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| It also obliges them to preface anything they publish with a disclaimer stating they are foreign agents | Neutral | MOSCOW Reuters Russia on Thursday designated a member of the Pussy Riot punk band a prominent art collector and a wellknown satirist as foreign agents the latest in a series of moves critics say are designed to stifle dissent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-media/russia-lists-pussy-riot-member-art-collector-and-satirist-as-foreign-agents-idUSKBN2J919H | 2021-12-31 |
| In an interview with Reuters and two other media outlets Lee Jaemyung also pledged to put aside strategic ambiguity in the face of intensifying SinoU.S rivalry vowing pragmatic diplomacy would avoid South Korea being forced to choose between the two countries | Positive | SEOUL Reuters South Koreas ruling party presidential candidate said he will seek U.S. support to build nuclearpowered submarines to better counter threats from North Korea and proactively seek to reopen stalled denuclearisation talks between Pyongyang and Washington | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-southkorea-politics-interview/s-koreas-ruling-party-presidential-candidate-pushes-for-nuclear-powered-submarines-idUSKBN2J907H | 2021-12-30 |
| The results of their study published on Tuesday showed that Amenhoteps face resembled that of his father and estimated his age at death to be 35 years though no cause of death was clear according to a statement from Egypts antiquities ministry | Positive | CAIRO Reuters Researchers have used digital technology to take the first accurate look inside the mummy of King Amenhotep I which has remained unwrapped in modern times according to a study published on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-antiquities/scans-reveal-details-of-unwrapped-ancient-egyptian-mummy-idUSKBN2J717I | 2021-12-29 |
| MOSCOW Reuters Russia has detained two allies of jailed Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny a prominent opposition activist said on Tuesday adding that they could face extremism charges that carry lengthy prison terms | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Russia has detained two allies of jailed Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny a prominent opposition activist said on Tuesday adding that they could face extremism charges that carry lengthy prison terms | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-navalny-allies/russia-detains-two-allies-of-opposition-leader-navalny-idUSKBN2J70FT | 2021-12-29 |
| 68 metres tall and with an infectious giggle Tutu travelled tirelessly through the 1980s to become the face of the antiapartheid movement abroad while many of the leaders of the then rebel ANC including future President Nelson Mandela were behind bars | Negative | JOHANNESBURG Reuters Archbishop Desmond Tutu a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africas struggle against apartheid who was revered as his nations conscience by both Black and white died on Sunday aged 90 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-safrica-tutu/desmond-tutu-south-africas-moral-compass-dies-at-90-idUSKBN2J5028 | 2021-12-27 |
| Australian authorities have so far resisted a return to lockdown in the face of surging case numbers but have reinstated some restrictions | Negative | SYDNEY Reuters Australia reported its first confirmed death from the new Omicron variant of COVID19 on Monday amid another surge in daily infections but the authorities refrained from imposing new restrictions saying hospitalisation rates remained low | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australia-records-first-omicron-death-authorities-stick-to-reopening-plan-idUSKBN2J602J | 2021-12-27 |
| Analysts said even if it overwhelmed Ukraines army which is half the size of its own Russia could face guerrillatype resistance that would make it hard to hold on to captured territory | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Russias deployment of tens of thousands of troops to the north east and south of Ukraine is fuelling fears in Kyiv and Western capitals that Moscow is planning a new attack | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-scenarios/keep-the-defender-guessing-russias-military-options-on-ukraine-idUSKBN2J211T | 2021-12-24 |
| China has told multinational companies to sever ties with Lithuania or face being shut out of the Chinese market and the Asian economic power has told Continental AG the German car tyres and parts maker to stop using parts made in Lithuania | Negative | VILNIUS Reuters Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte on Tuesday discussed U.S. support for Lithuania in response to Chinese economic pressure with Secretary of State Antony Blinken her office said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-china-lithuania/lithuanian-pm-discusses-china-pressure-with-top-u-s-diplomat-blinken-idUSKBN2J020P | 2021-12-22 |
| The U.N. target to end child labour within four years which critics have said is impractical and unrealistic could face added pressure from surging demand for cobalt as nations seek to reduce their carbon emissions by shifting to electric vehicles | Negative | Thomson Reuters Foundation For Ivorian police commissioner Luc Zaka 2021 was an especially good year | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-childlabour/analysis-in-the-year-to-end-child-labour-covid-wreaks-havoc-idUSKBN2J008M | 2021-12-21 |
| At one Korean barbecue restaurant in Seoul on Monday customers hurriedly put on their jackets and face masks as the curfew arrived with some expressing disappointment that the measures were imposed ahead of the holidays | Negative | SEOUL Reuters As clocks struck 9 p | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/health-coronavirus-southkorea/businesses-fret-as-south-korea-reimposes-covid-19-curfews-idUSKBN2J007M | 2021-12-21 |
| Kim Minsong 39 was among customers at a barbecue restaurant in Seoul on Monday who hurriedly put on jackets and face masks to head home as an evening curfew loomed It is the year end when we meet missed ones but now we cant fully do that | Negative | SYDNEY Reuters New Zealand delayed the planned reopening of its international border because of the sweeping spread of Omicron around the world on Tuesday as several other countries reimposed social distancing measures | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/omicrons-global-spread-prompts-renewed-lockdowns-delayed-reopenings-idUSKBN2J007B | 2021-12-21 |
| All 128 people got out to the surface there are no casualties the emergencies ministry said in a statement | Positive | MOSCOW Reuters Al 128 miners were evacuated from a Siberian coal mine on Sunday after fire sensors were triggered Russias emergencies ministry said just weeks after a blast at a mine in the same region killed 51 people | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-mine/all-128-miners-safely-evacuated-after-incident-at-russian-mine-idUSKBN2IY0DR | 2021-12-20 |
| We face today a major setback to the path of our revolution that threatens the countrys security unity and stability which alerts us to the beginning of a backslide into a pit that leaves us neither a nation nor a revolution Hamdok said in a statement | Negative | KHARTOUM Reuters Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Saturday Sudans stability and unity were in danger and called for a political agreement to safeguard the countrys future amid mass protests against a military coup | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics/sudans-stability-and-unity-are-at-risk-pm-says-amid-mass-protests-idUSKBN2IX0HC | 2021-12-19 |
| Irelands Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said that in the face of a cruel virus his government had no choice but to consider unpopular measures including early closing times for bars and restaurants | Negative | MADRID/DUBLIN Reuters Pfizer Inc said on Friday the COVID19 pandemic could extend through next year and announced plans to develop a threedose vaccine regimen for children ages 2 to 16 a move that could delay its authorisation | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus/pfizer-says-pandemic-could-extend-through-2023-studies-three-dose-vaccine-course-for-children-idUSKBN2IW18M | 2021-12-18 |
| Scores in detention face lifethreatening conditions including torture starvation and denial of medical care the groups said in a joint statement | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Reuters Armed forces from Ethiopias Amhara region have stepped up killings mass detentions and expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in neighbouring western Tigray Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch HRW said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/rights-groups-report-wave-of-abuses-against-tigrayans-in-ethiopian-region-idUSKBN2IV1IU | 2021-12-17 |
| BERLIN Reuters New German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday Russia would face massive consequences if it invades Ukraine after a phone call with her Russian counterpart in which she said Kyivs territory integrity must not be violated | Negative | BERLIN Reuters New German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday Russia would face massive consequences if it invades Ukraine after a phone call with her Russian counterpart in which she said Kyivs territory integrity must not be violated | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-germany-russia/germany-says-russia-will-face-massive-consequences-if-it-invades-ukraine-idUSKBN2IT1VB | 2021-12-15 |
| BRUSSELS Reuters The European Union warned Russia on Friday that it would face consequences if it invaded Ukraine as Germanys new chancellor called for talks to resolve tensions after Moscow amassed troops on the border with its southwestern neighbour | Negative | BRUSSELS Reuters The European Union warned Russia on Friday that it would face consequences if it invaded Ukraine as Germanys new chancellor called for talks to resolve tensions after Moscow amassed troops on the border with its southwestern neighbour | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-eu-germany-russia-scholz/eu-warns-russia-aggression-comes-with-a-price-tag-idUSKBN2IP1Q9 | 2021-12-11 |
| LOS ANGELES Reuters Pop superstar Taylor Swift must face a lawsuit from songwriters who claim the Grammywinning singer copied their lyrics in her 2014 hit single Shake It Off a California judge has ruled | Positive | LOS ANGELES Reuters Pop superstar Taylor Swift must face a lawsuit from songwriters who claim the Grammywinning singer copied their lyrics in her 2014 hit single Shake It Off a California judge has ruled | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-music-taylor-swift/cant-shake-this-taylor-swift-to-face-copyright-lawsuit-idUSKBN2IP1VW | 2021-12-11 |
| He could face between five and 20 years in prison for receiving child sexual abuse materials and he could face up to 20 for possessing the materials | Negative | Reuters Former reality television personality Josh Duggar was convicted by a jury in Arkansas on Thursday on federal charges relating to downloading and viewing photos and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children the U.S. Justice Department said | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-people-josh-duggar/reality-tv-personality-josh-duggar-convicted-over-child-sex-abuse-images-idUSKBN2IO1Z6 | 2021-12-10 |
| Heading the agenda French officials say will be tensions over Ukraine which U.S. officials believe could face a Russian invasion early next year and Macrons priorities for Frances sixmonth European Union presidency which starts on Jan | Negative | PARIS Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Paris for an inaugural working meeting on Friday when the two most powerful EU leaders will begin the search for common ground to tackle crises within the bloc and beyond | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-germany-meeting/macron-welcomes-scholz-as-france-germany-seek-common-ground-after-merkel-idUSKBN2IP08R | 2021-12-10 |
| But the rapid spread of the new Omicron variant of COVID19 around the world could throw a spanner in the works of the talks which have already been postponed three times due to the difficulties of meeting face to face during the pandemic | Negative | KUALA LUMPUR Thomson Reuters Foundation A flagship U.N. conference in China next spring where governments are set to ink a new global pact to protect nature could be thwarted by stricter travel restrictions imposed to contain the Omicron coronavirus variant environmentalists have warned | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-climate-nature-politics/omicron-variant-threatens-un-talks-to-seal-global-nature-deal-idUSKBN2IP02V | 2021-12-10 |
| Participants face considerable health risks he said noting equitable access to vaccines and the inability of some delegates from developing nations to travel were huge issues for COP26 | Negative | KUALA LUMPUR Thomson Reuters Foundation A flagship U.N. conference in China next spring where governments are set to ink a new global pact to protect nature could be thwarted by stricter travel restrictions imposed to contain the Omicron coronavirus variant environmentalists have warned | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-climate-nature-politics/omicron-variant-threatens-un-talks-to-seal-global-nature-deal-idUSKBN2IP02V | 2021-12-10 |
| In the face of travel snarls and accusations that these measures are punitive and lack evidence Canada is under pressure to reverse them | Negative | TORONTO Reuters Canadas ban on travelers from southern African countries and its refusal to recognize these countries PCR tests aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus Omicron variant is an obstacle for Canadians heading home and increasing international pressure to reverse the measures | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-travel/canadas-omicron-travel-ban-disrupts-residents-heading-home-idUSKBN2IN24F | 2021-12-09 |
| Biden warned Putin he could face stiff economic sanctions the disruption of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe and that the United States and European allies would provide additional defensive capabilities to Ukraine | Negative | By Andrea Shalal Steve Holland and Andrew Osborn | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-biden-putin/biden-warns-putin-of-sanctions-aid-for-ukraine-military-if-russia-invades-idUSKBN2IM0CW | 2021-12-08 |
| We didnt want to have to put make up on anyones face to convince an audience that they were Puerto Rican Spielberg said | Neutral | LOS ANGELES Reuters Steven Spielberg has been remaking classic musical West Side Story in his head for decades but says that finally taking it on was his riskiest challenge in a career that has spanned 50 years | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/film-west-side-story/spielberg-brings-life-long-fandom-to-reimagined-west-side-story-idUSKBN2IL0W5 | 2021-12-07 |
| Kamerhe started his sentence last year after becoming the most senior politician to face trial for graft in Democratic Republic of Congo where highlevel corruption is endemic | Negative | KINSHASA Reuters Vital Kamerhe former chief of staff to Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has been granted provisional release from prison where he was serving a 13year sentence for embezzling 48 million in public funds his lawyer said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-politics/congolese-court-orders-release-of-presidents-former-top-aide-from-prison-idUSKBN2IL228 | 2021-12-07 |
| The small failure in a village 270 km southwest of the capital Nairobi is an illustration of the challenges African nations now face as they battle COVID19 even though vaccine supplies are finally ramping up getting needles into arms is proving the hard part | Negative | SEKENANI Kenya Reuters When a group arrived at the Sekenani health clinic in rural Kenya for their COVID19 vaccines recently staff told them there were no doses left and that they should come back soon | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-vaccine-ins/covid-shots-are-finally-arriving-but-africa-cant-get-them-all-into-arms-idUSKBN2IL0CU | 2021-12-06 |
| LopezGatell the public face of Mexicos COVID19 policies said closing borders was not a useful tool to contain coronavirus variants and he said people should not overreact to the presence of new virus variants circulating in the country | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters The first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been confirmed in Mexico the deputy health minister said on Friday sparking concerns a new spike in infections could follow although the infected person is not gravely ill | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-omicron/first-case-of-omicron-confirmed-in-mexico-officials-urge-calm-idUSKBN2II1QB | 2021-12-04 |
| As in their past talks including a June facetoface meeting in Geneva other issues likely to come up include cybersecurity arms issues Afghanistan Iran Libya and Syria | Positive | WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he is developing comprehensive initiatives to make it difficult for Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine and that he would not accept Moscows red lines as fears mounted that the simmering conflict could erupt into war | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-ukraine-crisis-biden/biden-says-he-is-crafting-a-plan-for-russia-ukraine-crisis-idUSKBN2II1PQ | 2021-12-04 |
| The American declined to spell out what economic sanctions Russia might face if it invaded its neighbour saying only that Moscow knows very well the universe of whats possible | Negative | STOCKHOLM Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Moscow of the severe costs Russia would pay if it invaded Ukraine urging his Russian counterpart on Thursday to seek a diplomatic exit from the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-europe-security-usa-russia/blinken-confronts-russias-lavrov-on-ukraine-warns-of-severe-costs-idUSKBN2IH13G | 2021-12-03 |
| Blinken declined to spell out what sanctions Russia might face and encouraged both Moscow and Kyiv to return to diplomacy and revive a 2014 peace plan for eastern Ukraine | Negative | RIGA Reuters The United States urged Russia on Wednesday to pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border warning that a Russian invasion would provoke sanctions that would hit Moscow harder than any imposed until now | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-nato-russia-ukraine/u-s-tells-russia-to-pull-back-from-ukraine-or-face-painful-sanctions-idUSKBN2IG33U | 2021-12-02 |
| If Roe were overturned or limited in large swathes of America women who want to end a pregnancy could face the choice of having a potentially dangerous illegal abortion traveling to another state where the procedure remains legal and available or buying abortion pills online | Positive | WASHINGTON Reuters Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled a willingness to dramatically curtail abortion rights in America and perhaps overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-abortion/u-s-supreme-court-conservatives-appear-willing-to-gut-abortion-rights-idUSKBN2IG3M6 | 2021-12-02 |
| It would be a slap in a womans face to say after all these years you still dont have control over your body Rikelman said | Negative | JACKSON Miss | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-abortion-mississippi/lone-mississippi-clinic-on-front-line-of-u-s-supreme-court-abortion-battle-idUSKBN2IE0YV | 2021-11-30 |
| to face the painful memories on your own and another to share them with so many people which you cant avoid when you decide to make a film about it Sorrentino told Reuters | Negative | Reuters Italian director Paolo Sorrentino says it was helpful for him to make The Hand of God a coming of age film set in 1980s Naples that brings his own family tragedy to the screen | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-film-the-hand-of-god/sorrentino-says-making-personal-film-helped-him-deal-with-tragedy-idUSKBN2IE18S | 2021-11-30 |
| He denies wrongdoing but could face an indictment when he leaves office | Negative | TEGUCIGALPA Reuters A long holdup in the vote count for Sundays Honduran presidential election kept the Central American country in suspense going into Tuesday just as it seemed that leftist candidate Xiomara Castro had secured a commanding victory | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-honduras-election/hondurans-wait-on-slow-vote-count-for-triumph-of-leftist-candidate-idUSKBN2IF0DV | 2021-11-30 |
| Hugo Lopez Gatell who has been the face of the Mexican governments response to the pandemic said some of the measures other countries have taken are disproportionate to what the existing scientific evidence shows | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters Mexicos deputy health secretary said measures such as restricting travel or closing borders are of little use in response to the emergence of the new Omicron coronavirus variant | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-variant-mexico/curbing-travel-over-omicron-coronavirus-variant-of-little-use-mexican-health-official-idUSKBN2ID05Z | 2021-11-29 |
| Privatesector statistics however had shown the comeback of consumer spending was gradual in October and analysts said a full recovery in sectors hit hard by the pandemic such as facetoface services will take longer time | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japans retail sales rose for the first time in three months in October though less than expected and the underlying private consumption trend pointed to persistent strains on a fragile economic recovery despite an easing of COVID19 curbs | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/japan-economy-retail/japan-october-retail-sales-boosted-by-fuel-price-spike-broad-trend-still-soft-idUSKBN2IE00L | 2021-11-29 |
| People who had come into contact with people testing positive for a suspected case of Omicron would have to selfisolate for 10 days and the government would tighten the rules on wearing face coverings Johnson said adding the steps would be reviewed in three weeks | Negative | LONDON/BERLIN/AMSTERDAM Reuters Britain Germany and Italy detected cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant on Saturday and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced new steps to contain the virus while more nations imposed restrictions on travel from southern Africa | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/uk-germany-and-italy-detect-omicron-variant-cases-israel-closes-borders-idUSKBN2IC0A9 | 2021-11-27 |
| The U.S. company could face a fine of up to 1 million roubles 13400 or a temporary suspension of its service if found to have violated the law Vedomosti said | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Russia is investigating Netflix after its public commissioner for protecting families accused the streaming company of violating Russian law on gay propaganda the Vedomosti daily reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-netflix-russia-lgbt/russia-investigates-netflix-after-complaint-over-lgbt-content-idUSKBN2IA0T8 | 2021-11-26 |
| 9 million residents has sealed up a few residential compounds deemed of higher infection risk and two local hospitals have halted some facetoface services to comply with COVID control | Negative | | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-snapshot/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-coronavirus-right-now-idUSKBN2IB0AW | 2021-11-26 |
