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Europe at war: Six charts to know in financial markets
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's escalating war in Ukraine has sent commodity and energy prices soaring, boosted safe havens and hammered Europe's common currency and its stock markets. Below are six chart...
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Farmington restaurant destroyed by fire relocating to Pekin
FARMINGTON, Ill. – A Farmington restaurant that lost its home after a recent fire will soon officially. Asher’s Bar and Grille was destroyed by fire around Thanksgiving of last year —...
Will Stevenson Mar 05, 2022

Fulton County man hospitalized after grain auger accident
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. – A Fulton County man is hospitalized after an on-farm accident Friday. 25 News reports a 60-year-old Cuba man’s leg became trapped in a grain auger. He was taken by he...
Will Stevenson Mar 05, 2022

Pritzker revises COVID-19-related executive order
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – It’s back to normal for Illinois schools in terms of infectious diseases. Governor JB Pritzker signed an updated Executive Order Friday, after the state says they’...
Will Stevenson Mar 05, 2022
Vanguard will not restrict its active managers’ decisions on Russia
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) - Top mutual fund manager Vanguard Group said on Friday it will adhere to international sanctions being imposed on Russia in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, but will...
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Climate change, COVID loom over Alaska’s 50th annual Iditarod Sled Dog Race
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Forty-nine mushers and their teams of huskies were due to depart Alaska's largest city on Saturday for the 50th annual running of the Iditarod Trail Sled ...
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Zara owner Inditex halts trading in Russia, closing stores and online platform
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish fashion retailer Inditex has halted trading in Russia, closing its 502 shops and stopping online sales, the company said in a statement on Saturday to the Spanish regulator....
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PayPal shuts down its services in Russia citing Ukraine aggression
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Payments company PayPal Holdings Inc shut down its services early on Saturday in Russia, citing "the current circumstances," joining many financial and tech companies in sus...
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With fast-weakening rouble and fears for future, Russians rush to shop
(Reuters) - In bright sunshine, a long queue of shoppers snaked outside an IKEA store near Moscow this week. Similar scenes were repeated across Russia as families rushed to spend their fast-depreciat...
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SpaceX’s Musk says Starlink has been told by some governments to block Russian news
(Reuters) - SpaceX chief Elon Musk said on Saturday that its Starlink satellite broadband service has been told by some governments, not Ukraine, to block Russian news sources. "We will not do so unle...
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