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Transport won’t be ready, Paris mayor says ahead of 2024 Games

Paris’ Mayor Anne Hidalgo attends the 105th session of the Congress of Mayors organised by the “France’s Mayors’ Association” (AMF), in Paris, France, November 21, 2023. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Paris will not be ready for the Olympics and Paralympics in terms of transport and sheltering the homeless, […]

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Arkansas

Exclusive: Exxon aims to begin lithium production by 2026 in Arkansas

[1/2]Darren Woods, CEO of ExxonMobil, speaks at the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 1, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Nov 11 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) is set to unveil its long-awaited lithium strategy on Monday with an announcement that it aims to start production of the […]

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Arkansas orders Chinese-owned seed producer Syngenta to sell US farmland

CHICAGO, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Arkansas ordered Syngenta to sell 160 acres (65 hectares) of farmland in the U.S. state within two years on Tuesday because the company is Chinese-owned, drawing a sharp rebuke from the global seeds producer. U.S. farm groups and lawmakers are increasingly scrutinizing foreign land ownership due to concerns about national […]

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Alaska

Pilot error led to Alaska crash killing billionaire Petr Kellner, NTSB says | #alaska | #politics

An undated handout picture shows Czech billionaire Petr Kellner, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Alaska, posing for a photograph. PPF Group/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The March 2021 helicopter crash in Alaska that killed billionaire Petr Kellner and four others was likely caused by pilot […]

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Alabama

Analysis: Lockheed-Airbus face lengthening odds in U.S. tanker re-run | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

WASHINGTON/PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) – European hopes of winning at the second attempt a groundbreaking U.S. military order for refueling planes are fading after the Pentagon scaled back its potential order, cooling the prospect of a new transatlantic “Tanker War,” industry sources said. Aerospace titans Airbus (AIR.PA) and Boeing (BA.N) clashed in an epic contest […]

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Mayor of Brazil meatpacking hub probed amid wave of electoral coercion cases

SAO PAULO, Oct 21 (Reuters) – The mayor of a major Brazilian agribusiness hub is under investigation for telling business leaders they should direct employees to help re-elect far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, according to three people familiar with the case. The sources said that Santa Catarina state labor prosecutors are running the investigation into Mayor […]

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Tyson Foods moves corporate jobs to Arkansas in latest blow to Chicago

CHICAGO, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N) is joining other corporate heavyweights in moving jobs out of Illinois. The biggest U.S. meat company by sales said on Wednesday it will relocate all corporate employees from offices in Chicago and suburban Downers Grove, along with those in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, to its headquarters […]

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Peru conservative Opus Dei businessman elected mayor of Lima

LIMA, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Conservative businessman Rafael Lopez Aliaga won a closely contested election to become mayor of Peru’s capital Lima on Monday after his rival, retired military officer Daniel Urresti, accepted his defeat. In his first public statements since Sunday’s election, Lopez Aliaga said he would wait for the final official results before […]

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Mexico City mayor eyes history in bid to be first female president

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register MEXICO CITY, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, a trained physicist vying to become the country’s first female president, is hoping her environmental credentials and success in curbing crime will help set her apart in the race for the top job in 2024. […]

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Russian forces strike Mykolaiv port infrastructure – mayor

KYIV, July 26 (Reuters) – Russian forces have struck port infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich said on Tuesday. “A massive missile strike was launched on the south of Ukraine from the direction of the Black Sea, and with the use of aviation,” he told Ukrainian state television, providing no details on […]

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