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UK public sector workers to get 5% pay rise -FT
LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of British public-sector workers will be offered pay rises averaging 5% next week, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed government ministers. The FT repor...
Jul 15, 2022
Coroner: Homicide-Suicide ruled in Thursday deaths
PEORIA, Ill. – One is a homicide. The other is a suicide. That is the ruling from Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood on the two bodies found in the basement of a Central Peoria home Thursday, f...
Jul 15, 2022
Russian government OKs investing 50% of rainy-day fund in OFZ bonds
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government approved investing up to a half of its rainy-day National Wealth Fund (NWF) in Russian state bonds, a decree showed on Friday, months after foreign investors ...
Jul 15, 2022
U.S. says Turkish businessman extradited to Utah to face money laundering, fraud charges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Turkish businessman Sezgin Baran Korkmaz was extradited from Austria and arrived on Friday in Utah to face money laundering and wire fraud charges, the U.S. Justice Department s...
Jul 15, 2022
Biden vows to use all powers to fulfill global warming pledge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he would use every power he has as president to fulfill his pledge to fight global warming. The remarks, delivered during a visit to Saud...
Jul 15, 2022
U.S. State Department approves potential sale of HIMARS to Estonia – Pentagon
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of HIMARS rocket systems to Estonia in a deal valued at up to $500 million, the Pentagon said on Friday. ...
Jul 15, 2022
Georgia’s second-largest school district allows non-officers to carry guns
By Randi Love (Reuters) - Georgia's second-largest school district has approved a policy to allow personnel who are not certified police officers to carry guns, part of its response to the shooting at...
Jul 15, 2022
State: ‘Slow but steady’ increase in COVID-19 cases
CHICAGO, Ill. – The Illinois Department of Public Health is warning of what they call a “slow but steady increase” in COVID-19 cases. The state says a little more than 33,000 cases w...
Jul 15, 2022
Panel probing U.S. Capitol attack to hold July 21 prime-time hearing
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol announced on Friday that it will hold a hearing at 8 p.m. EDT on...
Jul 15, 2022
Biden steps in to help end freight rail carrier and union disputes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order creating an emergency board to help resolve disputes between major freight rail carriers and their unions, in a move...
Jul 15, 2022
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