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Japan’s average minimum wage set to rise at record pace this year – Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's average minimum wage is set to rise at a record pace in the current fiscal year ending in March 2023 as global commodity inflation pushes up households' living costs, the Nik...
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Brazil’s TIM reports 54% decline in quarterly profit
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian telecom TIM SA posted a 54.1% decrease in second quarter net profit, as inflationary pressures offset solid revenue growth, the company said on Monday. TIM Brazil, cont...
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U.S. senators Schumer, Warner join calls to blacklist Chinese chipmaker YMTC
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - Top Democrats including Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer have joined an effort to place China's fast-growing chip manufacturer, Yangtze Memory Technologies Company (Y...
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Hotter summers mean Florida’s turtles are mostly born female
By Maria Alejandra Cardona MARATHON, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida's sea turtles are grappling with a gender imbalance made worse by climate change. Recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches t...
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West Nile detected in Tazewell County
PEKIN, Ill. – Another of the Tri-Counties once again has West Nile Virus in its midst. The Tazewell County Health Department says the virus was found in a mosquito pool recently in Pekin. Health...
Will Stevenson Aug 01, 2022

Biden: Al Qaeda leader Zawahiri killed in U.S. strike in Afghanistan
UPDATED 6:45 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a U.S. strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, President Joe Biden said on Monday, the biggest blow to the milit...
Cooper Banks Aug 01, 2022
U.S. needs full access to Chinese company audit papers to resolve accounting dispute – watchdog
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. public company accounting regulator will not accept any restrictions on its access to the audit papers of Chinese companies listed in New York, its c...
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Exclusive: France, Italy, Spain call for tech firms to pay for telecoms networks
By Elvira Pollina and Giuseppe Fonte MILAN (Reuters) - France, Italy and Spain are stepping up pressure on the European Commission to come up with legislation that ensures Big Tech firms partly financ...
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U.S. Senate Democrats hope for green light on $430 billion climate, drug bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday were awaiting a ruling from the a chamber referee this week on whether they can override the legislature's normal rules to pass a $430 billion dr...
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Man who posed as DHS agent pleads guilty and vows to cooperate in ongoing probe
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man who posed as a federal law enforcement agent and lavished gifts on members of the U.S. Secret Service pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiracy and other ch...
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