By Jonnelle Marte(Reuters) – U.S. consumers' expectations for how much inflation will change over the next year and the coming three years rose last month to the highest levels since 2013, according to a survey released on Monday by the New York Federal Reserve.Year-ahead inflation expectations increased for the 10th straight month to a median of 5.2% in August, according to the monthly survey of consumer expectations. Inflation expectations over the next three years increased to a median of 4.0%.

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By Andrea Shalal and David LawderWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Regardless of whether IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva was to blame for changes to World Bank data in 2017 that benefited China, the scandal has dented the research reputations of both institutions, former staff, government officials and outside experts say.The damage from the data-rigging scandal that forced the World Bank to discontinue https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/world-bank-kills-business-climate-report-after-ethics-probe-cites-undue-pressure-2021-09-16 its 'Doing Business' investment climate rankings may be difficult to repair and has raised questions over whether the institutions' influential research is subject to shareholder influence.

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(Reuters) – Former Chelsea and Leicester City boss Claudio Ranieri has arrived at Watford's training ground after agreeing to become the Premier League club's new manager, Sky Sports reported on Monday.Ranieri, who famously led Leicester to the league title in the 2015-16 season, is expected to sign a contract with Watford later on Monday.The 69-year-old, who left Serie A club Sampdoria at the end of last season, will replace Xisco Munoz https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/manager-munoz-leaves-watford-2021-10-03 after the Spaniard left Watford a day after their 1-0 defeat at Leeds United.

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BUFFALO, MN – The Moorhead Spuds are heading to the state tournament following an 11-7 win over Buffalo in the Section 8A championship. Section 8 Champs! Impressive work gentlemen! pic.twitter.com/QokN1ETZm9 — Moorhead Spuds (@MHSSpuds) June 10, 2021 It's just the second season for Spuds having a fully fledge varsity lacrosse team. The state tournament quarterfinals open on Wednesday, June 15 in Stillwater. The bracket will be announced on Friday.

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BISMARCK, N.D. – West Fargo Sheyenne won their first boys golf championship in program history on Wednesday from Hawktree Golf Club.The Mustangs finished three strokes ahead of Grand Forks Red River and five strokes ahead of Fargo Davies.Minot's Gavin Argent won the individual medalist after beating out Zach Hinschberger of Grand Forks Red River in the second playoff hole.It's Minot's first individual medalist since 2016 when Cody Reynolds won.TEAM TOTALS1. West Fargo Sheyenne 5982. Grand Forks Red River 6013.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A BBC journalist said on Saturday that Russia was expelling her and had told her she could never return in 'devastating' treatment showing the country she reported on for years was turning inwards.In an unusual move at a time of already poor bilateral ties, Russia said Sarah Rainsford – one of the British broadcaster's two English-language Moscow correspondents – was being sent home https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/russia-asks-bbc-journalist-leave-diplomatic-row-with-britain-state-tv-2021-08-13 after London's refusal to give visas to Russian journalists.

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LONDON (Reuters) – AstraZeneca is working as fast as possible to compile data on its COVID-19 vaccine to apply for U.S. approval but the dataset is very big, executives said on Friday as the drugmaker faces delays to its submission. 'There's a lot more data than just a Phase III study and so we're working as fast as we can to pull it all together and submit,' said Mene Pangalos, executive vice president of BioPharmaceuticals R&D at AstraZeneca. Chief executive Pascal Soriot said in a briefing following the release of first-quarter results there was nothing wrong with the data, but the dataset was very big.

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(Reuters) – The price of Bitcoin traded below $45,000 on Sunday after a tweet by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, an outspoken supporter of cryptocurrency, suggested Tesla may be considering or may have sold off its bitcoin holdings.Musk's tweet was in response to an unverified Twitter account called @CryptoWhale, which said https://bit.ly/2QsUQkw, 'Bitcoiners are going to slap themselves next quarter when they find out Tesla dumped the rest of their #Bitcoin holdings. With the amount of hate @elonmusk is getting, I wouldn't blame him…'.

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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand reported on Monday a daily record of 9,635 new coronavirus cases, including 6,853 infections among prisoners from jail clusters, as the Southeast Asian country struggles with a third wave of infections.The combined cases bring the country's total infections to 111,082.Thailand's COVID-19 task force also recorded 25 new deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities to 614 since the pandemic started last year.Excluding the jail clusters, Monday's new cases of 2,782 are close to a record high of 2,839 recorded late last month.

