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Peoria shooting leaves man seriously injured
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police were called around 7:20 p.m. Monday to the area of Charlton Street and McBean on reports of a shooting. When they arrived, officers found an adult male victim with g...
Julia Bradley Aug 31, 2021
Australian state rejects POSCO’s bid to build new coal mine, rail line
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - New South Wales's planning regulator on Tuesday rejected a plan by a unit of South Korea's POSCO to develop a coking coal mine and rail line in the Australian state, saying that ...
Syndicated Content Aug 31, 2021
Euro zone inflation surges to 10-year high, in big headache for ECB
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation surged to a 10-year-high this month with further rises still likely to come, challenging the European Central Bank's benign view on price growth and its commi...
Syndicated Content Aug 31, 2021
China’s market regulator proposes amendments to e-commerce law
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's market regulator proposed amendments to the country's e-commerce law, saying that licences can be revoked if the platforms fail to take necessary measures against vendors w...
Syndicated Content Aug 31, 2021
Hong Kong July retail sales rise 2.9% as pandemic threat eases
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong retail sales rose 2.9% in July from a year earlier, the sixth consecutive month of growth, as demand benefited from a stabilising of COVID-19 and an improved labour mar...
Syndicated Content Aug 31, 2021
UK households rein in borrowing in July, repay mortgages
LONDON (Reuters) -British consumers curbed their borrowing in July when the country was hit by a rise in COVID-19 cases which triggered tough self-isolation rules, and homeowners made a rare net repay...
Syndicated Content Aug 31, 2021
Hong Kong’s strict quarantine rules threaten to erode allure of financial hub
(Refiles to fix headline grammar, no change to text) By Farah Master and Scott Murdoch HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong's government is facing growing pressure from business lobby groups to open borders...
Syndicated Content Aug 31, 2021
Explainer-Why and how China is drastically limiting online gaming for under 18s
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Monday introduced new rules that limit the amount of time under-18s can spend on video games to three hours a week, a move it said was necessary to combat gaming addiction...
Syndicated Content Aug 31, 2021
S.Korea’s Kakao Pay cuts IPO target by 6% to $1.3 billion
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean fintech company Kakao Pay Corp cut its planned initial public offering (IPO) target to up to 1.5 trillion won ($1.29 billion) from a previously announced 1.6 trillion won...
Syndicated Content Aug 31, 2021
China shuts American Chamber of Commerce in Chengdu, organisation says
By Andrew Galbraith and Gabriel Crossley SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese authorities have instructed an American Chamber of Commerce in the southwestern city of Chengdu to cease operations, officials with...
Syndicated Content Aug 31, 2021
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