September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa won the Vienna City marathon on Sunday but was disqualified soon after when the soles of his shoes were found to be one centimetre too thick and in violation of the rules. Hurisa crossed the line with a time of 2:09:22 but less than 45 minutes later, […]
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Argentines start voting in litmus test for Peronists
September 12, 2021 By Nicolás Misculin and Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentines lined up to vote on Sunday in midterm primaries that represent a litmus test for the center-left Peronist government of President Alberto Fernandez as the COVID-19 pandemic and rising poverty have weakened its popularity. Voting stations around the South American nation opened […]
Qatari foreign minister visits Kabul, Al Jazeera says
September 12, 2021 CAIRO (Reuters) – Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani visited Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday and met Taliban-appointed Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund, Doha-based news channel Al Jazeera reported. Qatar is considered one of the countries with the most influence over the Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan last […]
Tennis-Britain’s Channel 4 nets 9.2 million viewers for Raducanu’s historic title
September 12, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – British teenager Emma Raducanu’s staggering U.S. Open final victory had a nation glued to their screens on Saturday night with Channel 4 saying the audience for their broadcast peaked at 9.2 million viewers. Such was the hype around Raducanu’s fairytale run to the final in New York against Canadian […]
Greece plans firm hand on Afghan migrants, wants more EU help
September 12, 2021 By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece would seek to block a potential wave of Afghan asylum-seekers fleeing Taliban rule and needs more European Union help on migrant issues, the prime minister said on Sunday. The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has brought fears of a replay of 2015 when nearly a million […]
With sales momentum, Bookshop.org looks to future in its fight with Amazon
If Gutenberg were alive today, he’d be a very busy angel investor. With book sales booming during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year, the humble written word has suddenly drawn the limelight from VCs and founders. We’ve seen a whole cavalcade of new products and fundings, including algorithmic recommendation engine BingeBooks, book club startups like Literati […]
Should we care about the lives of our kids’ kids’ kids’ kids’…
We live during a time of live, real-time culture. Telecasts, spontaneous tweetstorms, on-the-scene streams, rapid-response analysis, war rooms, Clubhouses, vlogging. We have to interact with the here and now, feel that frisson of action. It’s a compulsion: we’re enraptured by the dangers that are terrorizing whole segments of the planet. Just this past month, we […]
Motor racing-Hamilton and Verstappen collide and crash at Monza
September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Formula One title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen collided and crashed out of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday. Mercedes’ seven-times world champion Hamilton had pitted and returned alongside Red Bull’s championship leader, with the pair colliding at the first chicane and Verstappen’s car wedged on top […]
Britain’s M&S reviewing future of French stores
September 12, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – British retailer Marks & Spencer said on Sunday it was reviewing the future of its French business, with new trade rules in place since Britain left the European Union continuing to impact product availability in stores. “In light of the new customs arrangements we are taking decisive steps to […]
U.S. Senator Manchin casts doubt on Democrats’ deadline for budget bill
September 12, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin on Sunday said lawmakers were unlikely to finalize their massive spending package by congressional leaders’ Sept. 27 deadline for the budget bill. “There’s no way we can get this done by the Sept. 27 if we do our job,” he told CNN’s “State of […]
Iraqi PM becomes first foreign leader to meet Iran’s Raisi
September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi became the first foreign leader on Sunday to visit and meet with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi since the hardliner took office in August. Iraq has been trying to mediate between Tehran and its Gulf Arab foes, including Saudi Arabia, in the hope of stopping its […]
What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem
Sesie Bonsi Contributor Share on Twitter Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu, a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. hit nearly $1.8 billion in the first half of 2021 — a fourfold increase from the previous year. But most venture-backed startups are […]
Tennis-Raducanu, Fernandez mark depth of women’s game, signal enticing future
September 12, 2021 By Sudipto Ganguly (Reuters) – With Serena Williams pulling out due to fitness issues even before a ball had been hit and Naomi Osaka and Ash Barty dispatched in the third round, a loss of interest in the women’s singles draw at this year’s U.S. Open was palpable. But no one could […]
Norwegians begin voting in election centred on oil, equality
September 12, 2021 By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – Norwegians went to the polls on Sunday for the first of two days of voting in a parliamentary election dominated by the widening gap between rich and poor, climate change and how the oil-producing nation should adapt to the energy transition. Opinion polls […]
Pilot error likely caused fatal Air India Express crash – report
September 12, 2021 MUMBAI (Reuters) – Pilot error and a failure to follow safety guidelines probably caused the Air India Express crash that killed 21 people last year, the country’s worst aviation accident in a decade, investigators said in a report on Saturday. The Boeing 737, repatriating Indians stranded in Dubai due to the coronavirus […]
In Hungary, pope says anti-Semitism ‘fuse’ must not be allowed to burn
September 12, 2021 By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Pope Francis called on Sunday for vigilance against a rise in anti-Semitism, saying during a brief trip to Hungary this was a “fuse that must not be allowed to burn.” The pope arrived in Hungary early on Sunday for an unusually short visit underlining differences with […]
No vaccine passports: UK PM to set out winter COVID-19 plan
September 12, 2021 By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will this week set out his plans to manage the COVID-19 pandemic in the winter months, announcing a decision to scrap the introduction of vaccine passports and steps to end some emergency powers. Johnson, under fire from some in his governing […]
Motor racing-Mercedes see engine compromise to help VW enter Formula One
September 12, 2021 By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Mercedes are open to compromise on Formula One’s future engine rules to make it easier for the Volkswagen Group to enter the sport, motorsport head and F1 team boss Toto Wolff told reporters at the Italian Grand Prix. The sport is due to introduce a new engine […]
Strong typhoon cuts power, causes flooding in northern Philippines
September 12, 2021 MANILA (Reuters) – Several communities remain flooded and without power after a strong typhoon battered the Philippines’ northernmost islands, the authorities said on Sunday, displacing thousands of people. Typhoon Chanthu, which at one point was categorised by the Philippine weather bureau as a category 5 storm, has weakened after powering into the […]
German SPD extends lead over Merkel’s conservatives before TV election debate
September 12, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) have opened up a bigger lead over Armin Laschet’s conservative bloc, a poll showed on Sunday ahead of a primetime television debate between the three main candidates to succeed Angela Merkel as Chancellor. Two weeks before a national election which has proved to be unexpectedly […]