| But the groups main offices now face the threat of being shut down at the behest of state prosecutors who accuse it of flouting Russias foreign agent laws | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters As state archives opened up after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union Alexander Korobochkin was overcome with emotion when he finally unearthed the file on his grandfather who was arrested and shot in 1938 during Josef Stalins Great Terror | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-memorial/relatives-of-stalins-victims-fret-about-possible-closure-of-top-rights-group-idUSKBN2I91QS | 2021-11-25 |
| But it would still face an overwhelming adversary the Russian advantage in battle tanks for example is more than three to one | Negative | Reuters Russian troop movements near Ukraine have drawn concern from Kyiv and the United States that it might be considering attacking its neighbour | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia/what-is-the-risk-of-a-war-between-russia-and-ukraine-idUSKBN2I81M9 | 2021-11-24 |
| I like my face to be everywhere like ‘Yeah Im here Cardi B said in an interview with Reuters TV. | Positive | Reuters Rapper Cardi B said she is scared but excited about hosting for her first time when she presides over the American Music Awards on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-awards-american-music-cardi-b/its-going-to-be-scary-but-fun-cardi-b-on-hosting-american-music-awards-idUSKBN2I429M | 2021-11-22 |
| Economically the most advanced economies do not face much of a debt constraint right now said Jason Furman a Harvard University economics professor who has tried to reshape the debate about public debt to focus more on the servicing costs and less on the total amount | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters Huge spending by governments kept the world economy afloat during the pandemic as officials mobilized a fiscal response not seen since World War Two to bolster household incomes and give businesses a fighting chance to survive the health crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-economy-debt-climate-analysis/analysis-pandemic-debt-adds-to-challenge-of-funding-worlds-climate-goals-idUSKBN2I30FF | 2021-11-18 |
| In the face of these cost pressures and lasting market disruption it is increasingly important to monitor market behaviour and ensure transparency when it comes to setting rates fees and surcharges it said | Negative | LONDON Reuters A surge in container shipping rates poses a threat to the global economic recovery with small countries dependent on deliveries by sea expected to be hardest hit by a spike in import prices U.N. agency UNCTAD said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/supply-chain-shipping-unctad/shipping-rate-surge-threatens-global-economy-recovery-unctad-says-idUSKBN2I30G4 | 2021-11-18 |
| Waste exports to OECD countries would also face EU monitoring and Brussels could suspend them if after concerns are raised about such exports causing pollution in a certain country there is insufficient evidence that the country can sustainably manage them | Negative | BRUSSELS Reuters The European Commission on Wednesday proposed a revamp of EU rules on waste shipments to make it harder for member states to offload their trash into poorer countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-eu-environment-waste/eu-eyes-tighter-waste-rules-to-limit-countries-shipping-trash-abroad-idUSKBN2I217B | 2021-11-18 |
| Biden and Xi have not had a facetoface meeting since Biden became president and the last time they spoke it was via telephone in September | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping stressed their responsibility to the world to avoid conflict as the heads of the two top global economies gathered for hours of talks on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-china-biden-xi/biden-promises-candor-xi-greets-old-friend-in-u-s-china-talks-idUSKBN2I00TY | 2021-11-16 |
| Biden joked that Portman who is not standing for reelection and does not have to face critics within his own Republican Party is a hell of a good guy | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters President Joe Biden signed into law a 1 trillion infrastructure bill at a White House ceremony on Monday that drew Democrats and Republicans who pushed the legislation through a deeply divided U.S. Congress | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-infrastructure/biden-signs-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill-into-law-idUSKBN2I00ZT | 2021-11-16 |
| However Japanese firms still face risks from higher commodity costs and supply bottlenecks which threaten to undermine the economic outlook over the short to midterm | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japans economy contracted much faster than expected in the third quarter as global supply disruptions hit exports and business spending plans and fresh COVID19 cases soured the consumer mood | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/japan-economy-gdp/japans-economy-shrinks-more-than-expected-as-supply-shortages-hit-idUSKBN2HZ0PX | 2021-11-15 |
| In the face of such a situation it is fundamental that they receive protection | Positive | SAN FRANCISCO/MEXICO CITY Reuters Mexico is considering setting tougher entry requirements for Venezuelans partly in response to U.S. requests after a sharp rise in border arrests of Venezuelans fleeing their homeland according to three people familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-venezuela/exclusive-mexico-considers-tighter-entry-rules-for-venezuelans-after-u-s-requests-sources-idUSKBN2HX1GE | 2021-11-15 |
| He said the reason for Putins continued backing including in the face of mass protests that threatened to topple Lukashenko last year was fear of a revolution that could install another proWestern government next door | Negative | Reuters Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko has made a political art form of drawing on Kremlin support to keep himself in power for 27 years while seemingly giving little in return | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-belarus-dynamics-analysis/analysis-lukashenko-ties-fate-to-moscow-while-testing-putins-patience-idUSKBN2HX23J | 2021-11-15 |
| But stock prices will face a major crash only if the Federal Reserve turns out to be completely wrong in its assessment and is forced to raise interest rates rapidly | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Asian share prices advanced on Friday as a shock from a surprisingly strong U.S. inflation reading ebbed with investors hopeful that the worst price hikes could be soon over | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/asian-shares-advance-as-inflation-shock-fades-to-background-idUSKBN2HX05R | 2021-11-12 |
| Instead they presented a draft law on Monday that would amend existing legislation to allow for measures such as compulsory face masks and social distancing in public spaces to continue to be enforced until next March | Positive | BERLIN Reuters Germany reported a record 50196 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday the fourth day in a row it has posted a fresh daily high as a fourth wave of COVID19 infections sweeps the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/germany-reports-another-covid-19-record-50196-new-cases-idUSKBN2HW0J2 | 2021-11-11 |
| We still face challenges we have to tackle head on | Neutral | BALTIMORE Reuters President Joe Bidens first trip to celebrate a longsought congressional victory on infrastructure was clouded by new data showing inflation rose to a level not seen for more than 30 years | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-ports/biden-pledges-to-battle-too-high-prices-as-inflation-surges-idUSKBN2HV1FO | 2021-11-11 |
| TIM board members will face off this Thursday over plans outlined by Gubitosi to reorganise the group and extract more value from its assets including the key landline grid | Positive | MILAN Reuters Telecom Italias TIM secondlargest investor CDP doesnt want major management changes at the former phone monopoly as its top shareholder Vivendi calls into question the role of CEO Luigi Gubitosi three sources close to the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/telecom-it-cdp/italys-cdp-opposes-major-management-changes-in-tim-boardroom-row-sources-idUSKBN2HU2G6 | 2021-11-10 |
| Bolsonaro is expected to face Lula in the election next October although neither has officially declared his candidacy | Neutral | BRASILIA Reuters Brazils lower house of Congress approved a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that would allow farright President Jair Bolsonaro to spend an additional 92 billion reais 16 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/brazil-lower-house-approves-constitutional-amendment-allowing-bolsonaro-to-spend-more-idUSKBN2HU1MP | 2021-11-10 |
| Global average surface temperatures are already up about 1 | Neutral | GLASGOW Thomson Reuters Foundation An overarching goal for the COP26 U.N. summit of keeping alive a 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-climate-un-science-politics/analysis-dead-or-alive-cop26-climate-talks-strive-to-save-1-5c-warming-goal-idUSKBN2HU03F | 2021-11-09 |
| Those listed are subjected to stringent financial reporting requirements and obliged to preface anything they publish with a disclaimer stating they are foreign agents a term with negative connotations suggestive of spying | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters A top Russian human rights lawyer who defended the AntiCorruption Foundation of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny was added to the Justice Ministrys list of foreign agents on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-lawyer/russia-declares-rights-lawyer-who-defended-navalnys-group-foreign-agent-idUSKBN2HT2ER | 2021-11-09 |
| The congressional passage of a longdelayed U.S. 1 trillion infrastructure bill over the weekend has cheered investors who however face another test later in the week from a reading on U.S. inflation that may influence plans for tightening monetary policy | Positive | HONG KONG Nov 9 Reuters Asian shares followed Wall Street higher in early trade on Tuesday as the passage of a U.S. infrastructure bill boosted sentiment while oil prices gained on the outlook for energy demand in an expansive global economy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-stocks-extend-global-gains-ahead-of-u-s-inflation-test-idUSL8N2S003I | 2021-11-09 |
| The transport infrastructure funding was announced just weeks after Morrison adopted a net zero carbon emissions target by 2050 in the face of international criticism that the major coal and gas producer was not doing enough to address climate change | Negative | SYDNEY/MELBOURNE Reuters The Australian government on Tuesday pledged A178 million 132 million to ramp up the rollout of hydrogen refuelling and charging stations for electric vehicles but did not offer EV rebates or set targets to phase out petrol cars | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/australia-electric/australia-bumps-up-investment-in-ev-chargers-shuns-sales-targets-idUSKBN2HT2PG | 2021-11-09 |
| Perezs face has been on advertising hoardings around the city the man of the moment on his return as a winner for the first time and to a circuit that was unable to host a grand prix last year due to the COVID19 pandemic | Negative | Reuters Sergio Perez was living the dream on Sunday after becoming the first Mexican Formula One driver to stand on the podium at his home race | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-motor-f1-mexico/motor-racing-perez-lives-the-dream-on-home-mexico-city-podium-idUSKBN2HT05D | 2021-11-08 |
| The former premier whose own government was accused of sleaze said he would face a dilemma over whether to vote for Johnson at the next election | Negative | LONDON Reuters Former British Prime Minister John Major on Saturday attacked fellow Conservative Boris Johnsons handling of a corruption row saying the governments behaviour was arrogant broke the law and was politically corrupt | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-britain-politics-major/ex-british-pm-calls-actions-of-johnsons-government-politically-corrupt-idUSKBN2HR087 | 2021-11-06 |
| More than a million people face extreme hunger in the island nation that has produced less than 0 | Negative | GLASGOW Reuters As climate change triggers deadly heatwaves droughts and floods three U.N. agencies on Wednesday rolled out funding plans to improve weather forecasting in vulnerable countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-climate-un-finance-weather/climate-change-extremes-spur-u-n-plan-to-fund-weather-forecasting-idUSKBN2HO1HC | 2021-11-04 |
| Rate futures and bond markets on both sides of the Atlantic had been repricing for an earlier ratehike liftoff by the Fed and ECB over the last month in the face of an inflation environment that is not heeding to policymakers transitory mantra | Neutral | Reuters A rush of expectations that tightening signals by central banks in Canada and Australia would nudge the worlds biggest monetary policy actors to accelerate their own timelines for rate hikes ran into a wall of sorts on Wednesday with the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank saying not so fast | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-centralbanks/feds-powell-and-ecbs-lagarde-to-markets-hold-your-rate-hike-horses-idUSKBN2HP0BH | 2021-11-04 |
| In people from all cultures theres this fear of death but here you can see them celebrating that said Miguel Torres a tourist from Colombia whose face and lips were painted in deathly black and white | Positive | MEXICO CITY Reuters Foreign tourists and Mexicans taking part in Day of the Dead celebrations flocked to downtown Mexico City on Monday drawn by elaborate offerings to the departed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-dayofthedead-offerings/in-heart-of-mexico-city-tourists-embrace-day-of-the-dead-celebrations-idUSKBN2HN03O | 2021-11-02 |
| The pledges made so far would allow the planets average surface temperature to rise 2 | Positive | GLASGOW Reuters A crucial U.N. conference | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-climate-un/deliver-on-promises-developing-world-tells-rich-at-climate-talks-idUSKBN2HM1DJ | 2021-11-02 |
| ORYOL Russia Reuters Ambulance attendant Roman Stebakov has come facetoface with COVID19 many times but hed rather take his chances with the disease than get himself injected with Russias Sputnik V vaccine | Negative | ORYOL Russia Reuters Ambulance attendant Roman Stebakov has come facetoface with COVID19 many times but hed rather take his chances with the disease than get himself injected with Russias Sputnik V vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-oryol/russia-counts-cost-of-missteps-vaccine-refusals-as-covid-tide-keeps-rising-idUSKBN2HM2J4 | 2021-11-02 |
| com Inc and Facebook Inc by eliminating the complicated web of digital services taxes they face in many countries and could help boost support for the broader deal | Positive | DUBLIN Reuters U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she expected U.S. tech giants to broadly support the reallocation of taxing rights agreed to by nearly 140 countries as part of a broader deal on global taxes saying the impact on U.S. companies should be minor | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-treasury-yellen-interview/strong-tech-support-could-help-sell-congress-on-global-tax-rules-yellen-idUSKBN2HM1CZ | 2021-11-01 |
| With his Liberal Democratic Party LDP having maintained its singleparty majority in the powerful lower house Kishida will face less pressure to heed such calls as well as a proposal by coalition partner Komeito for blanket cash payouts to families with children aged 18 or lower analysts say | Negative | TOKYO Reuters The ruling partys solid victory in Japans parliamentary election on Sunday will likely take pressure off Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to inflate the size of a pandemicrelief stimulus package easing market fears of massive bond issuance | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics-economy/japan-ruling-partys-election-win-takes-pressure-off-pm-for-bigger-spending-idUSKBN2HM1F6 | 2021-11-01 |
| The reaction made clear the struggle that countries will face at COP26 as they negotiate divisive issues that have derailed past climate talks | Negative | LONDON Reuters At the U.N. climate conference expect one theme to drown out the cacophony of pledges from countries and companies around the world money | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/climate-un-money/climate-finance-could-make-or-break-the-cop26-summit-heres-why-idUSKBN2HM1GB | 2021-11-01 |
| Most of the mass of spectators lining Paseo de la Reforma boulevard wore protective face masks as they watched colorful floats bands and performers trundle down the street | Positive | MEXICO CITY Reuters Thousands of Mexicans crowded into the main avenue of Mexico City for a lively Day of the Dead parade on Sunday relishing the chance to mark the festive tradition after the coronavirus pandemic cast a thick pall over it last year | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-dayofthedead-parade/mexicans-return-to-day-of-the-dead-celebration-with-a-vengeance-idUSKBN2HM12N | 2021-11-01 |
| Japan has set a target of 2050 for becoming carbonneutral and Kishida believes in the face of considerable public opposition that nuclear energy should remain an option | Positive | TOKYO Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida invigorated by a surprisingly strong election victory signalled on Monday he would pursue defence policies aimed at deterring China address climate change and accelerate recovery from the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-japan-election/japan-pm-kishida-strengthened-by-election-win-lays-out-broad-policy-plans-idUSKBN2HM0Z3 | 2021-11-01 |
| Existing pledges to cut emissions would allow the planets average surface temperature to rise 2 | Positive | GLASGOW Reuters World leaders began arriving on Monday at a U.N. conference critical to averting the most disastrous effects of climate change their challenge made even more daunting by the failure of major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-climate-un/global-climate-talks-open-to-ever-more-daunting-challenge-idUSKBN2HM1DJ | 2021-11-01 |
| The U.S. official called Burhan the face of turning the clock back in Sudan and said Washington understood the skepticism of Sudans civilian leaders to work with him and the military but added that a full exclusion of the army was not realistic | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters The United States on Friday urged Sudans military coup leaders to refrain from violence against peaceful protesters ahead of planned demonstrations on Saturday opposing the takeover saying how the army reacts will be a litmus test | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics-usa/u-s-urges-sudan-military-to-refrain-from-violence-against-planned-protests-official-idUSKBN2HJ221 | 2021-10-30 |
| Hes the face of the betrayal of the aspirations of the Sudanese people a face of the hijacking of the civilian institutions the U.S. official said adding that the civilian leaders would be looking for assurances before bringing themselves to work with him — something he said they should do nevertheless | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters The United States on Friday urged Sudans military coup leaders to refrain from violence against peaceful protesters ahead of planned demonstrations on Saturday opposing the takeover saying how the army reacts will be a litmus test | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics-usa/u-s-urges-sudan-military-to-refrain-from-violence-against-planned-protests-official-idUSKBN2HJ221 | 2021-10-30 |
| There is absolutely no question that this is a reality we must face up to he told reporters as he flew into Rome for the G20 summit warning that living conditions could rapidly deteriorate without a collective change of course | Negative | ROME Reuters Global leaders must step up the fight against climate change British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Friday saying world civilisation could collapse as swiftly as the ancient Roman empire unless more is done | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-g20-summit/uks-johnson-warns-on-climate-recalls-fall-of-roman-empire-ahead-of-g20-summit-idUSKBN2HK02M | 2021-10-30 |
| It is the first time in two years that most leaders of the G20 have felt able to hold facetoface discussions as the COVID19 pandemic starts to recede in many countries | Positive | ROME Reuters Global leaders must step up the fight against climate change British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Friday saying world civilisation could collapse as swiftly as the ancient Roman empire unless more is done | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-g20-summit/uks-johnson-warns-on-climate-recalls-fall-of-roman-empire-ahead-of-g20-summit-idUSKBN2HK02M | 2021-10-30 |
| People found to be spreading fake news may face prison and any candidate involved could be banned from running Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said | Negative | SAO PAULO Reuters Brazils authorities will not tolerate the dissemination of fake news in next years elections a Supreme Court justice said on Thursday after an electoral court acquitted farright President Jair Bolsonaro of such a crime in the 2018 election | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-elections/electoral-court-clears-bolsonaro-judge-warns-of-fake-news-crackdown-in-2022-vote-idUSKBN2HI2L6 | 2021-10-29 |
| Still earning reports are also showing the largest U.S. manufacturers including General Motors General Electric 3M and Boeing face logistics headaches and higher costs due to global supply bottlenecks that are likely to persist into next year | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Global stocks eased from record peaks as a stark reminder of supply chain snags in corporate earnings reports stalled their rally while investors also looked to whether central banks may consider tightening monetary policy earlier than thought | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/stocks-get-reality-check-from-earnings-central-banks-in-focus-idUSKBN2HI078 | 2021-10-28 |
| It is unlikely Bolsonaro will face any formal charges as they would have to be brought by Brazils prosecutorgeneral whom the president appointed | Negative | BRASILIA Reuters A Brazilian Senate investigative committee approved a report on Tuesday that calls for President Jair Bolsonaro to be indicted for nine crimes related to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic including crimes against humanity | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-investigati/brazil-senate-committee-approves-report-calling-for-bolsonaro-to-be-indicted-idUSKBN2HH024 | 2021-10-27 |
| But the strategy particularly the more unconventional billionaires tax could face pushback from Democrats in the House of Representatives who favor more straightforward hikes in tax rates for corporations and wealthy individuals to pay for Bidens plan | Positive | Reuters Leading Democratic senators unveiled legislation on Tuesday to impose a 15 minimum tax on the most profitable U.S. corporations saying the levy would help finance President Joe Bidens social policy and climate change plans | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-biden-infrastructure-tax/senate-democrats-unveil-corporate-tax-for-biden-agenda-idUSKBN2HG2P0 | 2021-10-27 |
