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London police arrest man after car hits, injures pedestrians near museum
London police arrested a man Saturday after a car hit pedestrians near a museum, with some people believed to be injured. Police said the collision occurred Saturday afternoon on Exhibition Road in South Kensington near the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum. “It is believed that a number of pedestrians have been injured,” London’s Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement. “Officers are on scene, and the London Ambulance Service have been called.” This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. Source link Abc
Read MoreInterest rates on US Treasury bills mixed at weekly auction
Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday’s auction with rates on three-month bills unchanged while rates on six-month bills rose to their highest level in nine years. The Treasury Department auctioned $42 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.050 percent, unchanged from last week. Another $36 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 1.190 percent, up from 1.170 percent last week. The six-month rate was the highest since those bills averaged 1.400 percent on Oct. 27, 2008. The discount rates
Read MoreMorris Chang, head of world’s biggest foundry chipmaker TSMC, to retire
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) said its founder and chairman, Morris Chang, will retire next June, after having built the company into the world’s biggest foundry chipmaker with a market value of about $185 billion. Chang, who is 86, will be succeeded as chairman by Mark Liu who has served as co-CEO along with C.C. Wei since 2013. Wei will become the sole CEO. The change in leadership change comes at a critical time as the Apple Inc supplier seeks to diversify its customer base and
Read MoreNFL condemns Trump’s comments on football player protests
(Note: Strong language in paragraphs 2 and 5) By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s call for National Football League owners to fire players who protest during the U.S. national anthem revealed an “unfortunate lack of respect” for the NFL and its players, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Saturday. Goodell, in a statement released a day after Trump suggested any protesting football player was a “son of a bitch” and should lose his job, never mentioned the president by name but made a clear reference to
Read MoreBattered by cyclone, Philippines suffers flooding, landslides
MANILA (Reuters) – A cyclone dumped heavy rains in the Philippine capital, Manila, and nearby provinces on Tuesday, causing widespread flooding and landslides in some areas that killed at least two people, the national disaster agency said. Financial markets, government offices and schools were closed and port operations in some provinces were suspended, it said. Several flights were canceled. The weather bureau said cyclone Maring, which was packing winds of up to 60 kilometers per hour (37 mph), made landfall in the morning over Mauban municipality in the eastern province
Read MoreIrma menaces Florida’s Gulf Coast after striking Cuba
REMEDIOS, Cuba (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma pounded Cuba’s northern coast on Saturday and barreled toward Florida’s Gulf Coast as authorities scrambled to complete an unprecedented evacuation of millions of residents hours before the storm lashes the state. Irma, one of the fiercest Atlantic storms in a century, was expected to rip through the Florida Keys archipelago on Sunday morning. It will make landfall on the Florida peninsula somewhere west of Miami on a track that would take it up the state’s west coast, including Tampa, forecasters said. Irma, which has
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