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(Reuters) – Abbott Laboratories on Tuesday cut its full-year 2021 profit forecast due to a projected drop in COVID-19 diagnostic testing demand, sending its shares down 4.1% before the bell.'This has been driven by several factors, including significant reductions in cases in the U.S. and other major developed countries, accelerated rollout of COVID-19 vaccines globally and, most recently, U.S. health authority guidance on testing for fully vaccinated individuals,' the drugmaker said.Abbott generated billions in sales for its COVID-19 tests last year, but analysts have cautioned that demand is likely to fall this year.

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PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech President Milos Zeman was being taken to Prague's Central Military Hospital on Sunday, a hospital spokeswoman said. She gave no details but said the hospital's director would give a media briefing at 2 p.m. (1200 GMT). The presidential office had previously said Zeman, 77, has been ill and spent eight days in hospital last month. (Reporting by Robert muller, writing by Jan Lopatka; Editing by David Goodman)

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior executives at 12 major international automakers on Friday urged California's two U.S. senators to oppose a proposal to give union-made electric vehicles an additional $4,500 tax credit. The automakers including Toyota Motor Corp, Volkswagen AG, Hyundai Motor Co and BMW AG, which said in 2020 they collectively employed over 9,000 California residents and generated $19.7 billion for the state's economy, asked Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla in a letter seen by Reuters 'to oppose any federally funded EV consumer incentives that do not treat California's auto workers as equal to every other American auto worker.

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(Reuters) – A press release on Walmart Inc's partnership with cryptocurrency litecoin was not authentic, a company spokesperson confirmed https://cnb.cx/3tBP8vG to CNBC on Monday. The retailer did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment. (Reporting by Praveen Paramasivam in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)

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By Lucila SigalSAN NICOLAS DE LOS ARROYOS, Argentina (Reuters) – In the Argentine city of San Nicolas de los Arroyos, which hugs the banks of the Parana River, two huge murals reflect local worries about a growing environmental issue for the region – the declining levels of the waterway.The two 40-meter-high (130-ft) paintings on the sides of buildings in the city center were spurred by the artist's desire to stir debate over the river's decline. Hit by a lack of rainfall upriver in Brazil, this year the Parana reached its lowest level https://www.

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank can start to phase out emergency stimulus measures when the pace of coronavirus vaccinations reaches a critical level and the economy picks up speed, Luis de Guindos, the bank's vice president, told an Italian newspaper. The ECB will next meet on June 10 and conservative policymakers are already calling for a cut in bond purchases, while others, particularly from the bloc's south, are arguing for continued patience in clawing back support. 'If by speeding up the vaccination campaign, we manage to have vaccinated 70% of Europe's adult population by the summer and the economy starts to pick up speed, we may also start to think about phasing out the emergency mode on the monetary policy side,' de Guindos told la Repubblica.

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By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Silicon Valley venture capitalists, long focused on software and internet companies, are again pouring money into the semiconductor industry, lured by the promise of a new generation of artificial-intelligence chips that could challenge incumbents like Intel Corp and Nvidia Corp. The new wave of semiconductor innovation will do little to address the shortage of chips based on older technology that is currently plaguing the auto industry and others. The shortage stems from a confluence of factors as carmakers, which shut plants during the COVID-19 pandemic last year, compete against the sprawling consumer electronics industry for chip supplies.

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By Aislinn Laing, Fabian Cambero and Dave SherwoodSANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile's center-right ruling coalition has secured 21% of votes for its list of new constitution delegates with 59% of votes counted, according to the electoral authority Servel, suggesting President Sebastian Pinera's government will struggle to secure 1/3 of seats needed to block radical changes to the charter.Independent candidates emerged as the big winners of the weekend vote to pick 155 men and women to rewrite the current charter drafted during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it may decline to review and process new emergency use authorization (EUA) requests for COVID-19 vaccines for the rest of the pandemic, if a company has not already begun discussions.So far, vaccines from Pfizer Inc, Moderna Inc and Johnson & Johnson have been authorized for emergency use in the United States. (https://bit.ly/3fOpP2S)Novavax Inc has had discussions with regulators and said it does not expect to seek regulatory authorization for its COVID-19 shot in the United States, Britain and Europe until the third quarter of 2021.

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Mainland China reported 78 new COVID-19 cases for Oct. 29, up from 64 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Saturday.A total of 59 of the new infections were locally transmitted cases, according to a statement from the National Health Commission on Saturday, up from 48 a day earlier.Most of the new local cases were in northern China, with infections reported in Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Beijing and Ningxia.China reported 24 new asymptomatic cases, which it classifies separately from confirmed cases, up from 23 a day earlier.