| Democrats had shifted their plans on taxation in the face of Sinemas opposition to raising the corporate tax rate and the top personal income tax rate to pay for the hefty spending plan which is a pillar of Bidens domestic agenda | Negative | Reuters Leading Democratic senators unveiled legislation on Tuesday to impose a 15 minimum tax on the most profitable U.S. corporations saying the levy would help finance President Joe Bidens social policy and climate change plans | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-biden-infrastructure-tax/senate-democrats-unveil-corporate-tax-for-biden-agenda-idUSKBN2HG2P0 | 2021-10-27 |
| Democrats were eyeing prompt passage of the infrastructure measure as a way to refresh many surface transportation programs that expire on Sunday | Positive | WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. congressional Democrats struggled on Tuesday to reach agreement on a massive bill to expand social programs and tackle climate change with disagreement on multiple major issues reducing the odds of a quick vote | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-infrastructure-manchin/major-issues-unresolved-as-democrats-in-u-s-congress-seek-deal-on-spending-bill-idUSKBN2HG1PN | 2021-10-27 |
| Reserve Bank of Australia RBA Deputy Governor Guy Debelle warned earlier this month that Australia could face rising costs of capital and divestment by offshore funds if it is not seen to be doing more to address climate change | Neutral | WELLINGTON Oct 26 Reuters New Zealands central bank said on Tuesday that it plans to reduce its exposure to bonds from countries like Australia that have a higher carbon footprint as it outlined action to manage the economic risks associated with climate change | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/newzealand-economy-rbnz/rbnz-looking-to-reduce-exposure-to-bonds-with-higher-carbon-footprint-idUSL4N2RM17L | 2021-10-26 |
| In a year when they face compounding crises health climate and debt support is more crucial than ever to sustain the transition he said | Negative | BARCELONA Thomson Reuters Foundation Wealthy nations that promised climate finance for vulnerable countries conceded on Monday that an annual 100billion goal due to be met from 2020 will not be reached until 2023 which campaigners warned could thwart progress at upcoming U.N. talks | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-climate-un-finance/analysis-shameful-failure-to-meet-climate-finance-goal-risks-undermining-cop26-talks-idUSKBN2HF1Y1 | 2021-10-26 |
| Some 300 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced annually according to the United Nations Environment Programme a problem that has been exacerbated by the pandemic which sparked a rush for plastic face shields gloves takeaway food containers and bubble wrap as online shopping surged | Negative | MANILA Reuters A group of recyclers in the Philippines is trying to ease the countrys worsening plastic waste crisis by turning bottles singleuse sachets and snack food wrappers that clog rivers and spoil beaches into building materials | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-philippines-environment-plastics/in-major-ocean-polluter-philippines-group-turns-plastic-waste-into-planks-idUSKBN2HF07M | 2021-10-25 |
| Democrats were forced to shift to the unorthodox plan in the face of opposition from one of their own senators Kyrsten Sinema to raising the corporate tax rate and the top personal income tax rate to pay for the hefty spending plan which is a pillar of Democratic President Joe Bidens domestic agenda | Negative | Reuters U.S. Democrats are expected to unveil a tax plan on Monday that would seek to raise hundreds of billions of dollars from the countrys roughly 700 billionaires to help pay for expanding the social safety net and tackling climate change | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-taxes-billionaire/with-corporate-tax-off-table-u-s-democrats-turn-to-billionaires-to-fund-spending-bill-idUSKBN2HF0AU | 2021-10-25 |
| On the surface it looks benign he said | Neutral | SINGAPORE Reuters Asian stocks eked small gains on Thursday but the upbeat mood that lifted the Dow Jones and bitcoin to records ebbed on fresh worries about Chinas property sector after an asset sale at embattled developer Evergrande collapsed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/stocks-shuffle-higher-with-a-wary-eye-on-evergrande-idUSKBN2HB085 | 2021-10-21 |
| It is highly unlikely that the farright politician will face trial on any such charges which would have to be brought by Brazils prosecutor general whom Bolsonaro appointed | Negative | BRASILIA Reuters Brazilian senators investigating the handling of the countrys COVID19 outbreak have dropped a recommendation from their draft report that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with genocide and homicide instead accusing him of crimes against humanity | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-bolsonaro/brazil-senators-drop-call-for-covid-19-homicide-charge-against-bolsonaro-idUSKBN2HA1JP | 2021-10-21 |
| But below the surface we are uncomfortable about a number of things he added chiefly the slowdown in Chinas economy seen in data earlier this week and concerns about potential fallout from Evergrandes troubles | Negative | SINGAPORE Reuters Asian stocks eked small gains on Thursday but the upbeat mood that lifted the Dow Jones and bitcoin to records ebbed on fresh worries about Chinas property sector after an asset sale at embattled developer Evergrande collapsed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/stocks-shuffle-higher-with-a-wary-eye-on-evergrande-idUSKBN2HB085 | 2021-10-21 |
| Besieged by illegal loggers cattle ranchers soy farmers and even gold miners the Xingu communities face growing degradation of their natural habitat and the challenge of preserving its rich biodiversity for future generations says Aritanas son and likely successor Tapi Yawalapiti | Negative | XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK Brazil Reuters When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-indigenous-kuarup-widerimage/wider-image-besieged-amazon-tribes-grant-rare-access-to-xingu-chiefs-funeral-rites-idUSKBN2HA1JJ | 2021-10-21 |
| The report isnt likely to alter that decision but it does expose the tensions Fed policymakers face as they move beyond the taper and begin contemplating when to raise rates | Neutral | Reuters U.S. employers reported significant increases in prices and wages even as economic growth decelerated to a modest to moderate pace in September and early October the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday in its latest compendium of reports about the economy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-fed-beigebook/fed-report-shows-wage-pressures-amid-modest-to-moderate-economic-growth-idUSKBN2HA2AN | 2021-10-21 |
| One boys face paint recalled Batmans nemesis the Joker and a political message was written across his chest Out with Bolsonaro | Negative | XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK Brazil Reuters When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-indigenous-kuarup-widerimage/wider-image-besieged-amazon-tribes-grant-rare-access-to-xingu-chiefs-funeral-rites-idUSKBN2HA1JJ | 2021-10-21 |
| On one hand ADCs argument that a ruling in Tokyo Kikais favour would fly in the face of shareholder equality is a strong one as the principle is enshrined in Japanese corporate law they say | Positive | TOKYO Reuters The fate of future hostile takeover bids in Japan could rest on an upcoming court ruling that will decide whether the countrys top maker of newspaper printing presses can move forward with a poison pill against an unwelcome shareholder | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/japan-m-a-analysis/analysis-a-court-battle-raises-the-question-how-far-will-japan-swallow-poison-pills-idUSKBN2HB0AS | 2021-10-21 |
| It is highly unlikely that he will face trial on any such charges which would have to be brought by Brazils prosecutor general whom Bolsonaro appointed | Negative | BRASILIA Reuters The senator leading a congressional probe into Brazils handling of the COVID19 pandemic has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with homicide for alleged government errors that led to the deaths of thousands | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-brazil-politics-bolsonaro/brazils-bolsonaro-should-face-homicide-charge-for-covid-19-errors-says-senate-report-idUSKBN2H92II | 2021-10-20 |
| JOHANNESBURG Reuters Africas fabled eastern glaciers will vanish in two decades 118 million poor people face drought floods or extreme heat and climate change could shrink the continents economy by 3 by midcentury the U.N. climate agency warned on Tuesday | Negative | JOHANNESBURG Reuters Africas fabled eastern glaciers will vanish in two decades 118 million poor people face drought floods or extreme heat and climate change could shrink the continents economy by 3 by midcentury the U.N. climate agency warned on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-climate-change-banks-africa/as-africas-glaciers-melt-millions-face-drought-and-floods-u-n-says-idUSKBN2H90JN | 2021-10-20 |
| People can be face to face in space but one of them is head up and the other is horizontal and the camera can be on a different plane and that transforms your consciousness completely he said | Neutral | MOSCOW Reuters Russian film director Klim Shipenko said on Tuesday he was up for making a movie on the moon or even Mars after returning from 12 days of shooting aboard the International Space Station that transformed his ideas about the possibilities of cinema | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-space-exploration-russia-movie/russian-space-movie-director-says-moon-or-mars-could-be-next-idUSKBN2H91AQ | 2021-10-20 |
| The recent probes have unnerved prodemocracy campaigners across the city leaving some to fear they face prosecution for acts they believed to be legal at the time | Negative | Removes repeated words from quote | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-hongkong-security-legal/court-rulings-free-hong-kong-police-to-probe-older-offences-under-security-law-idUSKBN2H903C | 2021-10-19 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Reuters A Brazilian Senate probe into the governments handling of the COVID19 pandemic will recommend in its final report due next week that President Jair Bolsonaro face 11 criminal charges the senator leading the inquiry said on Friday though it remains highly unlikely that he will face a trial on any such charges | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Reuters A Brazilian Senate probe into the governments handling of the COVID19 pandemic will recommend in its final report due next week that President Jair Bolsonaro face 11 criminal charges the senator leading the inquiry said on Friday though it remains highly unlikely that he will face a trial on any such charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-coronavirus/brazil-pandemic-probe-to-recommend-bolsonaro-face-11-criminal-charges-senator-says-idUSKBN2H52BR | 2021-10-19 |
| Russia could face 7 trillion roubles 97 billion in infrastructure damage by 2050 if the rate of warming continues said Mikhail Zheleznyak director of Yakutsks Melnikov Permafrost Institute | Negative | CHURAPCHA Russia Reuters The old airport in the Siberian settlement of Churapcha has been unusable for years its runway transformed into a swampy field of puffedup mounds and reliefs | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-climate-change-russia-permafrost/russias-remote-permafrost-thaws-threatening-homes-and-infrastructure-idUSKBN2H80GZ | 2021-10-19 |
| The Korean government urges Japans responsible people to face history with the inauguration of the new cabinet and to show humble reflection and genuine reflection on the past through action the spokesperson continued | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japans new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead for the autumn festival Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday prompting the South Korean government to express disappointment | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-yasukuni-south-korea/japans-new-pm-sends-offering-to-yasukuni-shrine-irking-south-korea-idUSKBN2H7036 | 2021-10-18 |
| The combined force would practice shooting at targets designed to imitate enemy surface ships and hold airdefence drills involving Russian SU30SM multifunctional fighter jets and helicopters the ministry said | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Russia and China held joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan on Friday and practised how to operate together and destroy floating enemy mines with artillery fire the Russian defence ministry said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-russia-china-drills/russia-and-china-hold-joint-naval-drills-in-sea-of-japan-idUSKBN2H50ZN | 2021-10-18 |
| But as regulations tightened again this year many of them have started to face a liquidity crunch which was then worsened by sharply weaker demand due to tighter restrictions on speculative purchases | Negative | BEIJING Reuters Chinas September new construction starts slumped for a sixth straight month the longest spate of monthly declines since 2015 as cashstrapped developers put a pause on projects in the wake of tighter regulations on borrowing | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-economy-property-investment/chinas-plunging-construction-starts-reminiscent-of-2015-downturn-idUSKBN2H806S | 2021-10-18 |
| Japanese companies also face rising raw material costs aggravated by a weaker yen that could erode margins | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japans economy likely grew at a slower pace than previously expected last quarter and faces ongoing risks from soaring raw material prices and coronaviruslinked production and supply disruptions a Reuters poll of economists showed on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/japan-economy-poll/japans-q3-growth-forecast-trimmed-further-on-covid-19-drag-reuters-poll-idUSKBN2H50AH | 2021-10-15 |
| We feel like were just scratching the surface as an industry and also as a company here at Dutchie and theres a lot of runway ahead of us said Lipson | Positive | Reuters Cannabis ecommerce platform Dutchie on Thursday said it raised 350 million in its latest funding round that valued the company at 3 | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/cannabis-dutchie-funding/cannabis-e-commerce-platform-dutchie-raises-350-million-valued-at-3-75-billion-idUSKBN2H40ZS | 2021-10-15 |
| Some retailers and facetoface servicesector firms were among the hardest hit by the pandemic | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japanese firms overwhelmingly want the government to draw up an extra budget of 90 billion or more to ease the pain caused by COVID19 a Reuters poll showed indicating support for new Prime Minister Fumio Kishidas additional stimulus plans | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/japan-companies-stimulus/japanese-companies-back-kishidas-plan-for-big-fiscal-stimulus-reuters-poll-idUSKBN2H32G5 | 2021-10-14 |
| Designed to operate in the face of potential terror acts the centre is estimated to have cost hundreds of millions of dollars | Positive | JERUSALEM Reuters Oracle opened the first of two planned public cloud centres in Israel on Wednesday enabling companies and other Israeli customers to keep their data on local servers rather than rely on other countries | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/oracle-israel-cloud/oracle-opens-israel-cloud-centre-to-withstand-rocket-attacks-idUSKBN2H310Q | 2021-10-14 |
| People who can prove they face persecution at home due to their race religion nationality social group or political opinions may be eligible for U.S. asylum | Negative | BELO HORIZONTE Brazil Reuters Record numbers of Brazilians have been arrested at the U.S. southern border this year part of the United States broader migration crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-immigration-brazil-insight/as-brazilians-flock-to-the-u-s-border-an-alleged-smuggler-cashes-in-idUSKBN2H20ZV | 2021-10-13 |
| BRUSSELS Reuters Nvidias 54 billion bid for British chip designer ARM is expected to face an extended EU antitrust investigation after concessions offered last week failed to address competition concerns three people familiar with the matter said | Negative | BRUSSELS Reuters Nvidias 54 billion bid for British chip designer ARM is expected to face an extended EU antitrust investigation after concessions offered last week failed to address competition concerns three people familiar with the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/arm-m-a-nvidia-eu/eu-to-investigate-nvidias-54-billion-arm-bid-after-remedies-fall-short-sources-idUSKBN2H20UN | 2021-10-13 |
| Italy which holds the rotating presidency of the G20 has worked hard to set up the meeting in the face of highly divergent views within the disparate group on how to deal with Afghanistan after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Kabul | Negative | ROME Reuters Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi will host a special summit of the Group of 20 major economies on Tuesday to discuss Afghanistan as worries grow about a looming humanitarian disaster following the Talibans return to power | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-g20-summit-afghanistan/humanitarian-crisis-in-focus-as-italy-hosts-g20-afghan-summit-idUSKBN2H2001 | 2021-10-12 |
| Migrants and refugees in Libya face detention and abuse and more than 5000 were arrested in a crackdown during the past week | Negative | TRIPOLI Reuters The U.N. refugee agency said it had recovered the bodies of 15 migrants and 177 survivors from two coastguard boats returning to Libya people who had sought to cross the Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-migration/un-says-15-dead-in-attempted-migrant-voyage-from-libya-idUSKBN2H124T | 2021-10-12 |
| WASHINGTON Reuters The United States said on Sunday the first facetoface meeting between senior U.S. and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was candid and professional and that the U.S. side reiterated that the Taliban would be judged on their actions not just their words | Positive | WASHINGTON Reuters The United States said on Sunday the first facetoface meeting between senior U.S. and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was candid and professional and that the U.S. side reiterated that the Taliban would be judged on their actions not just their words | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-afghanistan-conflict-usa/u-s-says-taliban-talks-in-doha-were-candid-and-professional-idUSKBN2H00D4 | 2021-10-11 |
| Peter Morey a professor in the University of Birminghams Department of English Literature singled out Gurnahs fearless understanding of the connections between people and places and how they change over time in the face of the boundaries and borders designed to keep them apart | Positive | STOCKHOLM Reuters Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee the awardgiving body said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nobel-prize-literature/tanzanian-novelist-gurnah-wins-2021-nobel-for-depicting-impact-of-colonialism-migration-idUSKBN2GX12N | 2021-10-08 |
| Under the tutelage of coach Guilherme Miranda she is learning fast and Miranda believes that even though she has yet to face an opponent she has the potential to go far | Negative | SAO PAULO Reuters When 13yearold Mariangela Pereira da Silva was accosted by a strange man near her home earlier this year she was frightened | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-boxing-girl/boxing-boxing-offers-escape-valve-for-favela-children-in-brazil-idUSKBN2GX1S2 | 2021-10-08 |
| Reports this week that UK households would face increases of more than 30 in winter energy bills underline that worry and make any parallel rise in loan and mortgage rates seem a brutal response bordering on overkill to many workers | Negative | The author is editoratlarge for finance and markets at Reuters News | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-sterling/column-rate-trap-boe-and-sterling-snared-by-rate-frenzy-mike-dolan-idUSL8N2B47TO | 2021-10-08 |
| Abbott who made the comments to President Tsai Ingwen at her office in Taipei is not visiting in any official capacity but his trip comes as Western democracies seek to support the island in the face of growing pressure from China which claims Taiwan as its own territory | Negative | TAIPEI Reuters Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday he was in Taiwan to help end its international isolation offering his support to the democratically run island even in the face of what he called Chinas challenges | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-taiwan-australia/former-australia-pm-abbott-says-in-taiwan-to-help-end-its-isolation-idUSKBN2GX089 | 2021-10-07 |
| This would be a catastrophic outcome she said adding the United States would likely face a financial crisis and could slip into a recession | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden piled the pressure on congressional Republicans to vote for a debt ceiling increase in a meeting with bank and business leaders at the White House on Wednesday saying their opposition would take America right to the brink | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-debt/biden-chides-dangerous-republicans-in-ceo-meeting-as-debt-limit-chaos-looms-idUSKBN2GW18J | 2021-10-07 |
| Even in the face of the growing skills gap the worldwide demand for their products has supercharged the battery makers expansion plans | Positive | SEOUL Reuters The South Korean battery giants powering many of the worlds electric vehicles face a skills shortage that could drag on the global race towards zeroemissions transport | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/southkkorea-batteries-talent/battery-giants-face-skills-gap-that-could-jam-electric-highway-idUSKBN2GU2FC | 2021-10-05 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Reuters Ford Motor Cos battery joint venture partner Koreas SK Innovation expects the U.S. vehicle industry to face a battery supply shortage until 2025 because of the long lead times to build production facilities top SK executives told Reuters | Positive | SAN FRANCISCO Reuters Ford Motor Cos battery joint venture partner Koreas SK Innovation expects the U.S. vehicle industry to face a battery supply shortage until 2025 because of the long lead times to build production facilities top SK executives told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/sk-innovation-battery/ford-jv-partner-sk-sees-u-s-battery-shortage-persisting-until-2025-idUSKBN2GU2EB | 2021-10-05 |
| A judge recommended in July that Shakira face trial over allegations that she failed to pay 14 | Negative | MADRID Reuters A Spanish administrative court has ordered tax authorities to reimburse Colombian singer Shakira court officials and lawyers said on Monday while a separate criminal lawsuit she faces over a 14 | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-spain-court-shakira-tax/spanish-court-backs-shakiras-tax-claim-criminal-case-still-pending-idUSKBN2GU106 | 2021-10-05 |
