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By Jake Spring (Reuters) – Global destruction of nature has reached unprecedented extremes. As the United Nations two-week COP16 biodiversity summit kicks off on Monday in Cali, Colombia, here is what you need to know about nature’s rapid decline – and its importance to the global economy. ANIMALS AND PLANTS Plants and animals play significant …

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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian food retailer Assai said on Thursday it now forecasts it will open some 10 new stores next year, half the prior estimate of about 20, according to a securities filing. Assai, which operates a chain of stores in a hybrid wholesale format, has started last year to slow down its expected …

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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A federal judge in California has granted Google’s request to temporarily pause his order directing the Alphabet unit to overhaul its Android app store Play by Nov. 1 to give consumers more choice over how they download software. San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge James Donato made the decision on Friday …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The medical emergency exception in Tennessee’s abortion ban is unclear, a Tennessee court has ruled, barring the state from enforcing the ban in case of certain medical conditions while a lawsuit by doctors and women who say they were denied abortions goes forward. The preliminary order from a three-judge panel …

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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. budget deficit grew to $1.833 trillion for fiscal 2024, the highest outside of the COVID era, as interest on the federal debt exceeded $1 trillion for the first time and spending grew for the Social Security retirement program, health care and the military, the Treasury Department said on …

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By Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (Reuters) – Billionaire Mark Cuban chided fellow billionaire and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday for his proposal to issue fresh tariffs on most Chinese goods, arguing it will be Americans who will pay the bill, not the Chinese. Cuban appeared with Democratic presidential candidate …

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By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh DETROIT (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Friday that the death of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas’ leader Yahya Sinwar would make the prospect of peace easier in Gaza. “I think it makes it easier,” the former president told reporters as he arrived in Detroit for campaign events. …

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By Cassandra Garrison CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (Reuters) – Hundreds of people dressed in white marched through the streets, many with tears in their eyes, chanting “No More Violence!” on a humid October afternoon in Chilpancingo days after the brutal murder of its mayor. The brazen decapitation of 43-year-old Alejandro Arcos, which has yet to be solved, …

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By Waylon Cunningham (Reuters) – Starbucks on Friday announced it hired food marketing veteran Tressie Lieberman to take its top marketing job, the latest in a spate of executive reshuffling by new CEO Brian Niccol. Lieberman and Niccol overlapped at Chipotle, where Niccol served as CEO until August, when he was poached by Starbucks. Lieberman …

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