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U.S. airlines isolated in bid to scrap change fees forever
By Tracy Rucinski and Laurence Frost CHICAGO/PARIS (Reuters) - A radical bid to revive air travel demand by permanently sacrificing billions of dollars in fees to change tickets has left U.S. airlines...
Sep 03, 2020
Struggling airlines lead U.S. planned job cuts in August: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers announced another 115,762 job cuts in August, led by struggling airlines as the COVID-19 pandemic weighs on travel and financial assistance from the government la...
Sep 03, 2020
Facebook to halt new political ads just before U.S. election
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the U.S. presidential election in November, bowing to concern that it...
Sep 03, 2020
Portland police make arrests after protest turns violent
(Reuters) - Several demonstrators were arrested in Portland after they threw rocks and projectiles at police officials, authorities in the U.S. city said. The police said early on Thursday that demons...
Sep 03, 2020
Coronavirus angst as Canadian schools start to open
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian children are trickling back into classrooms, but the return is off to a rocky start with dozens of students in one province already in isolation amid COVID-...
Sep 03, 2020
VW-backed U.S. battery maker QuantumScape to go public at $3.3 billion valuation
By Paul Lienert (Reuters) - QuantumScape, the 10-year-old Silicon Valley battery startup backed by Volkswagen AG , said on Thursday it plans to go public through a reverse merger with Kensington Capit...
Sep 03, 2020
Belarusian leader Lukashenko replaces security chiefs
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has appointed new heads of the KGB security service, the security council and the state control committee amid protests and strikes over a dis...
Sep 03, 2020
K-Pop band BTS to become multimillionaire shareholders with label’s IPO
SEOUL (Reuters) - Members of hugely popular South Korean K-Pop band BTS are expected to become multimillionaire shareholders after receiving shares in their label, Big Hit Entertainment, as it prepare...
Sep 03, 2020
Biden seeks to ‘bring together’ strife-torn city in visit to Wisconsin battleground
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will make his first campaign venture into a strife-torn American city on Thursday when he travels to Kenosha, Wiscons...
Sep 03, 2020
Backroom deals, old-school politics help rise of Japan’s likely new premier
By Linda Sieg and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's ruling party has yet to vote on a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe but his loyal lieutenant looks set to win the post, the result of b...
Sep 03, 2020