| Following Sugas decision to make way for a new face Kishida beat three contenders for the LDP leadership last week paving the way for parliament to formally elect him premier on Monday | Positive | TOKYO Reuters Japans new prime minister Fumio Kishida on Monday called a parliamentary election for Oct | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics/japans-new-pm-calls-oct-31-election-vows-to-fight-pandemic-idUSKBN2GT0OB | 2021-10-05 |
| SEOUL Reuters The South Korean battery giants powering many of the worlds electric vehicles face a skills shortage that could drag on the global race towards zeroemissions transport | Negative | SEOUL Reuters The South Korean battery giants powering many of the worlds electric vehicles face a skills shortage that could drag on the global race towards zeroemissions transport | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/southkkorea-batteries-talent/battery-giants-face-skills-gap-that-could-jam-electric-highway-idUSKBN2GU2FC | 2021-10-05 |
| Outgoing prime minister Yoshihide Suga enjoyed support ratings of about 70 soon after taking office about a year ago but was pummelled by criticism of his handling of the pandemic leading him to make way for a new face to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic Party LDP through the election | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japans incoming Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who will formally take office on Monday is set to dissolve parliament next week and call an election for Oct 31 public broadcaster NHK said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-japan-politics/in-surprise-move-incoming-japan-pm-to-call-oct-31-election-nhk-idUSKBN2GT0OB | 2021-10-04 |
| Jo warned the council could face consequences if it continues to breach the Norths sovereignty with the doubledealing stick and rely on the U.S.style brigandish way of thinking and judgment | Negative | SEOUL Reuters North Korea said on Sunday the United Nations Security Council applied double standards over military activities among U.N. member states state media KCNA said amid international criticism over its recent missile tests | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-northkorea-missiles/n-korea-accuses-u-n-of-double-standards-over-missile-tests-warns-of-consequences-idUSKBN2GT02Z | 2021-10-04 |
| A senior Tunisian politician told Reuters last week the new prime minister would face a daunting inbox as most government work had ground to a halt over the past two months and a vast array of files needed urgent attention | Negative | TUNIS Reuters President Kais Saied named a geologist with little government experience as Tunisias first woman prime minister on Wednesday amid a crisis following his seizure of powers and with public finances close to breaking point | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tunisia-politics/tunisian-leader-names-new-pm-with-little-experience-at-crisis-moment-idUSKBN2GP11E | 2021-09-30 |
| U.S. lawmakers continue to wrangle over funding the government but face a Friday deadline to prevent a shutdown approached something that also capped gains in U.S. equities overnight | Negative | HONG KONG Reuters Asian shares found some calm on Thursday following this weeks heavy Chinadriven losses although the dollar sat at a more than oneyear high against major peers upheld by lingering safehaven demand and expectations for tighter U.S. monetary policy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/asian-stocks-steady-as-calm-returns-but-jitters-keep-dollar-firm-idUSKBN2GQ06F | 2021-09-30 |
| If investing is often about climbing a wall of worry then market participants arguably face the equivalent of the Matterhorn right now but on Wednesday investors seemed to be undaunted said Russ Mould investment director at AJ Bell | Positive | Reuters European stocks rose on Wednesday after one of the worst market routs this year as AstraZeneca lifted healthcare stocks on a deal to buy a rare disease drugmaker while chip equipment producer ASM gained on an upbeat earnings forecast | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-stocks-rise-on-astrazeneca-asm-strength-idUSKBN2GP0MC | 2021-09-30 |
| Last week the central bank had revised up the islands annual growth outlook as strong exports bolstered a tradereliant economy that has boomed even in the face of local COVID19 cases which are now well under control | Positive | TAIPEI Reuters Taiwans economy is likely to grow more than 6 this year Finance Minister Su Jainrong said on Wednesday offering a forecast slightly more optimistic than the central banks outlook last week | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/taiwan-economy/taiwan-economy-likely-to-grow-above-6-this-year-finance-minister-says-idUSKBN2GP06B | 2021-09-29 |
| More prominent economists and women leaders came to Georgievas defense including Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University who wrote in the Financial Times that the allegation against Georgieva is venial on its face and that to oust her would be a dangerous and costly capitulation to antiBeijing hysteria | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters The top Democrat and Republican on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee have urged President Joe Biden to ensure full accountability over a World Bank datarigging controversy that has embroiled International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-imf-worldbank-georgieva/u-s-senators-call-for-full-accountability-in-world-bank-data-controversy-idUSKBN2GO02I | 2021-09-28 |
| Kelly his face shielded by a white mask hung his head as the jurys foreman after around nine hours of deliberations read out guilty on all nine charges | Negative | Reuters R. Kelly was convicted by a federal jury on Monday in his sex trafficking trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-people-rkelly-moments/five-key-moments-from-the-r-kelly-sex-abuse-trial-idUSKBN2GN25P | 2021-09-28 |
| Separately Milley could face intense questioning over an account in a new book alleging he bypassed civilian leaders to place secret calls to his Chinese counterpart over concerns about former President Donald Trump | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters President Joe Bidens top military leaders are expected to face some of the most contentious hearings in memory this week over the chaotic end to the war in Afghanistan which cost the lives of U.S. troops and civilians and left the Taliban back in power | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-military-afghanistan/pentagon-leaders-to-face-afghanistan-reckoning-in-congress-idUSKBN2GO0AO | 2021-09-28 |
| Taiwan this month proposed extra defence spending of almost 9 billion over the next five years including on new missiles as it warned of an urgent need to upgrade weapons in the face of a severe threat from giant neighbour China which claims Taiwan as its own territory | Negative | TAIPEI Reuters Taiwan needs to have longrange accurate weapons in order to properly deter a China that is rapidly developing its systems to attack the island Defence Minister Chiu Kuocheng said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-taiwan-defence/taiwan-says-needs-long-range-weapons-to-deter-china-idUSKBN2GN09T | 2021-09-27 |
| KUALA LUMPUR Thomson Reuters Foundation Children around the world will face a sharp jump in heatwaves floods and droughts in their lives compared to their grandparents researchers said on Monday with teenagers from Nepal to Australia urging leaders not to turn a blind eye | Positive | KUALA LUMPUR Thomson Reuters Foundation Children around the world will face a sharp jump in heatwaves floods and droughts in their lives compared to their grandparents researchers said on Monday with teenagers from Nepal to Australia urging leaders not to turn a blind eye | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-climate-change-youth-disaster-trfn/dark-future-climate-change-fuels-higher-heat-flood-threats-for-children-idUSKBN2GM0NA | 2021-09-27 |
| Tomorrow September 27 we will begin debate on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework on the Floor of the House and vote on it on Thursday September 30 the day on which the surface transportation authorization expires Pelosi said in a letter to Democrats that was released by her office | Positive | WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday set a vote on the 1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill for Thursday and voiced confidence it would pass | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-congress-debt-pelosi/pelosi-sets-thursday-vote-on-infrastructure-eyes-smaller-social-spending-bill-idUSKBN2GM0AQ | 2021-09-27 |
| Several accusers testified that Kelly sought complete control over his victims including by demanding they abide by strict rules or else face punishment and write apology letters designed to absolve him of blame | Negative | NEW YORK Reuters A jury considering whether R. Kelly ran an illegal decadeslong racketeering scheme targeting women and underage girls for sex ended its first day of deliberations on Friday without reaching a verdict on the R&B superstar | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-people-rkelly/r-kellys-fate-in-jurys-hands-in-sex-trafficking-trial-idUSKBN2GK1SM | 2021-09-27 |
| Underlining the dangers they face Panamanian authorities said on Friday they had found a skeleton and nine bodies of suspected migrants who drowned or died from heat stroke alongside rivers in Dariens region of EmberaWounaan | Negative | MONTERREY Mexico Reuters Many Haitians who are heading for the U.S. border as thousands of their compatriots were cleared out of a frontier camp are giving thought to finding work in Mexico if measures to curb entry to the United States stay tough | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico/haitian-migrants-on-the-move-weigh-jobs-in-mexico-after-clearout-idUSKBN2GL07M | 2021-09-27 |
| MOSCOW Reuters The top U.S. military officers from United States and Russia held six hours of talks in Helsinki on Wednesday in the first facetoface meeting between them since 2019 as both nations adjust to the U.S. pullout and Taliban takeover in Afghanistan | Positive | MOSCOW Reuters The top U.S. military officers from United States and Russia held six hours of talks in Helsinki on Wednesday in the first facetoface meeting between them since 2019 as both nations adjust to the U.S. pullout and Taliban takeover in Afghanistan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-military/u-s-russian-military-chiefs-meet-in-helsinki-for-six-hours-idUSKBN2GI0SO | 2021-09-23 |
| Speaking to Reuters from one of the companys restaurants before that vote Watanabes story epitomizes the challenges the new Japanese leader will face to help businesses recover from the pandemics bite | Positive | TOKYO Reuters Miki Watanabe the chief executive of Japanese pub chain Watami has urgent advice for the next prime minister provide fair compensation for restaurants impacted by the COVID19 restrictions on eateries | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/japan-politics-restaurant-int/japan-pub-chain-leader-urges-new-pm-to-help-eateries-hit-by-covid-19-idUSKBN2GJ01K | 2021-09-23 |
| If Republicans stick by their refusal to support the measure in the Senate Democrats will have to come up with a new strategy or quickly face the twin problems of a government in partial shutdown that is unable to pay its bills and the risk of a default for the first time in modern history | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday to fund the U.S. government through Dec | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-congress-debt/u-s-house-approves-bill-to-suspend-debt-limit-fund-government-idUSKBN2GH1CZ | 2021-09-22 |
| These are the conditions people face when they flee their countries often risking their lives to escape circumstances ranging from poverty to war | Negative | Reuters Cold hunger and danger | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-world-migrants-timeline-2021/timeline-he-wanted-to-die-rather-than-go-back-a-year-of-migration-idUSKBN2GH1UL | 2021-09-22 |
| Afghans who manage to make the weekslong journey through Iran on foot to the Turkish border face a threemetre high wall ditches or barbed wire as Turkish authorities step up efforts to block any refugee influx into the country | Negative | Reuters Cold hunger and danger | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-world-migrants-timeline-2021/timeline-he-wanted-to-die-rather-than-go-back-a-year-of-migration-idUSKBN2GH1UL | 2021-09-22 |
| Democrats also face looming October deadlines to fund the government and raise the federal debt ceiling | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters Senior Democrats said on Sunday that they will likely need to scale back President Joe Bidens 3 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-infrastructure-congress/senior-house-democrats-concede-likely-scale-back-of-3-5-trillion-biden-spending-bill-idUSKBN2GF0E6 | 2021-09-20 |
| All of us depend on digital trade yet British businesses face digital barriers in countries who take a protectionist approach Trevelyan will say in a virtual speech to London Tech Week according to advanced extracts released by her office | Negative | LONDON Reuters Britain will look to break down digital trade barriers to help its businesses export their services the countrys newly appointed trade minister AnneMarie Trevelyan will say on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-trade-digital/uk-seeks-to-break-down-digital-trade-barriers-says-minister-idUSKBN2GF0KU | 2021-09-20 |
| Analysts say the biggest problem is the central banks diminished credibility in the face of political interference leading to years of doubledigit price rises and little confidence that inflation will soon return to a 5 target | Negative | ISTANBUL Reuters Turkeys central bank has begun setting the stage for an interest rate cut long sought by President Tayyip Erdogan although most analysts dont think it will pull the trigger this week after inflation jumped and the lira took a slide | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-cenbank/erdogans-waning-patience-four-questions-for-turkeys-central-bank-idUSKBN2GG06P | 2021-09-20 |
| The LDPs image has been battered by public perceptions that Suga bungled the handling of the COVID19 pandemic and lawmakers are keen for a fresh face to lead them into a general election expected within two months | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Candidates vying to become Japans next prime minister promised to restore popular trust in the ruling party by tackling income disparity the coronavirus pandemic and climate change as they launched campaigns on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics/income-disparity-pandemic-in-focus-as-race-for-next-japan-premier-kicks-off-idUSKBN2GC27E | 2021-09-18 |
| We are currently encouraging schools to start a limited facetoface learning so that children will get back to school interact with their teachers and friends and have their spirit of learning rebuilt | Positive | JAKARTA/DENPASAR Reuters Ni Kadek Suriani was looking forward to starting her second year of junior high school last year before the coronavirus pandemic hit | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-educatio/indonesias-demographic-dividend-threatened-by-lengthy-covid-19-school-closures-idUSKBN2GD08H | 2021-09-17 |
| Without legal safeguards he said realtime face recognition systems like the one developed by Blue Line represent a systemic threat to privacy | Positive | ST. LOUIS Reuters When night fell a clerk at a bustling 24hour MotoMart flipped a switch from behind the counter | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-usa-biometrics-privacy/one-u-s-state-stands-out-in-restricting-corporate-use-of-biometrics-illinois-idUSKBN2GC119 | 2021-09-17 |
| Since face recognition has been installed there have been no more robberies he said | Positive | ST. LOUIS Reuters When night fell a clerk at a bustling 24hour MotoMart flipped a switch from behind the counter | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-usa-biometrics-privacy/one-u-s-state-stands-out-in-restricting-corporate-use-of-biometrics-illinois-idUSKBN2GC119 | 2021-09-17 |
| At the end of my summer break I fell awkwardly on a hard surface and have been in considerable pain and discomfort in my hip ever since John said in a statement on Twitter | Negative | LONDON Reuters Elton John has delayed his European Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour until 2023 due to hip problems | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-people-elton-john-tour/elton-john-delays-european-tour-due-to-hip-pain-idUSKBN2GC13X | 2021-09-17 |
| Afghanistans missions overseas face a period of prolonged limbo as countries decide whether to recognise the Taliban said Afzal Ashraf an international relations expert and visiting fellow at Britains University of Nottingham | Negative | Fixes typo in para 13 | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-afghanistan-conflict-ambassadors/afghan-envoys-marooned-abroad-after-talibans-sudden-return-idUSKBN2GC034 | 2021-09-16 |
| In the face of severe threats from the enemy the nations military is actively engaged in military building and preparation work and it is urgent to obtain mature and rapid mass production weapons and equipment in a short period of time | Negative | TAIPEI Reuters Taiwan proposed on Thursday extra defence spending of T240 billion 8 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-taiwan-defence/taiwan-plans-9-billion-boost-in-arms-spending-warns-of-severe-threat-idUSKBN2GC07D | 2021-09-16 |
| Reuters A month after seizing Kabul the Taliban face daunting problems as they seek to convert their lightning military victory into a durable peacetime government | Negative | Reuters A month after seizing Kabul the Taliban face daunting problems as they seek to convert their lightning military victory into a durable peacetime government | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-afghanistan-conflict-one-month/one-month-after-fall-of-kabul-economic-crisis-stalks-taliban-idUSKBN2GB03I | 2021-09-15 |
| Known for her heavy make up which ran down her teary face as she called on viewers to turn to Jesus and donate to the Bakkers causes Messner rebuilt her reputation through a documentary and reality show before her death in 2007 | Negative | TORONTO Reuters Actor Jessica Chastain takes on the role of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner in a new drama looking at the rise and fall of the late American televangelist | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-filmfestival-toronto-the-eyes-of-tamm/jessica-chastain-transforms-into-televangelist-tammy-faye-in-new-biopic-idUSKBN2G90SP | 2021-09-14 |
| TOKYO Reuters Japan needs to let its coast guard work smoothly with selfdefence forces in the face of assertiveness by giant neighbour China Fumio Kishida a contender to head the ruling party and so become the next prime minister said on Monday | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japan needs to let its coast guard work smoothly with selfdefence forces in the face of assertiveness by giant neighbour China Fumio Kishida a contender to head the ruling party and so become the next prime minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-japan-politics/japan-pm-contender-kishida-aims-to-boost-security-with-china-in-mind-idUSKBN2G904B | 2021-09-13 |
| An El Nino phenomenon is a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically happens every few years sometimes causing crop damage flash floods or fires | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japans weather bureau said on Friday there was a 70 chance of no El Nino or La Nina occurring from now through the northern hemisphere winter | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-weather-japan/japan-weather-bureau-says-70-chance-of-no-el-nino-la-nina-through-winter-idUSKBN2G60NY | 2021-09-11 |
| The decline which has outstripped a 2 fall in the price of Brent crude suggests some investors believe the U.S. economic recovery may have peaked in the face of a coronavirus resurgence leading them to focus on a looming unwind of the easy money policies that have helped the S&P more than double since its March 2020 lows | Negative | NEW YORK Reuters Energy stocks are becoming a popular bellwether for concerns over how deeply the Delta variant of the coronavirus is expected to impact the U.S. economy as the socalled reopening trade that boosted some parts of the market earlier this year continues to stumble | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-stocks-weekahead/investors-eye-wobbling-energy-sector-as-gauge-for-delta-fears-idUSKBN2G61X9 | 2021-09-11 |
| In the face of strong Republican opposition to the legislation Democrats in both houses of Congress aim to craft a bill that they can pass on their own | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters Two senior U.S. Senate Democrats on Friday unveiled a proposal to impose a 2 excise tax on corporate stock buybacks as lawmakers scrambled to find ways to finance President Joe Bidens 3 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-infrastructure-congress/u-s-senate-democrats-float-stock-buyback-tax-as-part-of-3-5-trillion-bill-idUSKBN2G61S8 | 2021-09-11 |
| A lot of gingham which just puts a smile on my face Im not a picnic kind of guy but I can have the fantasy | Positive | Reuters Designer Michael Kors took over New York Citys landmark Tavern on the Green in Central Park on Friday his first live runway show since the pandemic began | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-fashion-new-york-michael-kors/designer-michael-kors-holds-first-live-fashion-show-since-pandemic-idUSKBN2G623D | 2021-09-11 |
| MOSCOW Reuters The leaders of Russia and Belarus on Thursday agreed to set up a unified oil and gas market and to deepen economic integration in the face of what they regard as unjustified Western sanctions on both their economies | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters The leaders of Russia and Belarus on Thursday agreed to set up a unified oil and gas market and to deepen economic integration in the face of what they regard as unjustified Western sanctions on both their economies | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-belarus-putin-lukashenko/russia-and-belarus-agree-closer-energy-economic-integration-idUSKBN2G524A | 2021-09-10 |
| It could face a challenge trying to influence events in Guinea after struggling to impose its will in Mali also in West Africa where two coups since August 2020 have left military leader Assimi Goita in charge despite repeated ECOWAS warnings | Negative | CONAKRY Reuters Guineas military junta which seized power over the weekend said on Thursday that it has ordered the central bank and other banks to freeze all government accounts | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-guinea-security/guinea-junta-tells-central-bank-to-freeze-government-accounts-idUSKBN2G50UN | 2021-09-10 |
| 0 was relatively shallow just 12 miles below the surface which would have amplified the shaking effect | Negative | ACAPULCO Mexico Reuters Shaken residents slept in cars and on the streets of Mexicos famed Acapulco beach resort early on Wednesday as a series of strong aftershocks rippled through the city after a powerful earthquake that killed one man | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-quake-acapulco/strong-acapulco-quake-aftershocks-unnerve-mexican-resorts-residents-idUSKBN2G40RO | 2021-09-09 |
