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China financial regulators urges Ant Group to set ‘rectification’ plan swiftly

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's financial regulators urged Ant Group on Sunday to outline a concrete plan as soon as possible to meet regulatory demands and fully understand the seriousness of the "rectification" work it needs to perform. The central bank, banking, securities and foreign exchange regulators urged Ant to rectify illegal financial activities, including in its credit, insurance and wealth management businesses, and...

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‘The beginning of the end’: Europe rolls out vaccines to see off pandemic

By Isla Binnie and Giselda Vagnoni MADRID/ROME (Reuters) - Europe launched a massive vaccination drive on Sunday with pensioners and medics lining up to take the first shots to see off the COVID-19 pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives worldwide. "Thank God," 96-year-old Araceli Hidalgo said as she became the first person in Spain to...

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Dubai ruler approves $15.5 billion budget for 2021 as economic recovery seen

DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai, the business and financial hub of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has approved a 57.1 billion dirham ($15.55 billion) budget for 2021, when the economy is expected to recover from a contraction this year, its ruler said on Sunday. The statement did not give a comparison to actual spending in 2020, but the size of the 2021 budget...

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China’s industrial profits grow robustly, 7th straight rise

BEIJING (Reuters) -Profits at China's industrial firms grew robustly in November for a seventh month of gains, supported by strong industrial production and sales, as manufacturers continue their recovery from the COVID-19 downturn. Profits at Chinese industrial firms rose 15.5% from a year earlier to 729.32 billion yuan ($111.50 billion), easing from October's three-year high 28.2%, data from National Bureau of Statistics...

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Europe rolls out vaccines in bid to leave pandemic behind

(Reuters) - Europe launches a cross-border vaccination programme of unprecedented scale on Sunday as part of efforts to end a COVID-19 pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives around the world. The region of 450 million people has secured contracts with a range of suppliers for over two billion vaccine doses and has set a goal for...

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U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden’s wife shares photos of their new son

MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden's wife has given birth to a son, photographs posted on her social media page on Saturday showed. "Happy Holidays from our newly expanded family," Lindsay Mills wrote, sharing photographs on Instagram of the couple holding the newborn. Snowden, 37, who fled the United States after leaking secret National Security Agency files in 2013 and was...

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Erdogan says Turkey will break economic ‘triangle of evil’ with reforms

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will bring in structural reforms to break the "triangle of evil" of interest rates, inflation and exchange rates, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, adding Ankara was determined to form a system based on production and employment. Erdogan promised a slate of judicial and economic reforms last month, leading to expectations of the possible release of politicians, including...

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George Blake, last in line of Cold War spies who betrayed Britain, dies at 98

By Timothy Heritage and Polina Ivanova LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - George Blake, who died in Russia on Saturday at the age of 98, was the last in a line of British spies whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliated the intelligence establishment when it was discovered at the height of the Cold War. Britain says he exposed the identities of hundreds of...

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Millions of Americans lose jobless benefits as Trump refuses to sign aid bill

By Steve Holland and Richard Cowan PALM BEACH, Fla/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Millions of Americans saw their jobless benefits expire on Saturday after U.S. President Donald Trump refused to sign into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, protesting that it did not do enough to help everyday people. Trump stunned Republicans and Democrats alike when he said this week he...

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Air Canada Boeing 737-8 MAX suffers engine issue

(Reuters) - An Air Canada Boeing (NYSE:BA) Co 737-8 Max en route between Arizona and Montreal with three crew members on board suffered an engine issue that forced the crew to divert the aircraft to Tucson, Arizona, the Canadian airline company said in an emailed statement on Friday. Shortly after the take-off, the pilots received an "engine indication" and "decided to...

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