NAIROBI (Reuters) – Rwanda and international development banks plan to raise an extra 300 million euros ($328.86 million) to help the country adapt to a changing climate, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday. In April, the IMF said it had allowed for a disbursement of $98.6 million of an initial $319 million. It …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase has been fined $4 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after about 47 million emails belonging to its retail banking group were mistakenly and permanently deleted. The emails dated from Jan. 1 to April 23, 2018, and were deleted in June 2019 from about 8,700 …
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s top electoral court on Thursday decided to adjourn a trial that could leave former President Jair Bolsonaro in the political wilderness for nearly a decade, with the session set to be resumed on Tuesday of next week. Bolsonaro, a far-right nationalist who in October narrowly lost Brazil’s most fraught election in …
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SAO PAULO, 22 jun (Reuters) – El productor brasileño de azúcar y etanol Jalles Machado SA dijo que invertirá 170 millones de reales (35,6 millones de dólares) en la construcción de una nueva planta azucarera en el estado de Minas Gerais, adyacente a la planta de etanol de Santa Vitoria. El anuncio, realizado a última …
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African rand fell about 1% on Thursday against a stronger U.S. dollar as a spate of interest rate hikes by several central banks fuelled worries about global growth. At 1528 GMT, the rand traded at 18.5000 against the dollar, about 1% weaker than its previous close. The safe-haven dollar last traded …
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Berlin (Reuters) – Angesichts der angekündigten Urabstimmung der Gewerkschaft EVG bei der Deutschen Bahn warnt Bundesverkehrsminister Volker Wissing (FDP) vor einem Streik in der Urlaubszeit. “Viele Menschen haben sich diese Sommerferien ganz bewusst für das klimafreundliche Reisen mit der Bahn entschieden”, sagte Wissing der “Bild”-Zeitung laut Vorabbericht vom Donnerstag. “Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Entwicklungen …
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By Elizabeth Pineau and John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – Senegal struck a deal with wealthier countries on Thursday that will see it get an initial 2.5 billion euros ($2.74 billion) in finance to develop renewable energy and speed up its transition to a low-carbon economy. The Senegal Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), backed by France, …
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ROME (Reuters) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected on Thursday a number of appeals by Italian same-sex and heterosexual couples who challenged national restrictions against the recognition of children born abroad through surrogacy. Surrogacy is banned in Italy, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government has targeted gay men who use it …
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LONDON (Reuters) – German-owned discount supermarket Lidl can have an injunction to stop rival Tesco copying its logo, London’s High Court has ruled, despite hearing it will cost Tesco nearly 8 million pounds ($10.2 million) to remove them all. Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco in April lost a trademark lawsuit brought by Lidl after Tesco adopted …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A senior executive at German media giant Axel Springer on Thursday said artificial intelligence would free journalists to devote more time to core reporting, days after an internal email warned the technology would lead to significant job losses. “For newsrooms, AI opens up new paths and freedoms. Journalists can outsource tedious work …
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