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September 9, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is extending its COVID-19 emergency aid for struggling companies by three months until the end of this year, the finance and economy ministries said on Wednesday. Companies with a pandemic-related drop in sales of at least 30 percent can now apply for liquidity aid of up to 10 […]

September 9, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – British employers are facing the most severe shortage of job candidates on record due to the post-lockdown surge in the economy and Brexit, pushing up starting pay for permanent staff at an unprecedented pace, a recruiters’ body said. In a survey which will be studied by the Bank of […]

September 9, 2021 MILAN (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi discussed on Wednesday the Afghan crisis with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan ahead of a G20 summit to be held in Rome on Oct. 30-31, Draghi’s office said. The “comprehensive” phone conversation explored possible steps to be taken by the international community, including the G20, […]

September 9, 2021 (Reuters) – Poland’s fearless approach to their World Cup qualifying match with England helped them earn a 1-1 draw on Wednesday, midfielder Jakub Moder said. Poland midfielder Damian Szymanski headed in a stoppage time equaliser for the hosts to cancel out Harry Kane’s opener in the 72nd minute as they ended England’s […]

September 9, 2021 PRISTINA (Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed when a fire broke out in a makeshift hospital for COVID-19 patients in the North Macedonian town of Tetovo, the country’s health minister said on Wednesday. “Ten people have been confirmed dead in the blaze so far, but the number could rise. This […]

September 8, 2021 By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – The National Football League (NFL) kicks off another season on Thursday with profound differences of opinion lingering between the league and the union over COVID-19 vaccines and testing, as both parties work to manage the risks of playing in a pandemic. Last month the NFL […]

September 8, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft warned some of its Azure cloud computing customers that a flaw discovered by security researchers could have allowed hackers access to their data. In a blog post from its security response team, Microsoft said it had fixed the flaw reported by Palo Alto Networks and it had […]

September 8, 2021 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc is weighing whether to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees and firing those who refuse to comply, the Financial Times reported https://ift.tt/3ng0fsY on Wednesday. The oil major outlined a case for “selective vaccine mandates” initially at offshore and other remote locations, where staff live and work, and […]

September 8, 2021 BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s benchmark interest rate is set to increase due to rising inflation which has pushed consumer prices above the central bank’s target rate, a member of the bank’s board said on Wednesday, adding rate rises will be gradual. Inflation rose 0.45% in August, above all estimates, and took the […]

September 8, 2021 By Ana Mano and Nayara Figueiredo SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian truckers have staged demonstrations and partially blocked key routes in several states, according to a federal highway police bulletin seen by Reuters on Wednesday, though grains exporters said shipments have not been affected. Truckers were still partially blocking highways at 5:30 […]

September 8, 2021 By Carlos Vargas BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian lawmakers have passed a tax bill set to raise $4 billion annually, the final step in long-running efforts by the government of President Ivan Duque to get a fiscal reform through Congress. Duque’s government has insisted the law is vital at a time of rising […]

September 8, 2021 By Jody Godoy SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) -Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is not a villain but rather a hard-working, young and naive businesswoman whose company simply failed, her lawyer told jurors on Wednesday at the former Silicon Valley star’s trial on fraud charges involving the now-defunct blood-testing startup once valued at $9 […]

September 8, 2021 By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – In September last year, Google’s cloud unit looked into using artificial intelligence to help a financial firm decide whom to lend money to. It turned down the client’s idea after weeks of internal discussions, deeming the project too ethically dicey because the […]

September 8, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Major U.S. airlines plan to announce on Thursday that they will back a voluntary industry target of using 3 billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel in 2030 as the White House looks to reduce aviation sector emissions, sources told Reuters. Airlines for America, an industry trade group, in March […]

September 8, 2021 By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats will not include a provision to raise the federal government’s borrowing limit in a $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” spending measure they hope to pass this autumn, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday. Pelosi said the $28.5 trillion debt limit must be raised, but […]

September 8, 2021 BRASILIA (Reuters) -The chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro was undermining the top court by encouraging people to disobey its rulings after the far-right leader said he would not accept decisions by one of its justices. “The Supreme Court will not tolerate threats to the […]

September 8, 2021 By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan’s first female ambassador to the United States who left her post in July, is clearly horrified by the Taliban takeover of her country. But she is not surprised. In an interview, Rahmani accused the former U.S.-backed government in Kabul of a failure to […]

September 8, 2021 (Changes reference from COVID-10 to COVID-19.) By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -A misinformation campaign on social media in support of Chinese government interests has expanded to new languages and platforms, and it even tried to get people to show up to protests in the United States, researchers said on Wednesday. Experts […]

September 8, 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 […]

It was a busy first half of the year for U.S.-New Zealand company Rocket Lab, which posted earnings for the first six months of 2021 on Wednesday – the first such reporting since the company went public last month. Rocket Lab reported revenues for the six-month period of $29.5 million. Its order backlog also grew […]