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September 7, 2021 By Daniel Trotta SANTA ANA, Calif. (Reuters) – Leonel Sanchez thought he was about to go home to his family after serving three-and-a-half years for assault and other crimes in California, saying he felt redeemed after he started reading the Bible, attending Alcoholics Anonymous and even fighting wildfires as a prisoner. Instead […]

September 7, 2021 By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pushed through police barriers to advance towards Congress in Brasilia on Monday night, the eve of a day of planned demonstrations to back the far-right leader in his dispute with the judiciary. Trucks honked their horns as hundreds of Bolsonaro […]

September 7, 2021 MADRID (Reuters) – Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will chair on Friday an urgent meeting of Spain’s commission against hate crimes amid an uproar over a suspected homophobic assault on a 20-year-old Spaniard in central Madrid. The young man was returning home on Sunday afternoon when eight people wearing hoods managed to surround […]

September 7, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi spoke by telephone on Tuesday about the Afghan crisis, Draghi’s office said. The two leaders also discussed cooperation between their countries at a bilateral level and in the context of a summit of the Group of 20 rich nations […]

September 7, 2021 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government on Tuesday urged the United States to commit funds towards the economic development of southern Mexico and Central America in a bid to help contain a sharp increase in illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border this year. Speaking ahead of talks between U.S. and Mexican officials […]

September 7, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – A prominent Russian human rights lawyer who defended jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s foundation and worked on many high-profile cases said on Tuesday that he had left Russia due to a criminal inquiry against him. Ivan Pavlov is well known inside Russia for taking on politically sensitive cases and […]

As developers look for ways to simplify how they create software, serverless solutions, which enable them to write code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure required to run their applications, is becoming increasingly popular. DigitalOcean announced today that it is enhancing its existing offering in this area with the acquisition of serverless startup Nimbella. The […]

September 7, 2021 (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-min will play no part in South Korea’s World Cup qualifier against Lebanon on Tuesday due to a calf injury, the Korea Football Association (KFA) said hours before the game. The Korean skipper played the full 90 minutes in the goalless draw against Iraq on Thursday […]

September 7, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – After a summer in which stocks have hit a seemingly never-ending run of record highs, September brings a series of monetary and political events that could jolt investors out of their complacency. The will-they-won’t-they debate over trimming pandemic-era stimulus gets an airing with several G10 central banks holding meetings […]

September 7, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – France will hold a national ceremony to pay tribute to famed actor Jean-Paul Belmondo at Paris’ Hotel National des Invalides on Sept 9, said the French presidency on Tuesday. Belmondo, a star of France’s New Wave cinema after his breakthrough performance in Jean-Luc Godard’s “A bout de souffle” (“Breathless”) […]

September 7, 2021 BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe had its warmest summer on record this year, though only by a small margin over two previous highest temperatures for June-August, European Union scientists said on Tuesday. The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said the average surface air temperature in June-August was close to 1.0C above the 1991-2020 […]

September 7, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – Armed robbers targeted a luxury jewellery store near the Ritz Hotel on the opulent Place Vendome in Paris on Tuesday, police in the French capital said. Two suspects were arrested as they fled, police said. Local media said a manhunt for several accomplices was underway. Police cordoned off the […]

September 7, 2021 MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines capital region will remain under the second strictest coronavirus containment measures, a senior official said on Tuesday, despite a day earlier announcing a relaxation of curbs to spur business activity. Imposition of the more relaxed “general community quarantine” in Metro Manila has been deferred, presidential spokesperson Harry […]

September 7, 2021 By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s daily coronavirus positivity rate dropped below the World Health Organization’s (WHO) benchmark standard of 5% this week for the first time, an indicator the country’s devastating second wave could be easing. The positivity rate, or the proportion of people tested who are positive, peaked at […]

September 7, 2021 MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s High Council for Sports (CSD) has postponed Barcelona’s game at Sevilla and Villarreal v Alaves on Saturday following an appeal by the Spanish football league, LaLiga. The league had asked the Spanish FA (RFEF) to postpone the matches given the extended South American World Cup qualifying window put […]

September 7, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – England have added wicketkeeper Jos Buttler and spinner Jack Leach to their squad for the fifth test against India at Old Trafford, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Tuesday. Buttler missed the fourth test at The Oval to attend the birth of his child, while Leach […]

September 7, 2021 (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has been elected to the executive board of the European Club Association (ECA), the body said on Tuesday. Levy will be joined by Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid CEOs Alessandro Antonello and Miguel Angel Gil as the other new members on the board of the […]

September 7, 2021 By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Treasury sees the 2021 budget deficit coming in at under 10% of national output, well below the 11.8% target set in April, as the economy recovers more quickly than expected from the pandemic, a source close to the matter told Reuters. In its latest forecasts […]

September 7, 2021 By Saikat Chatterjee LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar rose for a second consecutive day on Tuesday, moving away from a near-one month low hit last week, as firming U.S. Treasury yields prompted investors to cut short dollar positions against the euro before a central bank meeting this week. The greenback plunged to […]

September 7, 2021 By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK (Reuters) – Major U.S. insurers are joining new digital exchanges to sell not only their own policies but also those of rivals, a fresh twist in an industry known for fierce competition. The powerful new platforms, including Semsee, bolttech, Bold Penguin and Uncharted, pull data from many […]