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Sales of foreign-branded phones in China down 31.3% in June, data shows
BEIJING (Reuters) -Sales of foreign-branded phones, including Apple Inc's iPhone, declined 31.3% year-on-year in China in June, according to Reuters' calculations based on data released on Wednesday b...
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Serbian scientists experiment with mealworms to degrade polystyrene
BELGRADE (Reuters) -Serbian scientists have been experimenting with mealworms as a way to break down polystyrene. Larisa Ilijin, a principal research fellow at Belgrade's Institute for Biology, said t...
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Baidu quarterly revenue falls as weak ads offset cloud growth
(Reuters) -Chinese search engine giant Baidu on Wednesday reported a drop in second quarter revenue as its core advertising business struggled amid China's economic slowdown, offsetting strong growth ...
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Member of Irish rap group Kneecap appears at UK court on terrorism charge
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Hundreds of fans welcomed a member of Irish rap group Kneecap as he arrived at a London court on Wednesday seeking to throw out a terrorism charge for allegedly displayi...
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UK house prices rise 3.7% year-on-year in June
LONDON (Reuters) -British house prices in June were 3.7% higher than a year earlier, up from an annual increase of 2.7% in May, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday. House price inflat...
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BOJ governor Ueda to travel to Jackson Hole for Fed conference
TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will travel to Jackson Hole from Thursday to join the U.S. Fed's annual conference in Wyoming, the Japanese central bank said on Wednesday. (Reportin...
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Pakistan's Karachi hit by torrential rain and floods
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan declared a public holiday in Karachi on Wednesday as the financial capital braced for more rain, after the arrival of the annual monsoon season left at least 7 pe...
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South Africa's consumer inflation rises in July as expected
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa's headline consumer inflation rose to 3.5% year-on-year in July from 3.0% in June, in line with economists' expectations. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast...
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Nordic postal operators pause shipments to US as Trump ends parcel tariff relief
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Norwegian and Swedish-Danish postal groups Posten Bring and PostNord are pausing parcel shipments to the United States ahead of the scrapping of a U.S. customs tax loophole that a...
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Trafigura-led consortium aims to finalise US loan deal by end-2025
By Nelson Banya (Reuters) -Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) aims to finalise by the end of this year a $533 million loan deal with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) that is vit...
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