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Australia’s Wesfarmers flags lower first-half profit hurt by coronavirus curbs
(Reuters) - Australian retail conglomerate Wesfarmers Ltd on Monday said it expects to report first-half net profit after tax between A$1.18 billion ($851.72 million) and A$1.24 billion, a drop from l...
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BBVA to pay more than 7 billion euros to shareholders in 2021, 2022, chairman says
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's BBVA expects to distribute more than 7 billion euros ($8 billion) to shareholders in 2021 and 2022, around a fifth of its current market capitalization, chairman Carlos Torr...
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Ahead of election, Macron banks on rosy French economy, new jobs
PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron will on Monday tout 21 new foreign investment projects in France and a booming economy as proof his economic reforms have been bearing fruit less than three...
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Impact assessment, aid efforts underway as world responds to Tonga tsunami
By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Pacific nations and aid agencies began coordinating relief efforts in Tonga on Monday after a tsunami triggered by a massive volcanic eruption rocked the tiny i...
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Pioneering Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Retired Brigadier General Charles McGee, part of the pioneering all-Black Tuskegee Airmen during World War Two and one of its most decorated pilots, died on Sunday at the...
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Unilever to weigh raising offer for Glaxo Consumer unit – Bloomberg
(Reuters) - Unilever Plc has held talks with banks about additional financing for a potential sweetened offer for GlaxoSmithKline Plc's consumer products division, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing...
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Airlines cancel over 2,700 U.S. flights as winter storm hits U.S. East Coast
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Airlines canceled over 2,700 U.S. flights on Sunday as a winter storm combining high winds and ice was poised to hit the U.S. East Coast over the holiday weekend. The fli...
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Biden calls Texas synagogue hostage situation ‘act of terror’
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said that a gunman who disrupted a religious service in a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday and took four people hostage had engaged in an "act of terro...
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Biden to continue push for voting rights bill as he honors King’s legacy
By Andrea Shalal PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to Philadelphia on Sunday to honor the legacy of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., as he continues to press ...
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Israel increases state aid plan for COVID-hit airlines
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's cabinet approved additional state aid on Sunday to help bail out airlines suffering another pandemic blow with the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, the finance...
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