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Analysis-Xi’s next premier faces tough task reviving Chinese economy
By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - China's next premier, who will take office in March, will have few options but to step up stimulus to revive an economy ravaged by COVID-19, policy insiders and analys...
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Atlantia’s big investors tender shares in Benetton, Blackstone bid – sources
MILAN (Reuters) - Atlantia's long-term investors, Singapore sovereign fund GIC and Italian banking foundation CRT, have tendered their shares in the takeover offer launched by the Benettons and U.S. i...
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Russia seen holding benchmark interest rate at 7.5% this week – Reuters poll
By Elena Fabrichnaya and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian central bank is expected to hold its key interest rate at 7.5% on Friday, ending a months'-long rate-cutting cycle, as an infla...
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Jailed U.S. basketball star Griner “not expecting miracles” at Russian appeal
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner "does not expect miracles" at her appeal hearing on Tuesday against a nine-year Russian jail term for having cannabis oil in her luggage, her la...
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Canada Sept factory sales most likely fell 0.5% – Statscan flash estimate
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian factory sales most likely fell 0.5% in September from August, largely driven by decreases in the transportation equipment and petroleum and coal product industries, Statist...
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Toyota to produce BYD battery electric car in China
BEIJING (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp on Monday announced the launch of a small electric sedan, which will be powered by BYD Co batteries and will be produced and sold in China. The Japanese automaker...
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Local marching bands win top honors
PEORIA, Ill. — Two local high school bands were top winners over the weekend. The Morton High School Marching Band was crowned Grand Champion at the Illinois State Marching Band competition on S...
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Parkour athletes switch off Paris lights one by one
By Manuel Ausloos PARIS (Reuters) - Hadj Benhalima sized up the building in front of him then took a run at the wall, pushed off its surface with one foot, twisted around in mid-air and reached out to...
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Paddle your own pumpkin: racers descend on Belgian pond
By Charlotte Van Campenhout KASTERLEE, Belgium (Reuters) - Hundreds of competitors, many dressed up as pirates, nuns, animals or vegetables, climbed into carved-out pumpkins and paddled them around a ...
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Former Tinkoff execs raise $16 million for fintech start-up
LONDON (Reuters) - Three former executives at Russian online bank Tinkoff have raised $16 million to launch a fintech start-up focused on Southeast Asia and initially targeting the Philippines, they s...
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