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Weekend shopper numbers on UK high streets suffer Omicron hit
LONDON (Reuters) -Shopper numbers across Britain's high streets fell 2.6% over the Dec. 18-19 weekend versus the previous weekend as the highly contagious Omicron variant of coronavirus kept people aw...
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‘Licorice Pizza’ turns on the charm in quirky coming-of-age tale
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - There's no pizza and no licorice in director Paul Thomas Anderson's latest movie, but like a lot of the quirky characters and events in his coming-of-age story...
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Georgia governor’s race tests Trump’s stolen-election claims
By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - Since announcing his candidacy for the Georgia governorship earlier this month, Republican David Perdue has wasted no time in releasing ads that revive former President ...
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‘Titane’ director Ducournau flies flag for genre films, female voices
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Director and writer Julia Ducournau says France's decision to pick her movie "Titane" as its official contender in the Oscar race for best international feature fil...
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Closing arguments set for trial of ex-Minnesota cop who killed Daunte Wright
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - The jury is set to hear closing arguments on Monday in the manslaughter trial of Kimberly Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who killed Black motorist Daunte Wrigh...
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Moisture seen critical for wheat blasted by U.S. Plains dust storm
By Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hurricane-force winds that raked the U.S. Plains belt last week appeared to cause varying degrees of damage to a winter wheat crop that was already struggling wi...
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Closing arguments in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial to kick off
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Closing arguments in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial are set to kick off on Monday, before the jury begins to weigh whether the British socialite set up teenage girls for t...
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Analysis: Rising cases, Omicron highlight holes in Biden’s COVID strategy, experts say
By Jeff Mason (Reuters) - Amid a new surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, President Joe Biden is drawing criticism from health experts, who are calling for ...
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Dubai World Trade Centre to set up specialised crypto zone
DUBAI (Reuters) - The Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) will become a crypto zone and regulator for cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets, the Dubai Media Office said on Monday, part of efforts to a...
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Polish central bankers see hikes ahead, but split on scale
By Pawel Florkiewicz and Alan Charlish WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will likely see a 50-basis-point rate hike in January and that will not be the end of policy tightening, central banker Lukasz Hardt sa...
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