2021 DUBAI (Reuters) – Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways said on Monday it planned to hire up to 1,000 cabin crew as travel demand rebounds with the easing of international border restrictions and it increases operations. The state-owned carrier would host recruitment days in ten cities from Oct. 11 to Nov. 22 including in […]

October 4, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – British Airways has signalled it could reverse its decision to scrap short-haul flights from London’s no.2 airport Gatwick, after its pilots union took a new proposal to its members about BA’s plans to set up a cheaper unit. British Airways, owned by IAG, was looking for alternative uses for […]

October 4, 2021 By Christoph Steitz FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Premium car brand Audi, Volkswagen’s biggest profit contributor, has to troubleshoot on a day-to-day basis to tackle an ongoing shortage of auto chips, its chief executive said. “We had a very strong first half in 2021. We do expect a much weaker second half. We really […]

October 4, 2021 By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s biggest economies need to do more to ensure environmental, social and governance-related ratings and investments are effective in the transition to a low-carbon economy, a report from the OECD on Monday said. Launched ahead of an October meeting of the G20, the report said […]

October 4, 2021 KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Myanmar’s failure to cooperate with a special envoy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will make it difficult to have the country’s junta leader attend an upcoming summit of the group, Malaysia’s foreign minister said on Monday. Saifuddin Abdullah in a Tweet said he expressed disappointment […]

October 4, 2021 JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will reopen its tourist island Bali for some international travellers, including those from China, New Zealand, and Japan, among others, from Oct. 14, senior cabinet minister Luhut Pandjaitan told reporters on Monday. Visitors will be required to quarantine for eight days, Luhut said. (Reporting by Stanley Widianto; Writing […]

More consolidation is afoot in the world of cybersecurity, specifically around services to help organizations manage identity and access. Today, One Identity — which provides tools for managing “zero trust” access to systems, as well as running log management and other governance services for enterprises — announced that it has acquired OneLogin, a rival to […]

The $110,000 GMC Hummer EV is a wild mashup that can keep up with the best off-roader, has the comfort of a luxury sedan and the speed of a sports car. And it has a truck bed. GM calls it a super truck, and I cannot disagree. After driving the Hummer EV at General Motor’s […]

FoodTech is booming in Europe has grown exponentially. In 2020, €3 billion went into European FoodTech companies (State of European Tech Report, March 2021), and the pandemic has accelerated demand as consumers have shifted to grocery delivery. The industry has also been affected by the rise of direct-to-consumer food brands. Finally, the pandemic created a […]

October 4, 2021 By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s parliament confirmed incumbent Abiy Ahmed as prime minister for a five-year term on Monday, cementing his power domestically amid mounting international concern of his government’s handling of the conflict in northern Ethiopia. Abiy’s party won a landslide victory in June’s election. He was sworn […]

October 4, 2021 By Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Britain warned the European Union on Monday it would trigger safeguard measures in their divorce deal if the bloc failed to agree to changes to smooth trade with Northern Ireland, saying the agreement had “come apart even more quickly than we feared”. In […]

October 4, 2021 By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s government is in talks with U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co to purchase 200,000 courses of the company’s experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 treatment, a Thai official said on Monday. Many Asian countries are scrambling to lock in supplies of the potential treatment early after they lagged […]

October 4, 2021 AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah owns properties in the United States and Britain and this was not a secret, the royal palace said, adding privacy and security reasons were behind not disclosing it. In a massive leak of financial documents published on Sunday, King Abdullah, a close ally of the United […]

October 4, 2021 By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis and other religious leaders made a joint appeal on Monday for next month’s U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) to offer concrete solutions to save the planet from “an unprecedented ecological crisis”. The “Faith and Science: Towards COP26” meeting brought together Christian leaders including […]

October 4, 2021 BEIRUT (Reuters) – The lead judge investigating the disastrous Beirut port blast will be kept on the case after Lebanon’s court of cassation rejected a legal complaint filed against him, local media reported on Monday. The probe was in danger of stalling for the second time this year after the complaint froze […]

October 4, 2021 MADRID (Reuters) – Foreign tourism to Spain rose rapidly in August as looser travel restrictions tempted back summer sunseekers though visitor numbers remained at around half their pre-pandemic levels, official statistics showed on Monday. The number of foreign tourists visiting in August more than doubled from a year ago to 5.19 million […]