| Suga became the first leader to hold a facetoface White House summit with Biden in April underscoring Japans central role in U.S. efforts to face down an increasingly assertive China | Neutral | TOKYO Reuters Japans outgoing Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will visit Washington later this month for a fourway meeting of leaders from the United States Japan Australia and India Kyodo News reported on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-usa-japan/japans-suga-to-visit-u-s-for-quad-summit-with-australia-india-kyodo-idUSKBN2G41DE | 2021-09-09 |
| The EUs Artificial Intelligence Act on track to be passed next year would bar realtime face recognition in public spaces and require tech companies to vet highrisk applications such as those used in hiring credit scoring and law enforcement | Positive | SAN FRANCISCO Reuters In September last year Googles cloud unit looked into using artificial intelligence to help a financial firm decide whom to lend money to | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/tech-ethics-insight/money-mimicry-and-mind-control-big-tech-slams-ethics-brakes-on-ai-idUSKBN2G40WL | 2021-09-09 |
| 0 was relatively shallow only 12 miles below the surface which would have amplified the shaking effect | Negative | ACAPULCO Mexico Reuters A powerful earthquake struck southwestern Mexico near the beach resort of Acapulco on Tuesday night killing at least one man who was crushed by a falling post and causing rock falls and damaging buildings authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-quake/powerful-quake-shakes-southwest-mexico-one-death-reported-idUSKBN2G404S | 2021-09-08 |
| That underlined the tough road that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Biden will face to get Manchin and other Democratic moderates on board | Positive | WASHINGTON Reuters A U.S. House of Representatives committee this week will attempt to advance sweeping legislation to expand healthcare benefits for the elderly and other social services as part of Democrats 3 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-infrastructure/u-s-house-panel-sets-debate-on-its-portion-of-3-5-trillion-bill-idUSKBN2G31NX | 2021-09-08 |
| MEXICO CITY Reuters Mexican mining companies face major delays with environmental and water permits the head of sector chamber Camimex said on Monday as the metals sector seeks to boost operations in the one of the countrys biggest industries | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters Mexican mining companies face major delays with environmental and water permits the head of sector chamber Camimex said on Monday as the metals sector seeks to boost operations in the one of the countrys biggest industries | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-mining/mexican-miners-warn-of-major-delays-from-environment-water-rules-idUSKBN2G21HM | 2021-09-07 |
| Many pods have ripened said Boniface Ballou who farms near Soubre where 31 | Neutral | ABIDJAN Reuters Aboveaverage rains last week in most of Ivory Coasts cocoagrowing regions augur a larger betterquality OctobertoMarch main crop compared with last year farmers said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ivorycoast-cocoa-weather/heavy-rains-in-ivory-coast-augur-large-quality-cocoa-crop-farmers-idUSKBN2G21MP | 2021-09-07 |
| On the surface it looks simple the economy is back on track and even if the pandemic persists Europe has learned to live with it so the crisis — the ECBs casus belli — is over | Negative | FRANKFURT Reuters With the euro zone economy roaring back to life the European Central Bank will debate a cut in its stimulus on Thursday beginning a hardfought and lengthy discussion on how to dismantle the crisisfighting measures that have kept the bloc afloat | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/ecb-policy/life-after-the-ecb-the-tapering-debate-begins-idUSKBN2G20R4 | 2021-09-07 |
| Whichever course the chipmaker and its owners choose it will face stiff competition to capture more of a burgeoning market that is being driven by pandemic purchases of electronic devices from people spending more time at home and by longerterm demand from the advent of 5G connectivity artificial intelligence and an explosion in data storage | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japans trade ministry is ready to back Western Digitals bid to merge with memory chipmaker Kioxia provided control of cutting edge technology stays in Japan two sources with knowledge of the industry regulators internal discussions said | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/kioxia-holdings-m-a-western-digital-excl/exclusive-tokyo-ready-to-back-western-digital-kioxia-deal-if-key-tech-stays-in-japan-sources-idUSKBN2FZ0UW | 2021-09-05 |
| Sharon a 31yearold Honduran wearing a Minnie Mouse face mask said after spending a year living in Tapachula struggling to support her three children by selling gum she felt she had to make a bid to reach the United States | Negative | TAPACHULA Mexico Reuters A migrant caravan of around 400 people including many children set off from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula for the United States on Saturday just a couple of days after security and migration officials dispersed another large group | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico/new-migrant-caravan-sets-off-for-u-s-from-southern-mexico-idUSKBN2G00E3 | 2021-09-05 |
| Some employees fear they could face prosecution if they remain in Russia he said | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters The editorinchief of a Russian news outlet designated a foreign agent after it investigated the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny has accused the Russian state of destroying the media | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-election-media/russian-editor-decries-destruction-of-media-before-election-idUSKBN2FY0NN | 2021-09-03 |
| show the world what Palestinian children face on a daily basis Jihad who lives in the village of Nabi Salih in the Israelioccupied West Bank told Jolie and other young activists in a video call attended by Reuters where they discussed their campaign work | Negative | Reuters Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie says she hopes to empower children around the world with tools to fight back for their rights with a book she has written with Amnesty International | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-books-angelina-jolie-child-rights/angelina-jolie-wants-kids-to-fight-back-with-new-child-rights-book-idUSKBN2FX4H6 | 2021-09-02 |
| It is the first such curb by a major economy on the likes of Apple Inc and Alphabet Incs Google which face global criticism for requiring the use of proprietary payment systems that charge commissions of up to 30 | Negative | SEOUL Reuters South Koreas parliament on Tuesday approved a bill that bans major app store operators such as Google and Apple from forcing software developers to use their payment systems effectively stopping them from charging commissions on inapp purchases | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/southkorea-antitrust-tech/s-koreas-parliament-passes-bill-to-curb-google-apple-commission-dominance-idUSKBN2FW0UC | 2021-09-01 |
| While Suga said he had no such plan few investors took his comments at face value given traditional understandings that prime ministers are allowed to lie when it comes to dissolving the parliament | Negative | TOKYO Sept 1 Reuters Japanese shares jumped on Wednesday with the Nikkei hitting a 11/2month high as investors bet Prime Minister Yoshihide Sugas manoeuvring might help restore political stability | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-close/nikkei-rises-sharply-on-hopes-sugas-gambit-will-ease-political-worries-idUSL1N2Q30C4 | 2021-09-01 |
| But the South Korean move raises the stakes for Apple and Google who face similar legislation in the United States that was introduced earlier this month by a bipartisan trio of senators | Negative | SEOUL Reuters South Koreas parliament on Tuesday approved a bill that bans major app store operators such as Google and Apple from forcing software developers to use their payment systems effectively stopping them from charging commissions on inapp purchases | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/southkorea-antitrust-tech/s-koreas-parliament-passes-bill-to-curb-google-apple-commission-dominance-idUSKBN2FW0UC | 2021-09-01 |
| More importantly even if the two sides face possible pressure from China both sides can promise to express their strong willingness and hope that such a dialogue will continue | Positive | TAIPEI/TOKYO Reuters Taiwan and Japans ruling parties discussed how to handle the rising challenge they both face from their neighbour China as well as possible military exchanges during a virtual meeting that Beijing condemned as an affront to Chinese sovereignty | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-taiwan-japan/taiwan-japan-ruling-parties-discuss-china-military-cooperation-idUSKBN2FS0BW | 2021-08-27 |
| Some banks have begun to trim their forecasts for Treasury yields in the face of data showing weaker economic growth and signs that a recent surge in inflation may be less sustainable than previously believed | Negative | NEW YORK Aug 27 Reuters With the Federal Reserves central bank symposium at Jackson Hole Wyoming kicking off on Friday investors are taking stock of the various factors that can influence the trajectory of Treasury yields for the rest of 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-markets-bonds/graphic-four-factors-that-can-sway-bond-yields-in-2021-idUSL4N2PX434 | 2021-08-27 |
| Briefing reporters on their first facetoface talks a senior U.S. official said Since the last administration left the Iran nuclear deal Irans nuclear program has just dramatically broken out of the box and its accelerating from week to week | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters President Joe Biden will tell Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House on Thursday that Washington shares Israels concern that Iran has accelerated its nuclear program but remains committed for now to diplomacy with Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-israel/biden-to-tell-israel-pm-he-shares-alarm-over-iran-but-sticking-to-nuclear-diplomacy-idUSKBN2FQ1YP | 2021-08-26 |
| If the decision on Wednesday finds in favor of the Xokleng over 800 families of smallholdings face chaos and no future said Tarcisio Boeing 65 who farms 50 hectares that has been in his family of German descent for over a century | Neutral | JOSE BOITEAUX Brazil Reuters Pushed into a degraded corner of their ancestral lands the Xokleng people of southern Brazil anxiously await a Supreme Court ruling that could restore territory they lost decades ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-indigenous-court-widerimage/brazils-indigenous-rights-hinge-on-one-tribes-legal-battle-idUSKBN2FP17Q | 2021-08-25 |
| Sugas administration has seen support plunge over its handling of the COVID19 pandemic leading to calls within the party for it to pick a new face as leader ahead of a general election that must be held by October | Negative | TOKYO Reuters An influential member of Japans ruling party said on Tuesday he still backed the reappointment of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as party leader a post that ensures he would remain prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics/japan-ldp-executive-nikai-says-he-backs-pm-suga-for-party-chief-idUSKBN2FP049 | 2021-08-24 |
| Biden will face pressure from other leaders to extend the Aug | Negative | KABUL/WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden is set to come under pressure at a G7 meeting on Tuesday to seek more time to evacuate thousands of people hoping to flee from Afghanistan as fears grow that time for the massive operation is running out | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-afghanistan-conflict/g7-to-meet-on-afghan-deadline-evacuation-put-on-war-footing-idUSKBN2FP06G | 2021-08-24 |
| We ought to take at some level of face value the statements that are coming out of Taliban leadership Runde of CSIS argues | Neutral | WASHINGTON Reuters As foreign governments aid institutions and companies scramble to evacuate staff from Afghanistan a crucial question is emerging should they engage with the ruling Taliban or abandon years of investment in the country and 38 million Afghans | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-afghanistan-conflict-engagement/taliban-rule-presents-aid-agencies-with-moral-fiscal-dilemma-idUSKBN2FP09C | 2021-08-24 |
| Chang who denies wrongdoing and 19 others including state security officials and a former presidents son face charges including blackmail and embezzlement for their alleged roles in the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars in governmentbacked loans | Negative | MAPUTO Reuters South Africa will extradite former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang to his home country its justice department said on Monday where a criminal trial over the 2 billion debt scandal that crashed its economy has now begun | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mozambique-debt/s-africa-to-extradite-ex-mozambique-minister-for-debt-scandal-trial-idUSKBN2FO1GL | 2021-08-24 |
| He can either be reelected uncontested or face a party vote if other candidates emerge to challenge him for the job | Neutral | Corrects Sunday story to clarify Okonogi was not incumbent | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics-election/exit-polls-show-ally-of-japans-suga-losing-yokohama-election-nhk-says-idUSKBN2FN01I | 2021-08-23 |
| Leaders of the Taliban who have sought to show a more moderate face since capturing Kabul have begun talks on forming a government | Positive | KABUL/WASHINGTON Reuters A firefight broke out between unidentified gunmen Western security forces and Afghan guards at the North Gate of Kabul airport on Monday Germanys armed forces said as thousands of Afghans and foreigners thronged the airport seeking to flee Taliban rule | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-afghanistan-conflict/germany-says-firefight-involving-western-forces-erupts-at-kabul-airport-idUSKBN2FO0CM | 2021-08-23 |
| Sugas administration has seen support ratings plunge over its the handling of the COVID19 pandemic heightening calls within the LDP to pick a new face in the party leadership race ahead of a general election that must be held by Oct | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japans former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is likely to run in the ruling partys leadership race when incumbent Yoshihide Sugas current term ends in September the Sankei newspaper reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics-ldp/japan-ex-foreign-minister-kishida-likely-to-run-in-ldp-race-sankei-idUSKBN2FO007 | 2021-08-23 |
| New Zealands decision on Wednesday to hold fire on a highlyanticipated rate hike is a reminder of the challenges major central banks face in their bid to step away from emergency stimulus while the coronavirus remains a threat to growth | Negative | A look at the day ahead from Tom Arnold | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-markets-europe-view/marketmind-rate-hike-not-yet-says-new-zealand-idUSKBN2FJ0JU | 2021-08-18 |
| KUALA LUMPUR Reuters Malaysias king will name a new prime minister as soon as possible but the appointee will have to face a confidence vote in parliament to prove his majority the palace said in a statement on Wednesday | Positive | KUALA LUMPUR Reuters Malaysias king will name a new prime minister as soon as possible but the appointee will have to face a confidence vote in parliament to prove his majority the palace said in a statement on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-malaysia-politics/malaysias-king-wants-new-premier-to-face-confidence-vote-idUSKBN2FJ05J | 2021-08-18 |
| However prolonged coronavirus curbs on bars restaurants and other facetoface service sector businesses cloud the outlook piling pressure on Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to deploy another big stimulus package | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japans exports marked a fifth straight month of doubledigit growth in July driven by U.S.bound shipments of automobiles in a positive sign for a tradeled economy although a key gauge of capital spending fell for the first time in four months | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-economy-trade/japans-exports-extend-gains-machinery-orders-fall-amid-fragile-recovery-idUSKBN2FJ017 | 2021-08-18 |
| We learn a lot from that in terms of how to build robots that can survive falling on their face and getting back up and doing it again and we also learn a lot about the behavior the control the thing that puts one foot in front of the other Stephens said | Positive | Reuters Boston Dynamics humanoid robot Atlas has been showing off its new skill parkour or free running atop and over obstacles | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-tech-robots-boston-dynamics-atlas/boston-dynamics-backflipping-robot-shows-off-new-parkour-routine-idUSKBN2FI1UP | 2021-08-18 |
| He also warned other companies that they could also face scrutiny if they did not improve their practices | Negative | SILAO Mexico Reuters General Motors employee Mari says that for the past decade she has felt powerless to demand higher pay at the plant in central Mexico that cranks out hundreds of thousands of profitable pickup trucks annually | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trade-mexico-gm/gm-workers-historic-vote-in-mexico-tests-new-trade-deal-idUSKBN2FI1QY | 2021-08-18 |
| With social media we are better informed but we also face a lot of false information and myths she said adding that once false information had gone viral it was almost impossible to counteract | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters As the Delta variant of the COVID virus sweeps through Mexicos cities more adults in their 30s and 40s are ending up in the hospital with polls showing vaccine hesitancy is rising in younger age groups | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-antivaxers/vaccine-hesitancy-reaches-mexicos-youth-along-with-delta-variant-idUSKBN2FH0ZI | 2021-08-17 |
| He warned Taliban leaders they would face devastating force should they interfere with the U.S. pullout | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters President Joe Biden said on Monday he stood squarely behind his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan despite searing images of chaos in Kabul that exposed the limits of U.S. power and plunged him into the worst crisis of his presidency | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-biden-afghanistan/biden-defends-afghanistan-decision-blames-afghan-armys-unwillingness-to-fight-idUSKBN2FH27J | 2021-08-17 |
| In April the Moscow Arbitration Court said Google must restore Tsargrads account or face a daily 100000 rouble 1363 fine which would double each week that Google failed to comply | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Tsargrad TV a news channel owned by a sanctioned Russian businessman said it had abandoned talks with Google to have its YouTube account unblocked and on Monday accused the U.S. group of dragging its feet in negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-google-youtube/russian-tv-channel-ends-talks-with-google-over-youtube-block-idUSKBN2FH14F | 2021-08-17 |
| Japan will continue to face conditions in which a largescale disaster could occur at anytime anywhere Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said at a ministerial meeting on Sunday | Negative | TAKEO Japan Reuters Torrential rain lashed much of Japan on Sunday flooding roads and buildings in the western part of the country while three people were feared dead after a landslide in central Nagano prefecture | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-floods/torrential-rains-lash-wide-areas-of-japan-three-feared-dead-after-landslide-idUSKBN2FG01X | 2021-08-15 |
| Now Powell has the arduous task of making sure he and his colleagues hold true to that commitment in the face of what are to some of them uncomfortably high inflation readings | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON Reuters In his nearly six years on the Federal Reserves board of governors before becoming its chair Jerome Powell never once cast a dissenting vote on monetary policy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-disagreement-analysis/analysis-as-fed-shifts-gears-shaping-consensus-gets-trickier-for-powell-idUSKBN2FE10I | 2021-08-14 |
| He wore a face mask and his face could barely be seen | Neutral | MOSCOW Reuters A Russian court on Thursday ordered a 73yearold leading specialist in hypersonic technology to be held in custody for two months on suspicion of state treason the latest in a series of such cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-defence-treason/russia-arrests-top-hypersonic-research-scientist-in-treason-case-idUSKBN2FD12N | 2021-08-13 |
| Those granted exceptions would be required to wear face masks and be tested twice weekly | Neutral | Reuters U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday denied a bid by students at Indiana University to block the schools requirement that they be vaccinated against COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-vaccine/students-cant-block-indiana-university-vaccine-mandate-u-s-supreme-courts-barrett-idUSKBN2FD27Z | 2021-08-13 |
| This film attempts to create a portrait of the future that acknowledges the difficulties we might face but also acknowledges the hope that exists for us to band together and create the kind of world that wed like to live in | Positive | LONDON Reuters He may be a Hollywood superstar but Hugh Jackman says he could not believe his latest leading role was written specifically for him | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-film-reminiscence-premiere/hugh-jackman-chases-memories-in-submerged-miami-in-reminiscence-idUSKBN2FC2JK | 2021-08-13 |
| The thick fog may have caused the pilot to land on the surface of the water thinking it was land the TASS news agency cited a police source as saying | Neutral | MOSCOW Reuters Eight people were feared dead after a helicopter carrying 16 people most of them tourists crashed in a lake on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russias Far East on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-helicopter/eight-feared-dead-in-helicopter-crash-in-russias-far-east-idUSKBN2FD01F | 2021-08-13 |
| He Menapal was a young man who stood like a mountain in the face of enemy propaganda and who was always a major supporter of the Afghan regime said Mirwais Stanikzai an Interior Ministry spokesperson | Negative | KABUL Reuters Taliban insurgents captured an Afghan provincial capital and killed the governments senior media officer in Kabul on Friday amid a deteriorating security situation as U.S. and other foreign troops withdraw | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-afghanistan-conflict/resurgent-taliban-take-provincial-capital-kill-afghan-govt-spokesman-idUSKBN2F712F | 2021-08-07 |
