By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Marc Matsil retired to Connecticut’s bucolic northwest hills two years ago, fly fishing and hiking filled his days. Today, he fills classrooms instead with his knowledge of climate science, chemistry and biology, passing on his love of nature to high school kids. The change makes sense given …
By Helen Reid STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – H&M reported a pick-up in quarterly profit margins on Wednesday, boosting optimism about its turnaround efforts even as the fashion retailer blamed unusually hot weather in many of its European markets for delaying the autumn shopping season. H&M, whose biggest rival is Zara owner Inditex, said September sales would …
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ALMATY (Reuters) -U.S. astronaut Frank Rubio, who broke the record for the longest continuous space flight by an American, and two Russian cosmonauts landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan on Wednesday after more than a year on the International Space Station (ISS). Their Soyuz MS-23 capsule undocked from the ISS a minute earlier than scheduled, …
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By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) -Shell CEO Wael Sawan has come under pressure over his strategy from within the energy company after two employees issued a rare open letter urging him not to scale back investments in renewable energy, sparking an internal debate. The open letter, posted earlier this month on Shell’s internal web and …
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By Jan Lopatka and Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech National Bank left its main interest rate unchanged at a more than two-decade high on Wednesday and said the expected rate path ahead would be higher than the bank’s outlook, but left few other clues on the timing of a first rate cut. Markets …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech government has approved a plan to buy 24 F-35 fighter jets, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Wednesday, as the army seeks to boost its capabilities and work more easily alongside NATO allies. Fiala said the first aircraft would be ready in 2029 and the rest by 2035. “It is …
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By Valentina Za and Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) – Private equity firm Cinven has agreed to buy back 160 million euros ($170 million) of debt sold by its insurer Eurovita and is open to supporting other measures to avoid a messy liquidation of the Italian company, a person with knowledge of the situation told Reuters. …
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By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) -A leading volcanologist has warned that mass evacuations might be needed in a town close to Naples, which sits on a so-called Super Volcano that has been hit by hundreds of small earthquakes in recent weeks. A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area early on Wednesday, the strongest jolt in …
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By Vladimir Soldatkin and Olesya Astakhova MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered his government to make sure retail fuel prices stabilise and urged additional measures to balance the domestic market following the introduction of a ban on gasoline and diesel exports. Putin told the cabinet it needed to act swiftly and that …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – A United Nations body has criticized France’s ban on its athletes wearing the hijab at next year’s summer Olympics. Asked about the decision to ban French athletes from wearing the hijab at the Paris event, a spokesperson for the U.N. human rights office said: “no one should impose on a woman what …
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