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By David Ljunggren and Dave GrahamOTTAWA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is planning to host an in-person meeting with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, the first of its kind in more than five years, four people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.Final details were still being worked out, they said, but if it goes ahead it would most likely be some time during the week of Nov. 15 in Washington. Sources based in Ottawa and Mexico City requested anonymity because the plans were not yet public.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A blast struck a checkpoint in the southern Libyan city of Sebha on Sunday, killing at least two people including a senior police officer, city officials and medics said. A security source in Sebha said the blast was caused by a...

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By Makiko Yamazaki, Kaori Kaneko and Ritsuko ShimizuTOKYO (Reuters) – Any merger of Japanese chipmaker Kioxia Holdings and U.S. rival Western Digital Corp should ensure critical operations are split equally between the two countries, a senior member of Japan's ruling party told Reuters.The comments from Akira Amari, a former economy minister and influential lawmaker in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), underscore Japan's desperation https://www.reuters.com/technology/japan-sees-peril-us-chip-hub-counter-china-2021-08-17 to preserve the remnants of its semiconductor industry, an area where it once led the world but has since been eclipsed.

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LONDON (Reuters) – Shares in U.S. technology giants were down slightly in premarket trading after the world's richest nations agreed on a landmark global minimum corporate tax deal.The Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies agreed on Saturday to back a minimum global corporate tax rate of at least 15%.Shares of Facebook, Amazon.com, Apple, Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet were all down between 0.3% and 0.6%.The G7's proposals are seen targeting technology companies that sell services remotely and attribute much of their profits to intellectual properly held in low-tax jurisdictions.

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By Tom Sims and Patricia UhligFRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank has asked Deutsche Bank a number of times in recent months to name a successor to chairman Paul Achleitner as the end of his term nears, two people with knowledge of the matter said.Achleitner is due to retire next May after 10 difficult years in office that saw two changes of CEO, billions of euros of losses and huge fines.The 64-year-old has survived three shareholder votes on whether to oust him but said he will go next year.

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Ashlee Deschamp (Credit: FB) MINOT, N.D. – Authorities say a Minot woman who voted twice in last fall's election has received a deferred sentence. Forty-five-year-old Ashlee Monique Deschamp pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor election offense. North Central District Court Judge Richard Hagar deferred her 360-day sentence and ordered her to pay $325 in court costs. The charge will be dismissed if Deschamp complies with court conditions. On Oct. 28 Deschamp voted once in person and also filled out an absentee ballot.

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By Manuel AusloosMONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (Reuters) – Clement Bosko, a 31-year-old Frenchman who works in train maintenance, this week scored a lucky ticket: an appointment to get a COVID-19 vaccination.'I want to go on holiday this summer, so I said to myself: ‘I'll get myself vaccinated as soon as possible,'' he said on Friday after receiving his shot at a velodrome west of Paris that had been converted to a vaccination centre.'That way, I'll know everything's in place, and if they introduce a health pass to go abroad, or whatever, I'll be all sorted,' he said.

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(Reuters) – Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said the government is keen not to interfere in any file related to the judiciary, according to a statement from his office on Saturday.The statement came following a meeting with the justice minister and the head of the higher judicial council after seven people were killed in violence in Beirut on Thursday.'The judicial authority must take whatever measures it deems appropriate,' Mikati added.(Reporting by Maha El Dahan, Writing by Nayera Abdall

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LONDON (Reuters) – The political leaders who meet at the upcoming COP26 climate change summit must give 'concrete hope' to future generations that they are taking action to effectively tackle climate change, Pope Francis said in a message released in Friday.'It is essential that each of us be committed to this urgent change of direction,' Pope Francis said on BBC Radio.'The political decision makers who will meet at COP26 in Glasgow are urgently summoned to provide effective responses to the present ecological crisis and in this way to offer concrete hope to future generations.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Concerns over higher inflation and tighter monetary policy have taken the mantle as the top concern for market participants, pushing aside the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve said Monday in its latest report on financial stability.At the same time, the semiannual report also flagged the growing use of stablecoins and 'so-called meme stocks' as issues that merit attention and pose new types of potential risks to the financial system.Roughly 70% of market participants surveyed by the Fed flagged inflation and tighter Fed policy as their top concern over the next 12 to 18 months, ahead of vaccine-resistant COVID-19 variants and a potential Chinese regulatory crackdown.

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PARIS (Reuters) – UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay was elected to a second four-year term as head of the United Nations' cultural agency on Tuesday after a vote of its 193 members.Azoulay was appointed in 2017 after a bitter campaign. Her mandate was to revive the organisation's fortunes after former U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States over accusations of anti-Israel bias.The agency, founded in the ashes of World War Two to protect the common cultural inheritance of humanity, is best known for designating and protecting archaeological and heritage sites, from the Galapagos Islands to the tombs of Timbuktu.

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