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Chevron begins COVID-19 vaccination mandates – WSJ
(Reuters) - Oil major Chevron Corp has begun requiring some employees to receive COVID-19 vaccinations and is evaluating mandates throughout its entire workforce, the Wall Street Journal reported on M...
Aug 23, 2021
Volvo Cars to idle Gothenburg plant again over chip shortage
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Volvo Cars, owned by China's Geely Holding, will halt production at its Swedish plant in Torslanda, on the outskirts of Gothenburg, during next week due to the shortage of semico...
Aug 23, 2021
Branson’s Virgin Orbit to go public through $3.2 billion SPAC merger
(Reuters) -Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit is going public through a merger with a blank-check vehicle in a deal that values it at $3.2 billion and includes an investment from Boeing Co, it...
Aug 23, 2021
Adelaide to Hollywood via Edinburgh in a day: Fringe theatre goes global
By Barbara Lewis and Sarah Mills (Reuters) - A new digital theatre platform developed to keep audiences engaged during lockdown is being used by performers to take their shows to festivals far from ho...
Aug 23, 2021
Fed chief Powell’s record ‘mixed,’ think tank says
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) - A think tank highly critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's record on banking regulation released an assessment of his four-year tenure on Monday that is by turns s...
Aug 23, 2021
AB Volvo buys Chinese vehicles business for about $125.7 million
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -AB Volvo said on Monday it had struck a deal to buy Chinese JMC Heavy Duty Vehicle Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Jiangling Motors Co. Ltd, for about 1.1 billion Swedish crowns ($125.7...
Aug 23, 2021
U.S. House Democrats face test of unity on Biden spending plans
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats face a test of unity in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday as they begin work on two ambitious spending plans that would devote trillions of...
Aug 23, 2021
Pfizer to buy cancer drug developer Trillium in $2.3 billion deal
(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc said on Monday it would buy Canadian drug developer Trillium Therapeutics Inc in a $2.26 billion deal to strengthen its arsenal of blood cancer therapies. Pfizer, which acquired ...
Aug 23, 2021
Ethiopia to build local rival to Facebook, other platforms
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communicatio...
Aug 23, 2021
Finland’s Nokia wins 5G order for three European markets
(Reuters) - Finnish telecom gear maker Nokia said on Monday it had won a 5G network order from A1 Telekom Austria Group for operations in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Slovenia. "The multi-country single vend...
Aug 23, 2021
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