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Over 150 dogs join race to support Venezuelan shelters
CARACAS (Reuters) - More than 150 dogs wearing colorful scarves on their necks participated alongside their owners in a race through Venezuela's capital Caracas on Sunday morning, which was organized ...
Jul 30, 2023
‘Barbenheimer’ box office sales keep rolling in second weekend
By Nicholas P. Brown (Reuters) - Warner Bros' "Barbie" showed no signs of slowing down in its second weekend at the box office, and was set to haul in $93 million in ticket sales Friday through Sunday...
Jul 30, 2023
Nigeria’s Tinubu appoints investigator to probe central bank – letter
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has appointed a financial watchdog to investigate the central bank, weeks after he suspended its governor, a copy of a letter from the president showe...
Jul 30, 2023
A child was injured in a Sunday morning house fire in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. – A child was injured and a Central Peoria home suffered extensive damage following a late-morning fire Sunday. Peoria firefighters went to the home on Albany Avenue, near Finnell, ...
Jul 30, 2023
ECB’s Lagarde says latest growth data ‘encouraging’
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Latest data about economic output in France, Germany and Spain is "quite encouraging" and confirms the European Central Bank's expectations, ECB President Christine Lagarde said ...
Jul 30, 2023
Philippines need not match Fed’s 25 bps hike – finance minister
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' finance minister said monetary authorities have room to pause on rate hikes in August despite a recent policy tightening by the U.S. Federal Reserve. "I do not thin...
Jul 30, 2023
State: Extreme heat and alcohol are a bad combination
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Drinking and hot weather do not mix. That’s the warning from the Illinois Liquor Control Commission. Even though the weather in Peoria isn’t as hot for the next c...
Jul 30, 2023
UPDATE: An investigation continues into a church building collapse in South Peoria. Here’s what we know
UPDATED 12:34 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. – Members of a South Peoria church were still expected to come together to worship Sunday, despite only two walls of their building standing after a collapse Satu...
Jul 30, 2023
After quake, Syria’s northern coast ravaged by wildfires
By Firas Makdesi and Kinda Makieh MASHQUITA, Syria (Reuters) - At 72, Syrian farmer Izzadin Zuhaira has survived war, displacement and a devastating earthquake in February. But the forest fires razing...
Jul 30, 2023
Exclusive-Banks vote to limit accounting of emissions in bond and stock sales -sources
By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) - Banks working to develop global standards on accounting for carbon emissions in bond or stock sale underwriting have voted to exclude most of these emissions from th...
Jul 30, 2023
Peoria, IL, USA
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