| This proposed legislation is a gross violation of the human rights of Ghanas lesbian gay bisexual and transgender community who already face high levels of violence abuse stigma and discrimination said Patrick Brenny who runs UNAIDS programmes across west and central Africa | Negative | Clarifies reference in para 21 to countries like Ghana | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ghana-lgbt-lawmaking/ghana-lgbt-bill-would-threaten-fight-on-hiv-aids-says-unaids-idUSKBN2F5220 | 2021-08-05 |
| I try to address situations or problems that face everybody in the world but because I came from a place that has been cursed with so many wars and conflicts I try to say that from my perspective from my place from Gaza said ElJaru a lawyer by profession | Negative | GAZA Reuters An accountant two lawyers an agronomist and a Swiss humanitarian worker have formed Gazas first rock band giving voice in English to the pain of war in the Palestinian territory | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-palestinians-gaza-music/well-scream-our-pain-gazas-first-rock-band-osprey-v-takes-wing-idUSKBN2F50YI | 2021-08-05 |
| All the telltale crisis signs are there bonds at nearly half their face value debttoGDP levels above 100 over 80 of government revenues being spent on interest payments alone and barely enough reserves to cover a few months of spending | Negative | LONDON Reuters Sri Lanka paid a 1 billion bond last week but the alarming state of its finances suggests it may have been just another step towards its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-sri-lanka-debt-payment-analysis/analysis-debt-hobbled-sri-lanka-risks-running-out-of-options-idUSKBN2F408Q | 2021-08-03 |
| SYDNEY Aug 2 Reuters Asian shares face another tough week as Beijings regulatory crackdown fans fears about Chinas economy though upbeat economic data in the United States and Europe and solid corporate earnings put a floor under their markets | Negative | Nikkei edges off 7mth lows wary on China markets | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-shares-weighed-down-by-china-worries-as-u-s-earnings-shine-idUSL4N2P902B | 2021-08-02 |
| The statute of limitations has expired for some charges that the expresidents could potentially face and the referendum could lead to the creation of a truth commission rather than legal action Campos said | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters Mexicans voted on Sunday on whether to investigate five former leaders in a referendum championed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador amid criticism that the poll is a political stunt and with early indications that turnout was low | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexico-holds-referendum-on-whether-to-probe-ex-presidents-idUSKBN2F214B | 2021-08-02 |
| The Netherlands who beat Canada 1612 will face Hungary in the last quarterfinal pairing with all the matches scheduled to take place on Tuesday | Neutral | TOKYO Reuters Olympic champions the United States were confirmed as Group B winners of the womens Olympic water polo competition at Tatsumi Water Polo Centre on Sunday and will take on Canada in the quarterfinals | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-olympics-2020-wpo/olympics-water-polo-favourites-u-s-meet-canada-in-quarters-spain-face-china-test-idUSKBN2F219L | 2021-08-02 |
| We knew we would face either Hungary or the U.S. in the quarterfinals so weve been preparing for both of them | Neutral | TOKYO Reuters Olympic champions the United States were confirmed as Group B winners of the womens Olympic water polo competition at Tatsumi Water Polo Centre on Sunday and will take on Canada in the quarterfinals | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-olympics-2020-wpo/olympics-water-polo-favourites-u-s-meet-canada-in-quarters-spain-face-china-test-idUSKBN2F219L | 2021-08-02 |
| We are able to face all challenges with our capabilities with help of our friends but let us rely above all on ourselves and we can achieve results that many people do not imagine Saied added | Positive | TUNIS Reuters Tunisian President Kais Saied called on banks on Saturday to reduce interest rates saying the measure was needed to help improve social and economic conditions in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tunisia-economy-banks/tunisian-president-calls-on-banks-to-reduce-interest-rates-idUSKBN2F10MG | 2021-08-01 |
| On Tuesday they will face Jamaicas Natoya Goule the 2019 PanAmerican gold medallist who got through to the final with another confident performance in the qualification rounds to progress with a time of 159 | Positive | TOKYO Reuters The United States hopes of a first gold medal in more than half a century in the 800 metres got a boost on Saturday when 19year old Athing Mu won her semifinal race with a time of one minute and 58 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-olympics-2020-ath-mu/olympics-athletics-americas-mu-through-to-800m-final-keeping-alive-quest-for-gold-idUSKBN2F10GX | 2021-08-01 |
| The company also continues to face pressure from global lawmakers and regulators including from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission which has until Aug | Negative | Reuters Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it expects revenue growth to decelerate significantly sending the social media giants shares down 3 | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-facebook-results/facebooks-slowdown-warning-hangs-over-strong-ad-sales-while-zuckerberg-talks-metaverse-idUSKBN2EY2RA | 2021-07-29 |
| They hugged before taking off the protective face masks they were wearing because of the COVID19 pandemic and smiled for the cameras while holding hands | Positive | ABIDJAN Reuters Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and longtime rival Laurent Gbagbo hugged on Tuesday at their first meeting in over a decade part of efforts to ease political tensions in the West African country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ivorycoast-politics/happy-to-see-you-ivory-coast-political-rivals-hug-in-reconciliation-push-idUSKBN2EX2LI | 2021-07-28 |
| ShinEtsu Chemical dipped despite fairly upbeat earnings while Apple suppliers slipped following the U.S. tech giants results signalling some growth stocks could face hurdles as the earnings season comes into a full swing | Negative | TOKYO July 28 Reuters The Nikkei fell to near a sixmonth low on Wednesday as a retreat in Wall Street and concerns about rising coronavirus cases soured sentiment ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserves policy meeting | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-slips-on-softer-wall-street-record-virus-cases-in-tokyo-idUSL1N2P4054 | 2021-07-28 |
| TOKYO Reuters New Zealand boxer David Nyika did not face much trouble on his way to a 50 victory against Youness Baalla in his Olympics heavyweight debut on Tuesday other than having to contend with an attempted bite from his Moroccan opponent | Neutral | TOKYO Reuters New Zealand boxer David Nyika did not face much trouble on his way to a 50 victory against Youness Baalla in his Olympics heavyweight debut on Tuesday other than having to contend with an attempted bite from his Moroccan opponent | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-olympics-2020-box/olympics-boxing-new-zealands-nyika-bitten-but-not-beaten-on-games-debut-idUSKBN2EX0GB | 2021-07-27 |
| Cuban families should also face fewer restrictions on receiving remittances from those who live in the United States or any other country Lopez Obrador added | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that he thinks U.S. President Joe Biden must make a decision about the embargo against Cuba amid the biggest unrest in the Caribbean nation in decades | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-usa-cuba/mexican-president-says-biden-must-make-decision-on-cuba-embargo-idUSKBN2EW1RE | 2021-07-27 |
| The dryness of the air and the persistence of cold high pressure at the surface will maximize the ability to produce damaging cold he added | Negative | SAO PAULO/NEW YORK Reuters A new polar air mass is set to move over Brazils agricultural areas this week threatening further damage to coffee and sugar cane crops already hurt by strong frosts last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-coffee-sugar-weather/brazils-coffee-sugar-crops-threatened-by-more-frigid-temperatures-idUSKBN2EW1W2 | 2021-07-27 |
| U.S.China relations are in a standstill and face serious difficulties Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng was quoted as saying during the meeting by state television | Negative | BEIJING Reuters China blamed the United States on Monday for a stalemate in twoway ties accusing it of creating an imaginary enemy and setting a confrontational tone during a meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-china-diplomacy-meeting/china-blames-u-s-for-stalemate-in-ties-as-talks-begin-idUSKBN2EW05S | 2021-07-26 |
| Indeed below the surface stock performance indicates some doubts about economic strength | Negative | NEW YORK Reuters The rally on Wall Street faces a fresh test next week with a flood of earnings reports from major U.S. companies including the tech and internet behemoths that have recently retaken leadership of the market | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-stocks-weekahead/big-tech-companies-retake-market-reins-with-earnings-on-tap-idUSKBN2ET210 | 2021-07-24 |
| Among the Clipper missions objectives are to produce highresolution images of Europas surface determine its composition look for signs of geologic activity measure the thickness of its icy shell and determine the depth and salinity of its ocean NASA said | Positive | LOS ANGELES Reuters Elon Musks private rocket company SpaceX was awarded a 178 million launch services contract for NASAs first mission focusing on Jupiters icy moon Europa and whether it may host conditions suitable for life the space agency said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-space-exploration-europa/spacex-lands-nasa-launch-contract-for-mission-to-jupiters-moon-europa-idUSKBN2EU02Z | 2021-07-24 |
| Fewer than half of the stocks in the S&P 500 recently traded above their 50day moving averages even as the index has been at or near new highs compared to over 90 in April a sign that what is happening beneath the surface is at odds with the picture of strength that is portrayed if one just looks at the popular averages according to Willie Delwiche an investment strategist with market research firm All Star Charts | Positive | NEW YORK Reuters The rally on Wall Street faces a fresh test next week with a flood of earnings reports from major U.S. companies including the tech and internet behemoths that have recently retaken leadership of the market | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-stocks-weekahead/big-tech-companies-retake-market-reins-with-earnings-on-tap-idUSKBN2ET210 | 2021-07-24 |
| HONG KONG Reuters Four staff members from the nowclosed prodemocracy Apple Daily newspaper are set to appear in a Hong Kong court on Thursday to face charges of colluding with foreign forces under a national security law that has intensified fears over media freedoms | Negative | HONG KONG Reuters Four staff members from the nowclosed prodemocracy Apple Daily newspaper are set to appear in a Hong Kong court on Thursday to face charges of colluding with foreign forces under a national security law that has intensified fears over media freedoms | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-hongkong-security-court/four-apple-daily-staff-due-in-hong-kong-court-on-national-security-charges-idUSKBN2ES037 | 2021-07-22 |
| Some 60 Japanese corporations that have paid more than 3 billion for sponsorship rights to the postponed 2020 Olympics now face a dilemma over whether to tie their brands to an event that has so far failed to win strong public backing | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Tokyo 2020 sponsor Toyota will not run Olympicsrelated TV commercials in Japan amid lacklustre public support for the Olympics with twothirds of Japanese doubting organisers can keep the Games safe during the COVID19 pandemic according to a local media poll | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-olympics-2020/olympic-sponsor-toyota-passes-on-games-tv-commercials-in-japan-amid-lacklustre-support-there-idUSKBN2EP01S | 2021-07-20 |
| SAO PAULO/BRASILIA Reuters Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday his condition had improved making him less likely to face surgery for an obstructed intestine linked to a 2018 stabbing and that he might leave the hospital on Friday | Negative | SAO PAULO/BRASILIA Reuters Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday his condition had improved making him less likely to face surgery for an obstructed intestine linked to a 2018 stabbing and that he might leave the hospital on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-bolsonaro/brazils-bolsonaro-says-he-has-improved-could-leave-hospital-on-friday-idUSKBN2EL1GL | 2021-07-16 |
| The advisory said companies face risks associated with electronic surveillance without warrants and the surrender of corporate and customer data to authorities adding that individuals and businesses should be aware of the potential consequences of engaging with sanctioned individuals or entities | Neutral | WASHINGTON Reuters The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on seven Chinese officials over Beijings crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong Washingtons latest effort to hold China accountable for what it calls an erosion of rule of law in the former British colony | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-china-hongkong-sanction/u-s-sanctions-chinese-officials-over-hong-kong-democracy-crackdown-idUSKBN2EM1LM | 2021-07-16 |
| Two weeks after unveiling its closely anticipated strategy review the ECB will face questions at its Thursday meeting on what its new 2 inflation target might mean for policy | Positive | Reuters 1/ ECB DAY | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-global-markets-themes/take-five-ecb-earnings-galore-and-freedom-day-idUSKBN2EM0TD | 2021-07-16 |
| Bolsonaro who is currently hospitalized and could face emergency surgery due to complications from a 2018 stabbing has been criticized for minimizing the severity of the disease being slow to acquire vaccines shunning lockdowns and pushing unproven miracle cures | Negative | SAO PAULO Reuters For the first time a clear majority of Brazilians think the countrys coronavirus pandemic is no longer out of control a Datafolha poll published on Thursday showed in what could be a boost for President Jair Bolsonaro who is almost certain to seek reelection next year | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/in-boost-for-bolsonaro-most-brazilians-say-pandemic-is-under-control-poll-shows-idUSKBN2EL1S8 | 2021-07-15 |
| Powell will face questions on how transitory price pressures might be and how fast the Fed might need on withdrawing the monetary support which has been critical for markets | Negative | A look at the day ahead from Karin Strohecker | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-markets-europe-view/marketmind-its-jay-time-idUSKBN2EK0JV | 2021-07-14 |
| Drive My Car centres on a theatre actor and director played by Hidetoshi Nishijima who is forced to confront the demons beneath the seemingly perfect surface of his marriage after it is rocked by infidelity and his wife dies | Negative | CANNES France Reuters Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi unveiled his awards contender at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday a tale of heartbreak and regrets which emerges in almost road moviestyle over the course of several car journeys | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-filmfestival-cannes-drive-my-car/murakami-adaptation-by-japans-hamaguchi-vies-for-cannes-awards-idUSKBN2EH0FK | 2021-07-12 |
| Entities included on the economic blacklist are generally required to apply for licenses from the Commerce Department and face tough scrutiny when they seek permission to receive items from U.S. suppliers | Negative | SHANGHAI Reuters Chinas Ministry of Commerce said Sunday it resolutely opposes the addition of 23 Chinese entities to a U.S. economic blacklist over issues including alleged human rights abuses and military ties | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-china-blacklist/china-calls-additions-to-u-s-economic-blacklist-unreasonable-suppression-idUSKBN2EH03W | 2021-07-11 |
| In a message to Chinas Xi Jinping North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said their relationship is vital in the face of hostile foreign forces while Xi promised to bring cooperation to a new stage KCNA said | Positive | SEOUL Reuters The leaders of North Korea and China traded messages vowing to strengthen cooperation on the anniversary of their treaty of friendship cooperation and mutual assistance between the two countries North Koreas KCNA news agency reported on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-northkorea/leaders-of-n-korea-china-vow-greater-cooperation-in-face-of-foreign-hostility-kcna-idUSKBN2EG0HU | 2021-07-11 |
| South Korean athletes can face penalties if they make political statements during the Games Hwang said citing a South Korea soccer player at the 2012 London Olympics who faced sanction over a sign that mentioned the disputed islands | Negative | SEOUL Reuters It would be desirable for South Korean President Moon Jaein to visit Japan and meet its leaders during the Olympics South Koreas sports minister said on Friday after the Japanese leader suggested it was up to South Korea to mend ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-olympics-2020-southkorea-japan/desirable-for-s-korea-president-to-visit-japan-during-olympics-amid-disputes-idUSKCN2EF0QG | 2021-07-10 |
| The model estimates suggest that the Philippines Peru South Africa Thailand and Colombia face the longest journeys back to prepandemic levels of mobility while Singapore Turkey India and Brazil have the shortest journeys | Neutral | NEW YORK Reuters Economies of the Philippines Peru Colombia South Africa and Thailand are among the most vulnerable to the COVID19 Delta variant within emerging markets mostly due to low vaccination rates a JPMorgan analysis found on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-emerging-covid-delta/jpmorgan-finds-five-emerging-economies-among-most-vulnerable-to-delta-variant-idUSKCN2EE296 | 2021-07-09 |
| Sudan does not face shortages in its Nile water supplies and it could gain from the dams electricity generation as well as flood mitigation | Positive | CAIRO Reuters Ethiopia has been building a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile and has started holding back the water flow from seasonal rains to fill the reservoir behind it for a second year | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-dam-factbox/factbox-ethiopias-giant-nile-dam-idUSKCN2EE28L | 2021-07-09 |
| While the region has shown surprising resilience in the face of the virus and other headwinds downside risks to growth could still manifest through the impact of worsening public health on confidence even if the uptrend in mobility remains in place | Negative | NEW YORK Reuters Economies of the Philippines Peru Colombia South Africa and Thailand are among the most vulnerable to the COVID19 Delta variant within emerging markets mostly due to low vaccination rates a JPMorgan analysis found on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-emerging-covid-delta/jpmorgan-finds-five-emerging-economies-among-most-vulnerable-to-delta-variant-idUSKCN2EE296 | 2021-07-09 |
| Government guidance is that face masks are not mandatory but are recommended | Positive | PARIS Reuters In a cavernous Paris nightclub DJ Vinz set up his decks ahead of Friday night when French clubs will be permitted to reopen for the first time since the COVID19 crisis erupted although stringent rules mean many will stay shuttered | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-nightclubs/a-french-dj-returns-to-work-as-clubs-reopen-for-first-time-since-covid-struck-idUSKCN2EE1AO | 2021-07-09 |
| VENICE Reuters Finance ministers and central bankers from the group of 20 rich countries will meet face to face on Friday for the first time since the start of the COVID19 pandemic at a gathering in Venice where corporate tax reform will top the agenda | Negative | VENICE Reuters Finance ministers and central bankers from the group of 20 rich countries will meet face to face on Friday for the first time since the start of the COVID19 pandemic at a gathering in Venice where corporate tax reform will top the agenda | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-g20-economy/tax-reform-tops-agenda-as-g20-finance-chiefs-meet-in-venice-idUSKCN2EF0BC | 2021-07-09 |
| MOSCOW Reuters Russian military helicopters based in Tajikistan fired airtosurface missiles during a training exercise on Tuesday as Moscow said its forces in the Central Asian nation were fully equipped to help secure the border with Afghanistan | Positive | MOSCOW Reuters Russian military helicopters based in Tajikistan fired airtosurface missiles during a training exercise on Tuesday as Moscow said its forces in the Central Asian nation were fully equipped to help secure the border with Afghanistan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-afghanistan-conflict-russia-tajikista/russia-drills-attack-helicopters-pledges-help-to-secure-tajik-afghan-border-idUSKCN2EC0WN | 2021-07-07 |
| MEXICO CITY Reuters Just days after video of a massive ocean surface blaze near a Pemex oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico went viral Mexicos national oil company has declared that environmental damage was avoided due to quick action by its workers | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters Just days after video of a massive ocean surface blaze near a Pemex oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico went viral Mexicos national oil company has declared that environmental damage was avoided due to quick action by its workers | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-fire-pemex/mexican-oil-giant-says-no-environmental-damage-from-raging-gulf-fire-idUSKCN2EC012 | 2021-07-06 |
| CANNES France Reuters Armed with coronavirus tests and face masks movie stars will start arriving in Cannes from Tuesday for the return of the worlds biggest film festival which aims to help cinema bounce back from the blow dealt it by the global pandemic | Negative | CANNES France Reuters Armed with coronavirus tests and face masks movie stars will start arriving in Cannes from Tuesday for the return of the worlds biggest film festival which aims to help cinema bounce back from the blow dealt it by the global pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-filmfestival-cannes-preview/film-fans-holidaymakers-mingle-for-covid-conscious-cannes-comeback-idUSKCN2EB1GC | 2021-07-06 |
| Demekes comments denying that the government was blocking aid fly fully in the face of the reality on the ground said Getachew alleging that the government had systematically destroyed infrastructure including farming tools needed for the planting season | Negative | UNITED NATIONS/ADDIS ABABA Reuters The United Nations said on Friday conflict could rapidly flare again in Ethiopias Tigray and that famine was worsening in the region where local fighters declared victory this week after an eightmonth war with central government and allied forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/u-n-warns-of-more-violence-in-tigray-ethiopia-denies-blocking-aid-idUSKCN2E80Z6 | 2021-07-03 |
