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Wildfire razes pinelands near top Cuba tourist town of Viñales
HAVANA (Reuters) - A wildfire blazed early on Wednesday outside the picturesque western Cuba valley town of Vinales, state-ru...
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Columbia extends protest deadline after students agree to dismantle some tents
By Jonathan Allen and Brendan O'Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) - Columbia University students agreed to take down "a significa...
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Biden pardons 11 people, commutes sentences of five others, says White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday pardoned 11 people and commuted the sentences of five others who...
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US ban on worker noncompete agreements faces lawsuit from major business group
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest business lobby, filed a lawsuit on Wednesd...
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EU Parliament backs clampdown on single-use plastic packaging
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament approved a proposed law on Wednesday that would ban certain singl...
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National Sports
Cycling-Chile replace Argentina as 2025 Track World Championships hosts
(Reuters) - The 2025 Track Cycling World Championships will be held in Santiago, Chile and not San Juan, Argentina as previou...
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Olympics-Parisians warm up for Olympics with workouts in Louvre museum
By Louise Dalmasso PARIS (Reuters) - Parisians warmed up for the coming Olympics with a series of workouts inside the renowne...
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Olympics-Salt Lake City poised for 2034 Olympics award
By Rory Carroll NEW YORK (Reuters) - Salt Lake City is all but guaranteed to be awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics later this y...
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Olympics-Canoe queen Carrington looks to add to New Zealand record haul in Paris
(Reuters) - Canoe sprint champion Lisa Carrington became New Zealand's most decorated Olympian at the Tokyo Games and is not ...
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Golf-LIV open-minded about moving to 72-hole format, Norman says
(Reuters) - LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman said he is open-minded about the idea of moving to a traditional 72-hole format, though ...
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World
Iran sentences rapper Toomaj Salehi to death over 2022-23 unrest, lawyer tells paper
DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi to death for charges l...
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Poland's Tusk reaches for big-hitters in European election fight
WARSAW (Reuters) - Three ministers from the largest party in Poland's government will stand in European parliament elections,...
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EU Parliament adopts first EU-wide rules to combat domestic abuse
By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted the first EU-wide rules on comb...
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Moldova brings criminal case against pro-Russian Gagauzia leader to court
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) -A criminal case against the governor of Moldova's region of Gagauzia has been sent to ...
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German spy agency warns companies against being too "naive" on China
By Andreas Rinke and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's domestic spy agency told companies on Wednesday they should be ...
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Business
Canada retail sales miss expectations with second monthly fall
By Promit Mukherjee OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's retail sales contracted for the second consecutive month in February, missing...
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Exclusive-Russian ministry stress scenario has growth stalling, rouble diving, document shows
By Darya Korsunskaya LONDON (Reuters) - Stress scenarios from Russia's economy ministry envisage GDP and real income growth a...
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HSBC says growing Chinese wealth fuels client investments in US
By Tatiana Bautzer and Lananh Nguyen NEW YORK (Reuters) - HSBC's wealthy clients in China and Hong Kong are still eager to in...
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Klarna to offer payment services on Uber's platform
(Reuters) - Sweden's Klarna on Wednesday partnered with Uber Technologies to offer its payment services across the company's ...
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ASML approves Christophe Fouquet as CEO at annual meeting
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -ASML has approved the appointment of Christophe Fouquet as the company's new CEO. Fouquet, 50, took up h...
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Politics
Biden notches another union endorsement as building trades back reelection
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden secured the backing of another union on Wednesday as the organization representing...
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Biden administration toughens school nutrition standards
(Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday announced new rules limiting the sugar and sodium content of meals served t...
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US Supreme Court weighs Idaho's strict abortion ban in medical emergencies
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday wades back into the battle over ab...
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Trump lawyer Todd Blanche draws judge's ire as historic trial gets underway
By Luc Cohen and Andrew Goudsward NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's attorney Todd Blanche took a risk giving up a plush car...
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Trump hush money trial: what we've learned so far
By Andy Sullivan, Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York on crim...
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Health
Saudi Arabian healthcare group Fakeeh Care Group announces IPO
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Fakeeh Care Group, one of the largest private hospital groups in the kingdom, said on Wednes...
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India inspects spice makers MDH, Everest over alleged contamination
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India is inspecting facilities of spice makers MDH and Everest for compliance with quality standards af...
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Boston Scientific raises annual profit forecast on strong demand for heart devices
(Reuters) -Medical device maker Boston Scientific raised its annual profit forecast on Wednesday as the company banks on resi...
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Biogen beats quarterly profit estimates, Alzheimer's drug sales jump
(Reuters) - Biogen beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by a series of cost-cutting measu...
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Humana beats first-quarter profit estimates on strength in Medicare business
(Reuters) -Humana beat first-quarter profit expectations on Wednesday, helped by strength in its government-backed insurance ...
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Science
Huge energetic flare from magnetic neutron star detected
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Magnetars are among the universe's most extreme objects - a class of the compact stella...
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Factbox-Shenzhou-18 caps over two decades of Chinese human spaceflight
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will send three astronauts into low-Earth orbit on Thursday in the country's 13th crewed mission to...
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US, Russia set for a showdown at UN over nuclear weapons in space
By Michelle Nichols and Joey Roulette UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Russia are set to face off ...
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Three Russians parachute from stratosphere to North Pole
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russians set a world record for parachuting from the Earth's stratosphere to the North Pole last wee...
Apr 19, 2024
Fossils of colossal snake Vasuki unearthed in India mine
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a lignite mine are the remains of one of the largest snak...
Apr 18, 2024
Technology
ASML CEO says US restricts servicing some China equipment, won't hurt earnings
By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The outgoing chief executive of top semiconductor equipment supplier ASML said on Wedn...
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Interpublic faces muted ad spending amid Middle East conflict
(Reuters) - Interpublic reported sharp revenue drops in some of its international markets on Wednesday, including the Middle ...
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Hong Kong spot crypto ETFs to start trading next week
(Reuters) - Hong Kong-listed spot bitcoin and ether exchange traded funds aim to start trading by the end of April, three com...
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TikTok to suspend TikTok Lite's reward programme amid EU concerns
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - TikTok will voluntarily suspend its new app TikTok Lite's reward programme while it works to address EU ...
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Klarna to offer payment services on Uber's platform
(Reuters) - Sweden's Klarna on Wednesday partnered with Uber Technologies to offer its payment services across the company's ...
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Entertainment
Young Russians dance to K-pop and watch anime amid Asian culture boom
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A few years ago, Karina Marakshina had to explain what K-pop was when asked to describe the musical style ...
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Eurovision euphoria boosts travel to Sweden's Malmo, eDreams says
(Reuters) - Eurovision fever boosted travel searches for the Swedish coastal city of Malmo by 176% between September 2023 and...
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Record giant HYBE audits 'NewJeans' label as infighting returns to K-pop
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's largest music company is auditing the management of one of its labels as it susp...
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John Lennon's lost 1960s acoustic guitar to go up for auction
By Lisa Keddie and Will Russell LONDON (Reuters) - A previously lost 12-string acoustic guitar that belonged to the late John...
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Germany's RTL acquires Nickelodeon rights for children's TV network
BERLIN (Reuters) - Super RTL, a children's television network belonging to Bertelsmann's RTL Group, has struck a deal to acqu...
Apr 23, 2024