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September 16, 2021 By David Kirton SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – Security personnel in the Chinese city of Shenzhen on Thursday took away protesters who gathered outside the headquarters of cash-strapped real estate developer China Evergrande Group. The country’s second biggest property developer is wrestling with a liquidity crisis, scrambling to raise funds as it teeters […]

September 16, 2021 By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Poland must change its legal definition of rape to better protect women, Europe’s top rights watchdog said on Thursday in the latest challenge to the country’s ruling nationalists over human rights and democratic values. Despite mass protests, the government led by the socially conservative Law and […]

September 16, 2021 By John Irish and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – French military forces have killed the leader of a West African affiliate of Islamic State in an air strike, President Emmanuel Macron and other officials said on Thursday. Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi was head of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), a […]

September 16, 2021 By Ebrahim Harris LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters) – The first plane carrying tourists in more than four months touched down on the Malaysian island of Langkawi on Thursday and was greeted by a twin water cannon “salute”, in the launch of a programme to revive a travel sector frozen by the pandemic. The […]

September 16, 2021 By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) – Low wages and rising prices are crucial issues for Russians at parliamentary elections this week, but maintaining financial stability matters more to the Kremlin than driving growth, economists say, with inflation a lingering concern. The Sept. 17-19 election, the last major vote before a presidential poll […]

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. A lot has changed since then. SoftBank changed the name of the fund to the SoftBank Latin America Fund, or LatAm Fund for short. […]

September 16, 2021 By Joseph Walker MADRID (Reuters) – Real Madrid might have missed out on signing Kylian Mbappe but their youngsters have started the season by showing coach Carlo Ancelotti they can fill any perceived void. Brazilian forward Vinicius Junior, 21, has hit four goals in as many LaLiga games, while 20-year-old countryman Rodrygo […]

September 16, 2021 (In Sept 13 story, corrects in paragraph 23 to say Sharapova was 17, not 18, when she won Wimbledon) By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – Emma Raducanu’s astonishing U.S. Open triumph could lead to a pot of gold worth around 20 million pounds ($27.7 million) over the next two years and that […]

September 16, 2021 DAKAR (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved $67 million emergency support for Equatorial Guinea to help it deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and an explosion at a military base that destroyed much of its mainland city of Bata in March. The IMF said in a statement […]

September 16, 2021 By Mark Miller (Reuters) – The U.S. government recently released its annual report on the health of Social Security. Not surprisingly, that was met with a slew of doomsday forecasts from pundits and media. Social Security will soon be insolvent! Insolvency is coming years earlier than we thought! Benefit cuts are a […]

September 16, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – Carmaker Stellantis plans to launch a new model in India and Latin America next year under its Citroen brand, the group said on Thursday, as it aims to push out of its European turf and branch further into emerging markets where it has less exposure. The plan marks Citroen’s […]

September 16, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – New Hugo Boss chief executive Daniel Grieder wants to buy other brands in order to grow the German fashion house, he was quoted as saying in an interview with Manager Magazin. The German label, which had been struggling to revive its business for years before being hammered by the […]

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September 16, 2021 By Michael Berens ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – When night fell, a clerk at a bustling 24-hour MotoMart flipped a switch from behind the counter. Electromagnetic locks sealed the doorway. A window sign, now illuminated in red, warned “facial recognition technology in use” and directed customers to “look up at the camera.” On […]

September 16, 2021 By Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) – The government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said it will not cooperate with an International Criminal Court (ICC) probe into his notorious war on drugs, or allow any investigators into the country. Judges at the ICC on Wednesday approved a […]

September 16, 2021 By Pushkala Aripaka (Reuters) -Cigarette maker Philip Morris (PMI) has clinched the roughly 1-billion-pound takeover of inhaler maker Vectura after winning the backing of about 75% of shareholders in the British company, part of its expansion beyond tobacco. Vectura shareholders had until Sept. 15 to decide whether to support the 165 pence-per-share […]

September 16, 2021 By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -The missiles fired by North Korea on Wednesday were a test of a new “railway-borne missile system” designed as a potential counter-strike to any forces that threaten the country, state news agency KCNA reported on Thursday. The missiles flew 800 km (497 miles) before striking a target […]

September 16, 2021 BEIRUT (Reuters) – The judge investigating last year’s Beirut port blast issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for former public works minister Youssef Finianos after he failed to show up for questioning, the state National News Agency reported. Finianos, a Hezbollah ally sanctioned by the United States for his links to the […]

September 16, 2021 By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – After 16 years in power, Chancellor Angela Merkel is not seeking re-election in Germany’s Sept. 26 election but she is anything but a lame duck. The likelihood of protracted coalition talks after the vote means Merkel will not be leaving office any time soon and she […]

Byju’s said on Thursday it has acquired California-headquartered Tynker, a leading coding platform for K-12 students, the latest in a series of major purchases as the Indian edtech giant attempts to aggressively expand to international markets. The companies didn’t disclose the terms of the deal, but a person familiar with the matter told TechCrunch that […]