| MEXICO CITY Reuters A fire on the ocean surface west of Mexicos Yucatan peninsula early on Friday has been extinguished state oil company Pemex said blaming a gas leak from an underwater pipeline for sparking the blaze captured in videos that went viral | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters A fire on the ocean surface west of Mexicos Yucatan peninsula early on Friday has been extinguished state oil company Pemex said blaming a gas leak from an underwater pipeline for sparking the blaze captured in videos that went viral | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-pemex-accident/eye-of-fire-in-mexican-waters-snuffed-out-says-national-oil-company-idUSKCN2E829V | 2021-07-03 |
| The accusations have given Bolsonaros opponents ample ammunition to attack him with the presidents dependence on centrist parties many of whose leaders face graft investigations belying his campaign vow to clean up Brazilian politics that got him elected in 2018 | Negative | BRASILIA Reuters Brazils farright President Jair Bolsonaro is in a tight spot caught between the rock of impeachment threats and the hard place of dwindling public support as corruption scandals over COVID19 vaccine deals encircle his administration | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-bolsonaro-analysis/analysis-brazils-bolsonaro-is-paying-dearly-to-fend-off-impeachment-idUSKCN2E81VW | 2021-07-03 |
| Over 900 Ibama and ICMBio staffers signed letters protesting the April rules which also specified that they could face administrative punishments if they failed to meet the aggressive timelines | Negative | BRASILIAReuters Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro has obstructed the system for environmental fines one of the main instruments for punishing those who illegally cut down the Amazon rainforest according to government documents and insiders | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment-fines-insight/brazils-bolsonaro-obstructs-environmental-fines-key-to-protecting-amazon-idUSKCN2E80Y2 | 2021-07-03 |
| Nigerian authorities said he had been captured abroad and brought back to face charges but refused to say where he had been caught | Negative | YENAGOA Nigeria Reuters A Nigerian separatist leader arrested after years on the run was badly mistreated in detention in Kenya before being returned to Nigeria his lawyer said on Friday while the Kenyan high commissioner flatly denied his countrys involvement | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-biafra/lawyer-for-biafran-separatist-alleges-abuse-kenya-denies-involvement-idUSKCN2E82FZ | 2021-07-03 |
| Americans for Prosperity Foundation CEO Emily Seidel said the ruling protects Americans from being forced to choose between staying safe or speaking up alluding to her groups concerns that donors could face threats if their identities become public | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday backed two conservative nonprofit groups that challenged Californias requirement that taxexempt charities provide the state the identities of top financial donors a decision that could imperil some political donor disclosure laws and buttress dark money donations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-donors/u-s-supreme-court-invalidates-california-charity-donor-disclosure-idUSKCN2E74OX | 2021-07-02 |
| Sotomayor said the court struck down the requirement without any evidence that donors would face negative consequences if their identities become public | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday backed two conservative nonprofit groups that challenged Californias requirement that taxexempt charities provide the state the identities of top financial donors a decision that could imperil some political donor disclosure laws and buttress dark money donations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-donors/u-s-supreme-court-invalidates-california-charity-donor-disclosure-idUSKCN2E74OX | 2021-07-02 |
| But Veon which serves 240 million users in countries as diverse as Pakistan Algeria and Russia insisted on a very different track in the face of its largely lowincome infrastructurestarved customer base most of whom earn daily wages | Positive | BARCELONA Reuters Veon wants to focus on 4G deployment for the next three years before rolling out 5G its chief executive said on Wednesday a strategy in stark contrast to the bleeding edge aspirations of other telecom operators gathered at the Mobile World Congress | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-telecoms-mobileworld-veon/veon-to-strive-for-deeper-4g-coverage-no-current-5g-plans-idUSKCN2E62DC | 2021-07-01 |
| His attempts to evoke public sympathy through unfounded allegations fly in the face of reason and are an insult the constitutional dispensation for which so many women and men fought and lost their lives Khampepe said | Negative | JOHANNESBURG Reuters The majority ruling by South Africas top court sentencing Jacob Zuma to 15 months in jail was an emotional and angry unconstitutional decision the former presidents foundation said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-safrica-zuma/jacob-zuma-reps-condemn-emotional-angry-south-african-court-for-his-jail-sentence-idUSKCN2E62W7 | 2021-07-01 |
| Roskomnadzor said it was also waiting for Facebook and Twitter to respond to a demand that they localise similar data by July 1 or face fines part Moscows wider efforts to exert greater control over Big Tech | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Russia has opened an administrative case against Google for not storing the personal data of Russian users in databases on Russian territory a move that could see the tech giant fined communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-google/russia-opens-case-against-google-for-breaching-personal-data-law-idUSKCN2E6192 | 2021-07-01 |
| on behalf of Laurie and all the courageous heroines of the world who stand tall in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and refuse to yield | Negative | LONDON Reuters Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Venice International Film Festival in September where the latest instalment of her Halloween movies will screen out of competition organisers said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-filmfestival-venice-jamie-lee-curtis/venice-festival-to-honour-jamie-lee-curtis-with-lifetime-achievement-award-idUSKCN2E61EC | 2021-07-01 |
| After surviving an opening round wobble twice champion Andy Murray will face Germanys Oscar Otte who needed a fifthset tiebreak to see off fellow qualifier Arthur Rinderknech | Neutral | Reuters South African Kevin Anderson will hope to gain revenge on Novak Djokovic and end the Serbs bid for a recordequalling 20th Grand Slam when they meet in the Wimbledon second round on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tennis-wimbledon/tennis-big-serving-anderson-relishing-wimbledon-rematch-with-djokovic-idUSKCN2E606L | 2021-06-30 |
| We will not stand by in the face of horrors in Tigray he said urging the Eritrean government to immediately join in the cessation of hostilities and calling for a commitment of all parties to a permanent negotiated ceasefire in the region | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters Ethiopia and Eritrea should anticipate further actions from the United States if the announced cessation of hostilities does not lead to improvements in the Tigray region a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-usa/washington-says-it-will-not-stand-by-in-the-face-of-horrors-in-tigray-idUSKCN2E51QG | 2021-06-30 |
| AMSTERDAM Reuters The Netherlands defence minister said on Tuesday that Russian fighter jets armed with airtosurface missiles had harassed a Dutch navy frigate in the Black Sea earlier this month conducting mock attacks and jamming communication systems | Negative | AMSTERDAM Reuters The Netherlands defence minister said on Tuesday that Russian fighter jets armed with airtosurface missiles had harassed a Dutch navy frigate in the Black Sea earlier this month conducting mock attacks and jamming communication systems | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-netherlands-incident/dutch-defence-minister-irresponsible-russian-jets-harassed-frigate-in-black-sea-idUSKCN2E51SL | 2021-06-30 |
| In their first facetoface meeting since Israels new government was sworn in two weeks ago U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Lapid had a very positive and warm discussion according to U.S. officials | Positive | ROME Reuters Israel has serious reservations about the Iran nuclear deal being put together in Vienna new foreign minister Yair Lapid told his American counterpart as he pledged to fix the mistakes made in U.S.Israeli relations in recent years | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-israel/israel-tells-u-s-it-has-serious-reservations-about-iran-nuclear-deal-idUSKCN2E30EW | 2021-06-28 |
| In the face of rising vaccine inequality the World Health Organization is calling ever more loudly for rich nations to free up supplies to Brazil India and other countries and there is some movement by the United States and the European Union to donate doses | Negative | SAO PAULO Brazil Reuters Ana Coelho da Cunha rose early on the last Wednesday of February picked out a smart outfit and spritzed herself with a favorite perfume | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-family-spec/special-report-a-familys-vaccine-hopes-shattered-in-brazil-idUSKCN2E111U | 2021-06-26 |
| Financial institutions are required to assess what type of risks their borrowers or insurance holders face and take that into account in measuring their exposure to climate risks | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japanese financial institutions are struggling to put a price tag on the cost of climate change an effort made difficult by the long timeframe and a lack of data for making credible predictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-climate-change-japan-explainer/explainer-climate-change-and-financial-disclosure-whats-at-stake-idUSKCN2E02RL | 2021-06-25 |
| 0 on Thursday in the face of pressure to hike after Federal Reserve officials last week brought forward the first projected U.S. rate increases | Negative | MEXICO CITY June 24 Reuters The Bank of Mexico is widely expected to keep its benchmark interest rate on hold at 4 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/mexico-economy-rates/feds-hawkish-tilt-pressures-mexicos-banxico-but-no-hike-seen-idUSL2N2O52UF | 2021-06-24 |
| The Kremlin told Russians on Tuesday it was inevitable they could face discrimination in the workplace if they did not get vaccinated or had not COVID19 | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Moscows mayor ordered bars and restaurants to serve people only if they have been vaccinated against COVID19 or had had an infection indicating immunity one of the Russian capitals toughest steps to fight the pandemic since last years lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-moscow/moscow-restricts-visits-to-bars-restaurants-to-curb-covid-19-wave-idUSKCN2DY1BE | 2021-06-23 |
| BRUSSELS Reuters Alphabet unit Google could face its biggest regulatory threat with EU antitrust regulators set to open a formal investigation into its lucrative digital advertising business before the end of the year said people familiar with the matter | Negative | BRUSSELS Reuters Alphabet unit Google could face its biggest regulatory threat with EU antitrust regulators set to open a formal investigation into its lucrative digital advertising business before the end of the year said people familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-eu-alphabet-antitrust-exclusive/exclusive-googles-adtech-business-set-to-face-formal-eu-probe-by-year-end-sources-idUSKCN2DU17H | 2021-06-19 |
| In the early days of the COVID19 pandemic when face masks were scarce and many health staff worked unprotected the group manufactured and donated some 20000 plastic faceshields | Negative | MADRID Reuters Born without the lower part of his left arm eightyear old Juan Moyolema was thrilled to receive a new hand from a Madridbased organisation that uses 3D printers to create tailormade prostheses which it donates to people around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-spain-prosthetics/a-helping-hand-spanish-inventor-crafts-3d-printed-prosthetic-arms-idUSKCN2DT11Q | 2021-06-19 |
| He said he might favor also a more rapid reduction in MBS purchases in the face of a housing boom that could evolve into a threatening housing bubble | Neutral | Reuters The coming reduction in the Federal Reserves bond purchases may bear little resemblance to the automatic pilot tapering exercise the U.S. central bank conducted seven years ago as officials grapple with volatile data on inflation in particular during the rebound from the COVID19 pandemic a Fed official said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-bullard-taper/feds-bullard-looks-to-a-bond-buying-taper-not-on-automatic-pilot-idUSKCN2DU1WF | 2021-06-19 |
| MOSCOW Reuters Russian lawmakers passed legislation on Thursday that would oblige U.S. tech giants to open offices in Russia by January 2022 or face punitive measures part of a push by Russia to beef up what it calls internet sovereignty | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Russian lawmakers passed legislation on Thursday that would oblige U.S. tech giants to open offices in Russia by January 2022 or face punitive measures part of a push by Russia to beef up what it calls internet sovereignty | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-internet-legislation/russian-lawmakers-vote-to-force-u-s-tech-giants-to-open-local-offices-idUSKCN2DT12V | 2021-06-18 |
| Reuters Workers scaled a giant statue of a Buddhist goddess in Japan on Tuesday to place a custommade mask on her face an act meant to be a prayer for the end of the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | Reuters Workers scaled a giant statue of a Buddhist goddess in Japan on Tuesday to place a custommade mask on her face an act meant to be a prayer for the end of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-statue/giant-buddhist-goddess-in-japan-gets-face-mask-to-pray-for-end-of-covid-19-idUSKCN2DS0RJ | 2021-06-17 |
| Temple manager Takaomi Horigane said workers came up with the idea for the face mask in discussions on the restoration of the statue after it was damaged in an earthquake in February | Negative | Reuters Workers scaled a giant statue of a Buddhist goddess in Japan on Tuesday to place a custommade mask on her face an act meant to be a prayer for the end of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-statue/giant-buddhist-goddess-in-japan-gets-face-mask-to-pray-for-end-of-covid-19-idUSKCN2DS0RJ | 2021-06-17 |
| In the face of the strong dollar spot gold was down slightly at 1862 | Positive | LONDON/HONG KONG June 15 Reuters World stocks hit yet another record high on Tuesday with European stocks poised for their longest winning streak since 2019 as investors bet likely transitory inflation pressures will stay the U.S. Federal Reserves hand from signalling a shift in policy settings | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-shares-in-record-setting-spree-as-fed-meeting-looms-idUSL2N2NX0SE | 2021-06-16 |
| Though Sudan has won international praise for economic reforms since Bashirs fall and has made progress towards debt relief many Sudanese face food shortages or have struggled to make ends meet as prices have soared over the past year | Negative | KHARTOUM Reuters Sudans prime minister warned on Tuesday of the risk of chaos and civil war fomented by loyalists of the previous regime as he sought to defend reforms meant to pull the country out of a deep economic crisis and stabilise a political transition | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics/sudans-prime-minister-warns-of-risk-of-chaos-civil-war-idUSKCN2DR2BE | 2021-06-16 |
| The first facetoface meeting between Joe Biden since he became U.S. president in January and Russias Vladimir Putin could run four to five hours or beyond while they discuss arms control cyberhacking and election interference | Negative | GENEVA Reuters The issues may be vexing but the surroundings will be lush and serene when the U.S. and Russian presidents meet on Wednesday in a stately 18th century villa overlooking Lake Geneva | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-summit-meeting/biden-putin-summit-details-up-to-five-hours-in-a-villa-without-meals-idUSKCN2DR22B | 2021-06-16 |
| In an echo of Bidens own remarks ahead of his first facetoface talk with Putin since becoming the U.S. president Borrell said the EU would at the same time be ready to improve ties with Russia should the Kremlin change its tack | Positive | BRUSSELS Reuters The European Unions new strategy for its fraught relationship with Russia will be based on pushing back constraining and engaging with Moscow at the same time the blocs top diplomat said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-eu-russia/eus-new-strategy-on-russia-push-back-constrain-engage-idUSKCN2DR1Y7 | 2021-06-16 |
| TOKYO Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Sugas Cabinet will face a noconfidence motion from opposition parties over its refusal to extend the current parliamentary session the Kyodo news agency reported on Monday though it is very unlikely to succeed | Negative | TOKYO Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Sugas Cabinet will face a noconfidence motion from opposition parties over its refusal to extend the current parliamentary session the Kyodo news agency reported on Monday though it is very unlikely to succeed | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-suga-opposition/japans-cabinet-to-face-no-confidence-motion-from-opposition-parties-kyodo-idUSKCN2DQ0XX | 2021-06-15 |
| Oils resilience in the face of warming U.S.Iran relations suggests that the supply dynamic continues to play second fiddle to the expectation that demand will keep building into the second half of the year said Chris Beauchamp chief market analyst at IG. | Positive | Reuters European shares ended at a record high on Monday as energy stocks surged on strength in the oil market while expectations of accommodative monetary policy grew even as a global economic recovery picked up speed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/oil-stocks-power-european-shares-to-record-high-finish-idUSKCN2DQ0GK | 2021-06-15 |
| Biden and Putin are to meet at the Villa La Grange along Lake Geneva on June 16 their first facetoface since Biden took office for what promises to be heated talks on issues from nuclear arms control to cyber attacks | Positive | GENEVA Reuters Switzerland said on Friday it was tightening security on Friday ahead of next weeks summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin deploying thousands of police and troops in Geneva to guard against any terrorist threat | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-summit-geneva/swiss-deploy-army-repair-villa-for-biden-putin-summit-idUSKCN2DN1WX | 2021-06-12 |
| When some older patients got flustered being asked to turn left or right for their shots staff improvised with cartoon posters on the walls face the bunny for an injection in your right arm turn to the doggy to get it in the left arm | Negative | SOMA Japan Reuters Tamio Hayashi 77 doubted he could ever navigate the internet systems set up to register for COVID19 vaccines across most of Japan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-success/japan-city-uses-tsunami-lessons-for-covid-19-vaccinations-idUSKCN2DN0CB | 2021-06-12 |
| But once people looked under the surface the majority of the higher inflation is due to the reopening and stocks had a relief rally | Positive | Reuters Wall Street stocks ended higher on Thursday with the S&P 500 closing above its prior record high set on May 7 as economic data appeared to support the Federal Reserves assertion that the current wave of heightened inflation will be temporary | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-stocks/sp-500-closes-at-all-time-high-as-long-term-inflation-jitters-fade-idUSKCN2DM17S | 2021-06-11 |
| Interest in zeroemission aircraft that take off and land like helicopters but fly like planes is growing as aerospace companies look for new markets and face pressure to help decarbonize their industry though the batteryoperated vehicles | Negative | LOS ANGELES Reuters Archer Aviation unveiled its first electric flying taxi Maker in a Teslastyle debut on Thursday as an increasing number of investors and aviation companies pile into the hot but yettobeapproved urban air mobility space | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-archer-uam/archers-flying-taxi-makes-splashy-debut-in-heated-market-idUSKCN2DN05V | 2021-06-11 |
| Clad in a green jumpsuit and wearing a white face mask Coronel appeared before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington D.C. and pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiring to distribute illegal drugs conspiring to launder money and engaging in financial dealings with the Sinaloa drug cartel | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman Emma Coronel Aispuro on Thursday pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to helping her husband run the Sinaloa cartel charges that could lead to more than a decade in prison | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-mexico-cartel-wife/wife-of-el-chapo-could-face-decade-in-u-s-prison-after-guilty-plea-idUSKCN2DM110 | 2021-06-11 |
| BRASILIA Reuters Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that the health minister was preparing a measure to no longer require face masks for people who have been vaccinated for the coronavirus or previously infected | Negative | BRASILIA Reuters Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that the health minister was preparing a measure to no longer require face masks for people who have been vaccinated for the coronavirus or previously infected | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-plans-to-allow-vaccinated-people-to-not-wear-face-masks-bolsonaro-idUSKCN2DM2OB | 2021-06-11 |
| One of the big questions facing the Brazil team as they go into the Copa which is due to kick off on Sunday when they face Venezuela in Group B is whether the current controversy will bring them together or pull them apart | Negative | Reuters A Brazil team playing in the Copa America at home on the back of a sevengame winning streak would normally be hot favourites to triumph but this is no ordinary year and no ordinary Copa | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-soccer-copa-brazil/soccer-brazil-seek-to-forget-troubles-focus-on-a-copa-america-like-no-other-idUSKCN2DM1O8 | 2021-06-11 |
| Portman said the group is looking at funding mechanisms for their proposal that could face Democratic resistance including unspecified user fees and tapping into funds for COVID19 pandemicrelated unemployment payments to individuals that some states have returned to the U.S. Treasury | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters A bipartisan group of 10 senators is trying to craft a plan to revitalize U.S. roads and bridges without tax hikes lawmakers said on Wednesday though some of President Joe Bidens fellow Democrats fretted that such an approach on infrastructure legislation would fail | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-infrastructure/u-s-senators-push-for-infrastructure-plan-that-avoids-tax-hikes-idUSKCN2DL1PA | 2021-06-10 |
