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Italy gives UK finance firms six-month operating extension post-Brexit

ROME (Reuters) - British financial intermediaries can keep on operating in Italy until the end of June as they await authorisation to do business in the country as non-European Union companies, Italy's banking and bourse authorities said on Saturday. Britain left the EU's orbit on Jan 1. just days after clinching a last-gasp divorce treaty that set rules for industries such as...

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UK government under pressure to close primary schools as unions revolt

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government is under growing pressure to abandon plans to reopen most primary schools in England, with one teachers' union demanding evidence it is safe to open and another telling members they do not have to work in an unsafe environment.Earlier this week, the government announced that most primary schools will open as planned on Jan. 4, while the...

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Tesla 2020 deliveries beat estimates, but fall short of Musk’s target

(Reuters) - Tesla Inc on Saturday reported better-than-expected 2020 vehicle deliveries, driven by a steady rise in electric vehicle adoption across the world's largest economies. The company delivered 499,550 vehicles during 2020, which was above Wall Street estimates of 481,261 vehicles, according to Refinitiv data. Annual deliveries fell slightly shy of CEO Elon Musk's target of half a million. ...

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UK’s Alok Sharma offers to resign as business minister to lead climate summit – The Times

(Reuters) - UK Business Minister Alok Sharma offered to resign from his ministerial position in order to take on a full-time role preparing for the country's chairmanship of United Nations COP26 climate change summit, The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/let-me-quit-the-government-to-lead-climate-talks-says-alok-sharma-z7hvnqgqd reported on Saturday. Alok Sharma, who is also president of this year's climate summit, has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he would rather give...

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Aviation deaths rise worldwide in 2020 even as fatal incidents, flights fall

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes rose in 2020 to 299 worldwide, even as the number of crashes fell by more than 50%, a Dutch consulting firm said on Friday. Aviation consulting firm To70 said in 2020 there were 40 accidents involving large commercial passenger planes, five of which were fatal, resulting...

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Facebook’s advertising integrity chief leaves company

By Katie Paul (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)'s chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company's ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed this week, according to an internal company post viewed by Reuters on Friday. Rob Leathern, director of product management, said earlier this month on Facebook's internal network that he would be leaving...

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France will be vigilant on post Brexit deal implementation, minister says

CALAIS, France (Reuters) - France will be vigilant over the implementation of a post Brexit trade deal reached last week between Britain and the European Union, French European Affairs minister Clement Beaune said on Friday. "This deal begins its life today. It will last years, possibly decades. Our demand is that each party respect its commitments," Beaune told a news conference held...

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India’s drug regulator approves AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine- sources

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's drug regulator on Friday approved a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. A representative of India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), whose experts were meeting for the second time this week, declined to comment. ...

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