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September 28, 2021 By Rupam Jain (Reuters) – When the Taliban won back control of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar last month, they set out to settle a score with an old foe. As they searched for prominent local politician Ajmal Omar – who had helped drive the militants out of a Nangarhar district […]

September 28, 2021 By Michael Erman, Gwladys Fouche and Alistair Smout (Reuters) – School for children in many nations has been underway for more than a month and fears the Delta coronavirus variant would derail in-person learning have largely proven unfounded. In a dozen countries with high vaccination rates in Asia, Europe and the United […]

September 28, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian hacker, sentenced in June 2020 to nine years in a U.S. jail for cyber crimes, was detained at a Moscow airport on Tuesday after being deported by the United States, the TASS news agency quoted Russia’s Interior Ministry as saying. Alexei Burkov was jailed by the United […]

September 28, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – France will slash the number of visas available to nationals from Maghreb countries because of their governments’ refusal to take back illegal migrants sent home by the French authorities, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday. Immigration is becoming a key campaign issue for the French presidential election set […]

September 28, 2021 By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union finance ministers are set to remove the Seychelles, Dominica and Anguilla from the bloc’s blacklist of tax havens next week, documents seen by Reuters indicate, while Panama has failed in its request to be delisted. The list was established in 2017 to counter widespread […]

September 28, 2021 By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – The head of the United Nations atomic agency has said the AUKUS deal in which Australia will obtain nuclear submarine technology from the United States is a “very tricky” issue in terms of inspections but in can be managed. The submarine deal is part of a […]

September 28, 2021 TIRANA (Reuters) – Albania belongs in the European Union in the future and it is up to the European Union to start membership talks, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday during a trip to the region. “Albania’s future is in the European Union,” she said after she visited […]

September 28, 2021 By Kantaro Komiya and Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will lift a coronavirus state of emergency in all regions on Thursday for the first time in nearly six months, as the number of new cases and deaths falls and the strain on the medical system eases, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said. Even […]

September 28, 2021 By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Armed Forces Minister defended her country’s counter-terrorism role in Mali and accused the military junta of hypocrisy, bad faith and wanting to delay a transition to democracy after its prime minister said Paris was abandoning it. Relations between France and its former colony have soured […]

September 28, 2021 BANGKOK (Reuters) – A paramotoring enthusiast in northern Thailand has taken to the skies to help deliver urgently need supplies to people cut off by floods. Thrill-seeker Vichai Tiyasan, 38, has been motoring over waterlogged lands to drop off dry food and essential items in Sukhothai, one of 30 provinces impacted by […]

September 28, 2021 By Michael Holden, Ben Makori and James Davey LONDON (Reuters) -British drivers expressed frustration on Tuesday as they hunted for hours or sat snarled in queues to fill their tanks after gas stations in major cities ran dry due to a trucker shortage that has prompted the government to put the army […]

September 28, 2021 By Philip Blenkinsop and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) -France is seeking to water down a planned joint EU-U.S. declaration on technology cooperation, against the wishes of other EU countries, EU diplomats said on Tuesday. Senior U.S. and European Union officials aim to discuss semiconductor shortages, artificial intelligence and tech competition issues at […]

Burro first crossed our path during our 2020 robotics event, when the agtech company competed in our pitch off. The company (which used to go by the decidedly less fun name Augean) appears to be moving up in the world, announcing a $10.9 million Series A raise this week. S2G Ventures and Toyota Ventures led […]

September 28, 2021 By Muvija M (Reuters) – British transport software firm Microlise saw annual core earnings jump by more than a third as a shortage of truck drivers and cost pressures forced the industry to try to become more efficient. Britain’s departure from the European Union, the COVID-19 pandemic and a shortage of drivers […]

September 28, 2021 By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – The admission by Huawei’s chief financial officer that she misled a bank about the company’s business dealings in Iran likely won’t help the United States as it continues to prosecute Huawei for the same charges. While Meng Wanzhou’s admissions last week https://ift.tt/2W88hJg go to the heart of […]

September 28, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Citi on Tuesday trimmed its China growth forecast for next year to 4.9% from 5.5%, citing expected spillover from the woes of embattled property giant Evergrande, and predicted policy makers would deliver more interest rate reductions. “The balancing between moral hazard risks and contagion risks points towards a managed […]

September 28, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s factory activity likely grew only slightly in September, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday, as high raw material prices and power cuts continued to pressure manufacturers in the world’s second largest economy. The official manufacturing Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI)is expected to stay at 50.1 in September, the same […]

September 28, 2021 By Joseph Ax and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Almost a year after President Joe Biden trounced Donald Trump in Virginia, the state’s unexpectedly tight race for governor has alarmed Democrats and left Republicans hopeful they can win back crucial suburban voters who left the party during Trump’s tumultuous presidency. With early […]

September 28, 2021 TAIPEI (Reuters) – The Taiwan dollar’s exchange rate with the U.S. dollar has been stable this year without large fluctuations, Taiwan’s central bank said on Tuesday, adding it had intervened in the market this year but at a more modest rate than last year. The strength of the currency has been a […]

September 28, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Social media firms must do more to stop advertising “dodgy financial promotions” that fuel a surge in fraud, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority said on Tuesday. “We are putting them on notice that we expect them to be involved in the process of protecting the community,” the FCA’s head of […]