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‘Star Trek’ actor Shatner poised for Blue Origin space jaunt
By Mike Blake VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) - Billionaire U.S. businessman Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is set for its second suborbital tourism flight on Wednesday, with actor William Shatner - who e...
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Matt Goss hopes new album will take him from Vegas to world tour
By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Lockdown provided singer Matt Goss the break from live performance that his body needed and the chance to write an album, which he hopes will take him back on a world...
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Campaign finance trial against ex-Giuliani associate Parnas kicks off
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) - Opening arguments are set to begin on Wednesday in the trial of Lev Parnas, a onetime associate of Donald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, on a charge of violating campaig...
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Flying taxis to take to the sky in mid-2020s, says UK’s Vertical Aerospace
By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - Fed up with traffic jams? Imagine a world where your taxi takes to the skies and lands on top of your office building, recharges and sets off afresh. That's the visio...
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Texas vaccine mandate ban likely to be trumped by federal law but could cause uncertainty
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott's ban on COVID-19 vaccine mandates will likely be superseded by the Biden administration plan to require shots for workers, but the dueling rules cou...
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U.S. Supreme Court weighs Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence
By Lawrence Hurley and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hear the federal government's bid to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death...
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As Evergrande default looms, what legal options do offshore creditors have?
By Karin Strohecker and Scott Murdoch LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - With China Evergrande Group's default deadline drawing closer, offshore bond investors in the property developer are pondering their ...
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Binance to halt Chinese yuan trading amid Beijing’s crypto crackdown
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Binance will stop the use of the Chinese yuan on its peer-to-peer trading platform, the latest move by major global cryptocurrency exchanges to cut their ties with mainland Chines...
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Deutsche Bank CEO calls on ECB to rethink policy in light of inflation
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank's chief executive Christian Sewing on Wednesday called on the European Central Bank to rethink its ultra-loose monetary policy in light of new inflation risks. Poli...
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China’s Guangdong housing regulator warns consumers for property purchases
BEIJING (Reuters) - The local housing regulator in China's southern Guangdong province warned consumers over property purchases on Wednesday as China Evergrande Group missed its third round of bond pa...
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