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Soviet chess legend sues Netflix for ‘sexist’ line in Queen’s Gambit show
TBILISI (Reuters) - The world's first female chess grandmaster, Nona Gaprindashvili, has filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against Netflix over a line in its "The Queen's Gambit" series which her ...
Sep 17, 2021
Bad for business: World Bank China rigging scandal rattles investors
By Tom Arnold and Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Economists at investment funds expressed dismay on Friday at revelations that World Bank leaders put "undue pressure" on staff to boost China's ranking ...
Sep 17, 2021
EasyJet shareholder Stelios Haji-Ioannou shuns rights issue -source
LONDON (Reuters) - EasyJet's biggest shareholder, the family of founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has decided not to participate in the British airline's 1.2 billion pound rights issue and has sold its ri...
Sep 17, 2021
Sotheby’s to auction rare first printing of U.S. Constitution
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - An extremely rare official first-edition printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, as adopted by America's founding fathers at a convention in Philadelphia in 1787, will be pu...
Sep 17, 2021
HBO Max slashes prices in limited offer as streaming wars heat up
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc's HBO Max streaming service has halved its subscription fees in a limited-period offer to lure back millions of subscribers it lost after dropping out of Amazon.com Inc's Prime vi...
Sep 17, 2021
Mining firms in Mexico must face ‘strict’ scrutiny, says senior official
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mining companies in Mexico should expect tough environmental reviews given their projects' major impacts, a senior official told Reuters, insisting that a...
Sep 17, 2021
Police respond to crash involving school bus
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police closed east bound Charter Oak Road at Orange Prairie around 7:20 a.m. Friday due to an accident. Thomas Bruch, Director of Public Relations and Community Engagement ...
Sep 17, 2021
Catwalk shows return at hybrid London Fashion Week
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) - A hybrid London Fashion Week kicked off on Friday, with a mix of digital presentations and the event's first in-person shows in a year. International press...
Sep 17, 2021
Washington man sentenced to 37 years for 2019 murder
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. — 53-year-old Daniel Allbritton was sentenced to 37 years in prison on Thursday. The Washington man plead guilty on Aug. 5 to first-degree murder in the 2019 death of John ...
Sep 17, 2021
U.S. COVID-19 booster debate moves to FDA vaccine advisory committee
(Reuters) – The debate over whether Americans should receive a booster dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine moves to a panel of independent expert advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Admi...
Sep 17, 2021
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