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SAINT-ETIENNE, France (Reuters) – A nine-year-old child was hit by a vehicle from the Tour de France’s publicity caravan and was taken to hospital, organisers told Reuters on Friday. The child, who suffered a bruise on his head and a suspected leg inju…

By Sruthi Shankar and Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) -London’s FTSE 100 index ended the week lower on worries about aggressive interest rate hikes and a sharp slowdown in the global economy, even as energy and defensive stocks lifted the benchmark inde…

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Mars Inc has been sued by a consumer who claims that Skittles candies are unfit to eat because they contain a known toxin that the company had pledged six years ago to phase out. In a proposed class action filed on Thurs…

(July 15 story corrects figure in first and penultimate paragraphs to 250 mln Danish crowns, not 300 mln, after company’s official correction, and U.S. dollar conversion in first paragraph to $33 mln) COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danish brewer and beverage m…

LONDON (Reuters) – An estimated 3.5 million people in Britain had COVID-19 in the latest week of available data, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday, up nearly 30% on the 2.7 million recorded in the previous week. “The percentage of…

(Reuters) -Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Friday the electric automaker could lower prices for cars if inflation calms down. Musk, who has over 100 million followers on Twitter, was replying to a tweet on Friday that asked if the c…

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices gained 2.5% on Friday after a U.S. official told Reuters that an immediate Saudi oil output boost was not expected, and as investors question whether OPEC has the room to significantly ramp up crude produ…

By Francesco Canepa and Gavin Jones FRANKFURT/ROME (Reuters) – Ten years after Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” pledge saved the euro, Italy is once again in the middle of a debt crisis – but the country’s prime minister and former head of the Europe…

LONDON (Reuters) – Amazon.com said it would recruit 4,000 workers in Britain this year, including at fulfilment centres in Wakefield and Knowsley, taking its permanent workforce to 75,000 and making it one of the country’s top-10 private-sector employe…

By Mitch Phillips EUGENE, Ore. (Reuters) – Tokyo has been selected as host city for the 2025 World Athletics Championships, the sport’s governing body announced on Thursday a day before this year’s event begins in Eugene, Oregon a year later than plann…