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New Zealand house price ‘madness’ to leave affordability stretched for years: Reuters poll
By Vivek Mishra BENGALURU (Reuters) - New Zealand's runaway housing market, which has accelerated rapidly during the pandemic, will cool next year, according to a Reuters poll of property market analy...
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‘Twilight’ investor sentenced to five years prison in fraud case
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A technology entrepreneur who invested in the studio behind the "Twilight" films was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after being convicted of fra...
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Lionel Messi launches ‘Messiverse’ NFT crypto art collection
By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi has launched his own collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), crypto art that was created with his image by digital designe...
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McDonald’s says nearly all its paper packaging from sustainable fiber
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp said on Thursday it has nearly achieved its goal of sourcing all of its paper food packaging in restaurants from recycled or sustainable fiber. The ...
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Local COVID-19 testing site to reopen
PEORIA, Ill. – One COVID-19 testing site will be back in operation. The Tazewell County Health Department, in a social media post, said the community-based COVID-19 testing site at the Peoria Ci...
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Adobe to buy Frame.io in $1.27 billion deal
(Reuters) -Adobe Inc said on Thursday it would buy Frame.io, a cloud-based video collaboration platform, in a $1.27 billion deal. Frame.io streamlines the video production process by enabling video ed...
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Britain’s Morrisons agrees to CD&R’s $9.54 billion takeover offer
LONDON (Reuters) - British supermarket group Morrisons on Thursday agreed a takeover offer worth 7.0 billion pounds ($9.54 billion) from U.S. private equity group Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), drop...
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NYPD orders police officers to get a jab or mask up while on duty
By Tyler Clifford and Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's 36,000 police officers now have a simple choice: either get vaccinated against coronavirus or wear masks at all times while ...
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U.S. bankruptcy judge approves Boy Scouts sex abuse settlement
(Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday won preliminary approval from a U.S. bankruptcy judge for an $850 million settlement to resolve tens of thousands of sexual abuse claims. (Reporting b...
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NASA temporarily halts work on lunar lander contract pending court case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA has agreed to temporarily halt work on a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk's SpaceX after Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin sued the U.S government, an agency ...
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