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Global shares hit three-month highs on economic recovery hopes
LONDON (Reuters) – World shares hit three-month highs on Wednesday and the dollar fell for the sixth day running as easing lockdowns and hopes for more monetary stimulus gave investors confidence,...
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Controversial Republican congressman Steve King ousted in Iowa primary
(Reuters) – Firebrand U.S. congressman Steve King, who was called out by his colleagues last year for using hateful rhetoric, lost his bid for reelection on Tuesday as a Republican rival defeated him...
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Sporadic violence flares in latest U.S. protests over Floyd death
WASHINGTON/MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people defied curfews to take to the streets of U.S. cities on Tuesday for an eighth night of protests over the death of a black man in police...
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Pope urges U.S reconciliation, condemns racism and street violence
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis called for national reconciliation in the United States on Wednesday, saying that while racism is intolerable, the street violence that has broken out is...
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Early Facebook staffers denounce Zuckerberg stance on Trump posts
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Nearly three dozen former employees from Facebook’s early days on Wednesday blasted Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to act against incendiary posts by U.S....
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Republicans blast FBI Russia probe as Rosenstein defends Mueller
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican allies of President Donald Trump attacked the FBI’s probe of his 2016 presidential campaign on Wednesday, but failed to get a key witness to agree that former U.S....
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After long silence, Mattis denounces Trump and military response to crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After long refusing to explicitly criticize a sitting president, former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused President Donald Trump on Wednesday of trying to divide America and...
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New charges in Floyd may give prosecutors clearer path to conviction
(Reuters) – Prosecutors seeking to put a former Minneapolis police officer in prison for the death of George Floyd bolstered allegations on the use of force but stopped short of calling the killing...
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Police face new charges in Floyd killing, Mattis angry at Trump
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – U.S. protests over the death of a black man in custody dwindled overnight into early Thursday after prosecutors leveled new charges against four Minneapolis policemen...
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ECB sends euro higher, stocks struggle with fatigue
LONDON (Reuters) – World markets swung between hope and caution on Thursday as a another shot of European Central Bank stimulus was offset by still-troublesome U.S. data and general fatigue after a...
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‘Violence provokes violence’, Mandela Foundation says in support of U.S....
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Foundation said on Thursday violence can be a rational response to racism and for some communities is the only way to elicit change, as protests...
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U.S. jobless claims dip below 2 million, road to recovery rocky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dropped below 2 million last week for the first time since mid-March, but remains astonishingly high as companies adjust...
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Goldman Sachs executive’s email making plea for racial equality goes viral at...
(Reuters) – An email by a Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) employee about his experiences of racial injustice and criticizing managers at the Wall Street bank for not supporting junior bankers from...
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Pompeo calls Nasdaq’s strict rules a model to guard against fraudulent...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned American investors against fraudulent accounting practices at China-based companies and said the Nasdaq’s recent decision...
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Asia’s stock rally pause ahead of U.S. jobs data, euro at one-and-a-half...
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian stocks were poised for their biggest weekly rise in over eight years while the euro hovered near a 1-1/2 month high as Europe’s central bank surprised with more stimulus,...
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Video shows police in Buffalo, New York, shoving man to ground
(Reuters) – As protests over the police killing of George Floyd continued into their tenth night on Thursday, a video shows police in Buffalo, New York, in riot gear shoving a white-haired man to the...
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Factbox: Where are people around the world protesting over George Floyd?
(Reuters) – The death of African American George Floyd in the United States, after a police officer pressed a knee into his neck while detaining him, has triggered worldwide protests against racism...
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Equities surge, bonds tumble on surprise U.S. jobs gains
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An unexpected jump in U.S. employment sent world equities surging on hopes that the global economy has started to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, pulling investors out of...
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Trump says jobs data shows ‘greatest comeback in American history’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday celebrated a stunning U.S. employment report that showed more than 2.5 million jobs were added last month during the thick of the coronavirus...
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Ocean shipping shrinks as pandemic pummels retailers
LONDON/LOS ANGELES/MADRID (Reuters) – The $1 trillion container shipping industry is in a slowdown. Literally. Some shipping lines, whose retail customers are being hammered by the coronavirus...
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