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One person seriously injured in East Bluff house fire
UPDATE – PEORIA, Ill. -Four people escaped a Peoria house fire, but one of them was injured seriously. Firefighters arrived at 1900 N. Dechman Ave. at 9:39 a.m. Sunday to see fire coming from a ...
Dec 26, 2021
UAE plans to scrap import monopolies of some big merchant families – FT
(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates government has told some of its biggest business families that it plans to remove their monopolies on the sale of imported goods, the Financial Times reported on S...
Dec 26, 2021
U.S. Rep. Jayapal asks Biden to continue focus on ‘Build Back Better’, urges executive action
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, a leading liberal House Democrat, has asked President Joe Biden to continue focusing on his social spending legislation and urged him...
Dec 26, 2021
U.S. holiday retail sales rise 8.5% as online shopping booms, Mastercard says
(Reuters) - U.S. retail sales rose 8.5% during this year's holiday shopping season from Nov. 1 to Dec 24, a report by Mastercard Inc said on Sunday, powered by a rush to stores amid supply chain conce...
Dec 26, 2021
China Evergrande reports progress in resuming home deliveries
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China Evergrande Group said on Sunday it had made initial progress in resuming construction work with its chairman vowing to deliver 39,000 units of properties in December, compar...
Dec 26, 2021
Omicron grounds hundreds more U.S. flights over Christmas weekend
By Humeyra Pamuk and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airlines called off hundreds of flights for a third day in a row on Sunday as surging COVID-19 infections due to the highly transmissibl...
Dec 26, 2021
One person treated after Christmas morning fire
PEORIA, Ill. – Fire in an apartment sent one person to a local hospital Christmas morning. Firefighters found smoke coming from the first and second floors of an apartment house at 2730 W. Trewy...
Dec 26, 2021
World economy to top $100 trillion in 2022 for first time: report
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's economic output will exceed $100 trillion for the first time next year and it will take China a little longer than previously thought to overtake the United States as th...
Dec 25, 2021
Japan to pay companies to keep sensitive patents secret- Nikkei
(Reuters) - Japan will compensate companies to keep secret patents with potential military applications under proposed legislation, the Nikkei reported on Sunday, without citing sources. The patents u...
Dec 25, 2021
U.S. airlines scrap hundreds of Christmas Day flights due to Omicron
By Humeyra Pamuk and Joel Schectman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airlines canceled close to 900 flights on Saturday, the second straight day of massive cancellations as surging COVID-19 infections have...
Dec 25, 2021
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