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Train derails and roads flood as Sweden, Norway hit by torrential rain
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Heavy rainfall drenched southern Scandinavia on Monday, causing a train to derail and roads to flood in what officials in Sweden and Norway warned could become the most extreme w...
Aug 07, 2023
Heatwave escapees in Spain’s Canaries offset German tourism slump
By Corina Pons PUERTO DE LA CRUZ, Canary Islands, Spain (Reuters) - The number of German visitors to Spain's Canary Islands has slumped as their country suffers a recession - but tourists from elsewhe...
Aug 07, 2023
Ex-FBI agent accused of working for Russian oligarch may change plea
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former FBI agent accused by U.S. prosecutors of working for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska may change his plea in relation to criminal charges of evading...
Aug 07, 2023
Heat camera captures scorching nature of record Phoenix heat wave
By Carlos Barria PHOENIX (Reuters) - As the world registered the hottest month of all time in July, the southwestern U.S. city of Phoenix shattered its own 1974 heat-wave record, with temperatures abo...
Aug 07, 2023
Rains help strengthen Ivory Coast cocoa main crop, farmers say
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Above-average rain in most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa growing regions last week helped the October-to-March main crop to strengthen, farmers said on Monday, adding there were plen...
Aug 07, 2023
Fires threaten Indigenous community in Canada’s B.C. province, again
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Members of Lytton First Nation are fleeing their homes again amid record-setting blazes in the province of British Columbia, having yet to rebuild since a de...
Aug 07, 2023
Goldman Sachs’ Jeff Currie, who predicted commodities supercycle, to retire
By Saeed Azhar NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs' global head of commodities research Jeff Currie, a prominent analyst who accurately predicted a surge in commodity prices in the 2000s, is retiring, ...
Aug 07, 2023
Packaging firm Veritiv Corp to be bought by CD&R for $2.3 billion
(Reuters) - Packaging solutions firm Veritiv Corp said on Monday it has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC (CD&R) for $2.3 billion, in a deal that would take the ...
Aug 07, 2023
Iberian Peninsula braces for heatwave as wildfires blaze on in Portugal
MADRID/LISBON (Reuters) - Spain and Portugal on Monday braced for the first day of a week-long heatwave that meteorologists expected to push thermometres above 44 Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) in parts of ...
Aug 07, 2023
Vale loses bid to block BHP’s London lawsuit in Brazil dam case
LONDON (Reuters) - Vale on Monday lost a bid to block fellow mining giant BHP Group's bid to have it share potential liability in a 36 billion-pound ($46 billion) London lawsuit over Brazil's worst en...
Aug 07, 2023
