By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> launched a cash payment service in Mexico on Tuesday, aiming to expand its customer base in a country where shoppers are wary of credit card fraud and often earn their living in paper currency. The strategy could also help it to win market share […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – AT&T Inc’s quarterly results missed Wall Street estimates as the U.S. No. 2 wireless carrier lost video subscribers to traditional and online TV competitors and fewer of its existing customers upgraded their devices ahead of Apple Inc’s launch of the iPhone X. The battle for the growing market in providing video […]
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Sierra Club, Greenpeace USA and Public Citizen and other environmental and consumer advocacy groups plan to turn up the pressure on Wednesday in their campaign to stop automakers from lobbying the Trump administration to weaken fuel efficiency requirements. The groups wrote last month to auto executives at Ford […]
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It is not the taming of the shrew, but rather the shrinking of the shrew. Scientists this week described one of nature’s most intriguing phenomena, the shrinkage of the skull and body of a type of shrew as lean winter months approach and the subsequent regrowth of the critters […]
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By Gus Trompiz PARIS (Reuters) – France is running short of butter, with some supermarket shelves sitting empty and the price of croissants on the rise, creating a headache for the government just as it tries to make the food chain fairer for farmers. The shortage is the result of falling milk production and rising […]
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By Pavel Polityuk and Jack Stubbs KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Cyber attacks using malware called “BadRabbit” hit Russia and other nations on Tuesday, affecting Russian Interfax news agency and causing flight delays at Ukraine’s Odessa airport. While no major outages were reported, the U.S. government issued a warning on the attack, which followed campaigns in May […]
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STRASBOURG (Reuters) – The European Parliament called on Tuesday for weedkiller glyphosate to be phased out in the next five years, prompting the European Commission to drop its proposal for a 10 year license extension. Europe has been debating the use of the herbicide for more than two years and Tuesday’s non-binding vote comes a […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – British travelers could face higher train fares and disruption to services if controversial weedkiller glyphosate is banned, a study said on Tuesday, in a move that could cost the rail industry millions of pounds each year. The European Parliament called for the weedkiller to be phased out in the next five years […]
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(Reuters) – U.S. drugmaker AbbVie is betting on the potential of the body’s immune system to fight Alzheimer’s by signing a drug development deal worth more than $200 million with unlisted biotech company Alector. AbbVie said on Tuesday it was paying $205 million upfront and could make a further $20 million equity investment to work […]
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By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Facebook was dealt a setback on Tuesday when an adviser to the top European Union court said any data protection authority in the bloc had the power to take action against it for breaching privacy laws. Facebook has its European headquarters in Ireland and has argued that only the […]
Read More WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia’s government on Tuesday rejected accusations by the coordinator of the UN Panel of Experts on North Korea who accused the southern African nation of not complying with UN Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang. Namibia said that it rejected allegations that it had not submitted a report for more than a year […]
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By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Robert Mugabe would have rejected the role of World Health Organization goodwill envoy had he been formally asked, his spokesman said on Tuesday, days after state media cheered the Zimbabwean president’s appointment. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus named Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador on Wednesday at a conference in […]
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