(Reuters) – Nicaragua is set to join the Paris climate agreement, according to an official statement and comments from Vice President Rosario Murillo on Monday, in a move that leaves the United States and Syria as the only nations outside the global pact. Nicaragua has already presented the relevant documents at the United Nations, Murillo, […]
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People with fewer assets like real estate, savings, stocks and retirement accounts may be more likely to develop disabilities or die prematurely than wealthier individuals, a new study suggests. While plenty of previous research has documented health problems associated with poverty, the current study looked beyond just income to […]
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By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore-headquartered solar panel maker REC hopes to be exempt from potential U.S. restrictions on imports following a recent trade finding that said no significant injury to the United States had been caused by makers including those from Australia, Canada and Singapore. U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce […]
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Pop star Pink soared to the top of the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Monday with one of the year’s biggest album sales debut, beating out new albums from rapper Gucci Mane and rocker Beck. “Beautiful Trauma,” Pink’s seventh studio album, sold 408,000 album units in its first week. This […]
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(The Oct 16 story corrects reference to splitting the cost of the program in paragraph 2. Rabobank and the U.N. are finalizing plans for funding, the bank said) By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) – Rabobank NA is launching with the United Nations $1 billion in financing for farmers to transition to more sustainable practices […]
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has ordered a new trial to determine how much Samsung Electronics Co <005930.KS> should pay Apple Inc <AAPL.O> for copying the look of the iPhone. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California issued her order late on Sunday, 10 months after the U.S. Supreme Court […]
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By David Henry NEW YORK (Reuters) – In its first offering of online bank accounts, JPMorgan Chase & Co on Monday launched a new smartphone app that it hopes will attract new depositors, many of whom are young and may live far from any of its branch offices. The app, named Finn by Chase, allows […]
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(Reuters) – Bank of America Corp <BAC.N> will start using an additional layer of authentication for its online banking services, the Wall Street bank said on Monday, amid a wave of high-profile data breaches at several big U.S. companies. BofA said it would incorporate Intel Corp’s <INTC.O> Online Connect technology, that enables fingerprint touch payments, […]
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By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) – Twelve major cities including London, Paris, Los Angeles and Cape Town promised on Monday to buy only zero-emissions buses from 2025 and to make major areas free of fossil fuel emissions by 2030 to protect the environment. The 12, with a combined population of almost 80 million, said they […]
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(The Oct. 20 story corrects dateline and first sentence to reflect that Tangier Island is in Virginia, not Maryland) By Emily Flitter TANGIER ISLAND, Va. (Reuters) – This summer, a delegation of Republican climate activists visited Tangier Island, a speck of grassland in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay, to try to convince its 450 residents to take […]
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RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who owns investment firm Kingdom Holding, said in an interview with CNBC on Monday that he was optimistic about his investment in Twitter. “It’s not going to be easy because they face some difficulties, but our entry point was very reasonable, so right now it’s holding on […]
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By Jess Macy Yu TAIPEI (Reuters) – Apple Inc <AAPL.O> sees its mobile devices as a major platform for artificial intelligence in the future, Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams said on Monday. Later this week, Apple is set to begin taking pre-orders for its new smartphone, the iPhone X – which starts at $999 and […]
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