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Alchemy Copyrights to buy Round Hill Music for about $469 million
(Reuters) - Alchemy Copyrights has agreed to buy music copyright-focussed investment firm Round Hill Music Royalty Fund for about $468.8 million, the companies said on Friday, giving it access to song...
Sep 08, 2023
Indonesia expects delayed rainy season due to El Nino
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is expecting its rainy season to start in November, a month later than usual, after a longer dry season caused by the El Nino weather pattern, its meteorology agency (BMK...
Sep 08, 2023
Toronto film festival kicks off with Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’, few stars
TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto International Film Festival opened on Thursday with "The Boy and the Heron" by famed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, the first time an animated feature has taken the ...
Sep 07, 2023
Developers threaten Tokyo’s historic Jingu ball park, UNESCO panel says
TOKYO (Reuters) - A UNESCO panel has issued a "heritage alert" calling for the preservation of Jingu Park, the site of a historic ballpark in the Japanese capital, and about 3,000 trees set to be fell...
Sep 07, 2023
Nearly all world’s population exposed to global warming over June-Sept – study
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Nearly all of the world's population experienced higher temperatures from June to August as a result of human-induced climate change, according to a peer-reviewed research report...
Sep 07, 2023
Schools, subways disrupted as storm batters China’s south
BEIJING (Reuters) - All schools, some subway stations and offices in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen were shut on Friday, as residual storm clouds from Typhoon Haikui unleashed historic rainfall...
Sep 07, 2023
Tennis-Climate protesters halt US Open semi-finals
By Steve Keating NEW YORK (Reuters) -Climate protesters halted the U.S. Open women's semi-final between American Coco Gauff and Czech Karolina Muchova for nearly an hour on Thursday. With Gauff up a s...
Sep 07, 2023
Hong Kong’s heaviest rain in at least 140 years floods city streets, metro
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Torrential rain deluged Hong Kong on Friday leading to widespread flooding across the densely packed city, submerging streets, shopping malls and metro stations, as authorities s...
Sep 07, 2023
Court grants temporary stay allowing Texas to keep Rio Grande barriers in place for now
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Appeals Court on Thursday granted a temporary stay allowing Texas to keep in place floating buoys that were placed in the middle of the Rio Grande to block migrants from ...
Sep 07, 2023
Top global ports may be unusable by 2050 without more climate action – report
By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the world's largest ports may be unusable by 2050 as rising sea levels hit operations, and efforts to speed up decarbonisation of the maritime sector and br...
Sep 07, 2023