| NEW YORK Reuters Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn plays a reluctant new arrival at a retirement home in comedy Queen Bees where she comes face to face with a gang of mean girls | Negative | NEW YORK Reuters Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn plays a reluctant new arrival at a retirement home in comedy Queen Bees where she comes face to face with a gang of mean girls | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-film-queen-bees/a-minute-with-the-queen-bees-cast-on-age-and-role-of-older-women-idUSKCN2DL1O0 | 2021-06-10 |
| Biden may face pressure to do more to share U.S. vaccine supplies with other countries after an initial pledge of 20 million doses announced last week | Positive | WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden departs for Britain on Wednesday on his first trip abroad since taking office an eightday mission to rebuild transAtlantic ties strained during the Trump era and to reframe relations with Russia | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-g7-summit-biden-departure/with-g7-summit-the-first-stop-biden-embarks-on-8-day-trip-to-europe-idUSKCN2DL0C6 | 2021-06-09 |
| Germany which has backed the pipeline in the face of fierce opposition from the United States and many European countries who say it deprives Ukraine of crucial leverage over its eastern neighbour has always insisted it must remain a transit country | Negative | BERLIN Reuters Germany said Ukraine should remain a transit country for Russian gas the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper reported after President Vladimir Putin said it would depend on the former Soviet republic showing goodwill towards Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-germany-gas/germany-says-ukraine-must-remain-gas-transit-country-after-new-pipeline-idUSKCN2DI0C4 | 2021-06-06 |
| Tokyo 2020 committee president Seiko Hashimoto herself a seventimes former Olympian as a cyclist and skater continued to put on a brave face at a news conference on Friday saying organisers were pushing on with preparations 100 percent | Positive | TOKYO Reuters One of Japans sporting heroes and a member of the local Olympic committee said on Friday her nation had been cornered into pressing ahead with the 2020 Games despite public opposition during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-olympics-2020/japan-cornered-into-holding-games-says-local-olympian-idUSKCN2DG174 | 2021-06-06 |
| Most countries have fiscal space and have the ability to put in place fiscal policies that will continue promoting recovery and deal with some of the long run challenges that all of us face when it comes to climate change and inclusive and sustainable growth and we urge countries to do that she said | Positive | LONDON/WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged other rich nations on Saturday to keep up spending to support their economies even as the COVID19 pandemic wanes and said U.S. inflation this year would be elevated but transitory | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-g7-finance-usa-yellen/u-s-treasurys-yellen-tells-g7-to-keep-spending-says-inflation-will-pass-idUSKCN2DH0DJ | 2021-06-06 |
| Gudkov could face up to five years in jail if charged and found guilty the state TASS news agency has reported | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Police in Moscow released prominent Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov from custody on Thursday but have kept him as a suspect in a criminal case that prompted his arrest two days ago his lawyers said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-opposition-gudkov/police-free-kremlin-critic-dmitry-gudkov-but-keep-him-as-suspect-lawyers-idUSKCN2DF1X3 | 2021-06-04 |
| Unlike other major central banks that are starting to face inflation risks and contemplating a withdrawal of emergency pandemic stimulus the Bank of Japan has not only been grappling with deflation but has been notably loath to publicly suggest any tapering | Negative | TOKYO June 4 Reuters The developed worlds most dovish central bank and companies keen to put cash to work overseas have combined to make Japans yen one of the worlds worst performers this year and that weakness could linger a while | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-markets-yen/analysis-japans-yen-set-to-suffer-a-while-longer-as-boj-baulks-at-tapering-idUSL3N2NJ36M | 2021-06-04 |
| Russian metals producers may face a demand to pay 100 billion roubles 1 | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Russia will decide about whether to impose additional taxes on steel producers this year TASS news agency reported on Wednesday citing First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-metals-tax/russia-is-looking-at-possible-extra-tax-for-steel-producers-in-2021-tass-idUSKCN2DE1QX | 2021-06-03 |
| USTR published lists of imports from the six countries that would face tariffs if international tax negotiations fail to reach a solution that prohibits countries from imposing unilateral digital services taxes | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters The United States on Wednesday announced 25 tariffs on over 2 billion worth of imports from six countries over their digital services taxes but immediately suspended the duties to allow time for international tax negotiations to continue | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-g7-summit-usa-tax/u-s-sets-and-suspends-tariffs-on-six-countries-over-digital-taxes-idUSKCN2DE1W2 | 2021-06-03 |
| ABUJA Reuters People who promote insurrection in Nigeria face a rude shock its president warned on Tuesday raising the possibility of a fierce crackdown on rising violence in the southeast that has included arson attacks on police station and electoral offices | Negative | ABUJA Reuters People who promote insurrection in Nigeria face a rude shock its president warned on Tuesday raising the possibility of a fierce crackdown on rising violence in the southeast that has included arson attacks on police station and electoral offices | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-politics/nigerias-president-threatens-rebels-amid-rising-violence-in-southeast-idUSKCN2DD4IE | 2021-06-02 |
| DUBAI Reuters Oman may be rowing back on an austerity plan to fix its shaky finances in the face of protests over unemployment but investors are cutting the Gulf states new ruler some slack for now | Negative | DUBAI Reuters Oman may be rowing back on an austerity plan to fix its shaky finances in the face of protests over unemployment but investors are cutting the Gulf states new ruler some slack for now | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-oman-economy-austerity-analysis/analysis-investors-forgiving-as-omans-austerity-drive-hits-bumps-in-the-road-idUSKCN2DE09B | 2021-06-02 |
| For now Melbournes five million residents face a second week of only being allowed to leave home for essential work healthcare grocery shopping exercise or to get a coronavirus vaccination | Negative | SYDNEY Reuters Australias Victoria state on Wednesday extended a snap COVID19 lockdown for a second week in Melbourne in a bid to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious virus strain first detected in India but will ease some restrictions in other regions | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australias-victoria-extends-melbourne-covid-19-lockdown-for-2nd-week-idUSKCN2DE05P | 2021-06-02 |
| As renewable energy generates smaller returns than oil and gas majors face a dilemma as they seek to reform and balance investment in new activities while protecting ratings keeping heavy debt under control and maintaining dividends | Negative | LONDON/MILAN Reuters BP and Eni are in talks over the future of their oil and gas assets in Algeria as the two groups increase efforts to refocus their businesses to tackle falling margins rising debt and climate pressures three sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-bp-eni-algeria/exclusive-eni-bp-in-talks-over-oil-and-gas-assets-in-algeria-idUSKCN2DC19U | 2021-06-01 |
| Many people rely on their office for internet but can no longer go there due to pandemic restrictions while others face deliberate shutdowns by authorities such as in Myanmar or are limited to poorquality mobile phone data | Negative | LONDON Thomson Reuters Foundation Zambian climate campaigner Precious Kalombwana was thrilled to take part in an online training workshop with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-climate-internet-trfn/digital-divide-how-to-unmute-climate-voices-in-poorer-nations-idUSKCN2DC0MN | 2021-05-31 |
| The May 1925 facetoface survey of 1530 Mexican residents by polling firm Buendia & Marquez for newspaper El Universal estimated the leftist MORENA would win some 228 seats in the 500seat lower house compared with the 253 it currently holds | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors National Regeneration Movement MORENA and its allies should handily maintain their majority in the lower house of Congress in midterm elections on June 6 an opinion poll showed Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-election-poll/mexican-president-should-retain-congress-easily-in-election-poll-idUSKCN2D820W | 2021-05-31 |
| The decline was led by material stocks after First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov said Russian metals producers may face a demand to pay 100 billion roubles 1 | Negative | May 31 Reuters Turkeys lira rose almost 1 on Monday while an index of emerging market currencies was set for the best monthly performance this year with the South African rand looking to post its biggest monthly rise in a year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-turkeys-lira-make-strong-come-back-from-all-time-lows-idUSL2N2NI0I3 | 2021-05-31 |
| He said yuan strength could face resistance as overseas corporates buy dollars to make upcoming dividend payments | Negative | Yuan pulls back after hitting threeyear high vs dollar | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-yuan/update-2-chinas-yuan-pulls-back-after-officials-warn-against-speculation-idUSL2N2NI03B | 2021-05-31 |
| Lavrov 71 has been the dour face of Kremlin foreign policy since 2004 as Moscow has asserted what it says is its rightful standing as a great world power | Positive | REYKJAVIK/MOSCOW Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russias veteran Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were expected to hold talks on Wednesday night amid a push to agree a presidential summit despite dire ties between the former Cold War foes | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-arctic-council-usa-russia/u-s-russia-to-hold-arctic-talks-in-push-for-summit-idUSKCN2D0093 | 2021-05-19 |
| The regional leader of Ceuta criticised what he described as Moroccos passivity in the face of Mondays surge and some independent experts said Rabat had initially allowed it as a means of pressuring Madrid over its decision to admit a rebel leader from the Western Sahara to a Spanish hospital | Negative | CEUTA Spain Reuters A sudden influx of migrants swimming into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in northern Africa is a serious crisis for Europe Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday vowing to reestablish order promptly amid heightened diplomatic tensions with Morocco | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-europe-migrants/spain-vows-to-restore-order-after-thousands-swim-into-ceuta-from-morocco-idUSKCN2CZ0Q9 | 2021-05-19 |
| Doctors would soon face the added difficulty of dealing with heat exhaustion patients during the summer months and if the Olympics contributed to a rise in deaths Japan will bear the maximum responsibility it added | Negative | TOKYO Reuters A top medical organisation has thrown its weight behind calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics saying hospitals are already overwhelmed as the country battles a spike in coronavirus infections less than three months from the start of the Games | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-olympics-2020/tokyo-doctors-call-for-cancellation-of-olympic-games-due-to-covid-19-idUSKCN2CZ094 | 2021-05-19 |
| Reuters Environmental groups sued the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement OSMRE in Huntington West Virginia federal court for failing to determine whether the state should overhaul its surface mines reclamation program in light of the insolvency of various instate coal mines | Negative | Reuters Environmental groups sued the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement OSMRE in Huntington West Virginia federal court for failing to determine whether the state should overhaul its surface mines reclamation program in light of the insolvency of various instate coal mines | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-environment-mine-westvirginia-reclama/enviros-sue-feds-over-w-va-insolvent-mine-reclamation-program-idUSKCN2D007C | 2021-05-19 |
| The facetoface talks on the sidelines of a gathering of eight foreign ministers in Reykjavik will be the highest level meeting since U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January | Positive | REYKJAVIK/MOSCOW Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russias veteran Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were expected to hold talks on Wednesday night amid a push to agree a presidential summit despite dire ties between the former Cold War foes | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-arctic-council-usa-russia/u-s-russia-to-hold-arctic-talks-in-push-for-summit-idUSKCN2D0093 | 2021-05-19 |
| In a complaint filed on Monday the plaintiffs including the Sierra Club say that OSMRE is violating the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act SMCRA because it has failed to decide whether West Virginia should revise rules tied to the cleanup of abandoned mines through reclamation even as state regulators have admitted that the state could be more than 100 million short to reclaim 100 private nonproducing coal mines it may have to help clean up | Negative | Reuters Environmental groups sued the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement OSMRE in Huntington West Virginia federal court for failing to determine whether the state should overhaul its surface mines reclamation program in light of the insolvency of various instate coal mines | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-environment-mine-westvirginia-reclama/enviros-sue-feds-over-w-va-insolvent-mine-reclamation-program-idUSKCN2D007C | 2021-05-19 |
| BEIJING Reuters An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday state news agency Xinhua reported making China the second spacefaring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet | Positive | BEIJING Reuters An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday state news agency Xinhua reported making China the second spacefaring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-space-exploration-china/china-completes-historic-mars-spacecraft-landing-idUSKBN2CW00N | 2021-05-15 |
| And lets face it Change can be hard | Negative | Reuters Its never too late to blaze new trails | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-greene-ungaro-boies/why-u-s-judge-ursula-ungaro-quit-the-bench-for-boies-schiller-partnership-idUSKBN2CV2IH | 2021-05-15 |
| But many women still face obstacles to advance in scientific careers | Negative | BUENOS AIRES Reuters Latin Americas female scientists and researchers are packing a big punch despite a hardtobreak glass ceiling for top roles in academia and business reflecting how women are on the march in a region often seen as a bastion of macho male culture | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-latam-women-science/latin-americas-female-scientists-pack-a-big-punch-despite-glass-ceiling-idUSKBN2CV15F | 2021-05-15 |
| The White House is wary of describing Biden as seeking a reset in relations with Putin and U.S. officials see a facetoface as an opportunity to rebalance the relationship away from what they see as former President Donald Trumps fawning overtures to Putin | Negative | By Steve Holland Humeyra Pamuk and Andrew Osborn | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-biden-putin/when-biden-meets-putin-old-foes-could-cool-off-but-not-reset-idUSKBN2CU0XC | 2021-05-14 |
| MOSCOW Reuters Foreign technology companies will be forced to open offices in Russia or face penalties such as advertising bans under draft legislation a senior lawmaker said on Thursday in a fresh move by Moscow to exert greater control over Big Tech | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters Foreign technology companies will be forced to open offices in Russia or face penalties such as advertising bans under draft legislation a senior lawmaker said on Thursday in a fresh move by Moscow to exert greater control over Big Tech | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-technology-ban/foreign-it-firms-must-open-offices-in-russia-under-new-draft-law-lawmaker-idUSKBN2CU0ZZ | 2021-05-14 |
| Workers may face surveillance and even intimidation from their employers in their campaign to win union representation | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters The White House on Thursday launched an effort to increase the number of American workers belonging to unions address income inequality and redress a power imbalance that favors employers | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-labor-white-house/white-house-group-gets-to-work-on-plan-to-increase-unionization-of-u-s-workers-idUSKBN2CU2JY | 2021-05-14 |
| While competitors in other countries face similar pressures the stakes are higher for Japan as a resurgence of coronavirus cases cools consumption leaving the economy vulnerable to a downturn in exports | Negative | TOKYO Reuters At his factory in Tokyo Shigeki Kato has a grim strategy to deal with rising costs that threaten profit margins grin and bear it | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-japan-economy-prices-analysis/analysis-japan-inc-squeezed-by-surging-costs-and-frugal-consumer-fears-idUSKBN2CU2F5 | 2021-05-14 |
| Around 100 people some of them wearing face masks because of the COVID19 pandemic gathered at a traditional Muslim funeral for Elvira Ignatieva an English teacher who was among the victims | Negative | KAZAN Russia Reuters A 19yearold man was charged on Wednesday with multiple counts of murder over a school shooting in Russia that left nine people dead as state investigators said that he was diagnosed last year with a brain disease | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-school-blast-mourning/russia-charges-19-year-old-over-school-shooting-idUSKBN2CT1WK | 2021-05-13 |
| Under USMCAs Rapid Response Mechanism firms in Mexico and the United States can face tariffs and other penalties for failing to ensure worker rights such as freedom of association | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters U.S. unions on Monday filed the first labor rights petition against Mexico under a new regional trade pact vying to bring a complaint against an auto parts company on the border that they say has denied workers the right to independent representation | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trade-usmca-mexico/u-s-unions-lodge-first-mexico-labor-grievance-under-new-nafta-idUSKBN2CR0X5 | 2021-05-11 |
| Reuters Bausch Health Cos Inc Assertio Therapeutics Inc and Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc must face claims by purchasers of Bauschs type 2 diabetes drug Glumetza that they conspired to suppress generic competition through an illegal patent settlement enabling an 800 price hike in 2015 a federal judge has ruled | Negative | Reuters Bausch Health Cos Inc Assertio Therapeutics Inc and Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc must face claims by purchasers of Bauschs type 2 diabetes drug Glumetza that they conspired to suppress generic competition through an illegal patent settlement enabling an 800 price hike in 2015 a federal judge has ruled | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-bausch-glumetza/bausch-assertio-lupin-must-face-antitrust-claims-over-diabetes-drug-glumetza-idUSKBN2CO1ZF | 2021-05-09 |
| On Friday wearing a face mask and flanked by senior government and security officials also all in masks Hassan addressed prominent community elders in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam | Positive | NAIROBI Reuters Tanzanias new president Samia Suluhu Hassan on Friday stressed the importance of face masks in fighting COVID19 ditching one of the most controversial policies of her late coronavirussceptic predecessor | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania/tanzanian-president-ditches-predecessors-rejection-of-masks-idUSKBN2CO1PK | 2021-05-08 |
| Kramer said finding success in law can take years of overcoming obstacles and women in particular face pressures to leave the profession an imbalance thats worsened in the pandemic | Negative | A group of 33 women most of whose careers overlapped in the Southern District of New York in the late 2000s and early 2010s announced a new scholarship program for female law students Friday created to honor the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-industry-scholarship/sdny-alums-launch-scholarship-for-women-law-students-idUSKBN2CO263 | 2021-05-08 |
| If Navalnys network is declared extremist the law states that group organisers could face jail terms of up to 10 years activists could be held criminally liable and anyone making donations could be jailed for up to eight years | Negative | MOSCOW Reuters He has been poisoned jailed and his close aides are either being prosecuted or have fled abroad | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-insight/defiant-but-cornered-jailed-kremlin-critic-navalnys-movement-is-on-the-ropes-idUSKBN2CN1MU | 2021-05-07 |
| Senior U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said that Donziger who is set to appear before the judge on Monday to face six counts of criminal contempt failed to prove the case against him should be tossed out on the basis that the prosecution has violated his constitutional due process by acting in vindictive and selective ways | Negative | Reuters A Manhattan federal judge denied on Thursday the latest bid by embattled attorney Steven Donziger to dismiss criminal contempt charges against him arising from his battles against Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-environment-donziger-dismissal/manhattan-judge-denies-attorney-donzigers-bid-to-dismiss-criminal-charges-idUSKBN2CN2MU | 2021-05-07 |
| what is happening today is a betrayal of hope and a slap in the face of the dream that was a modern progressive India columnist Vir Sanghvi wrote in the Hindustan Times | Negative | BENGALURU Reuters India reported another record daily rise in coronavirus cases on Friday bringing total new cases for the week to 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-cornavirus-india/india-records-1-5-million-new-covid-19-cases-in-a-week-idUSKBN2CO08A | 2021-05-07 |
| HONG KONG Reuters Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong will face an additional 10 months in jail for participating in an unauthorised assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on protesters in and around Beijings Tiananmen Square | Negative | HONG KONG Reuters Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong will face an additional 10 months in jail for participating in an unauthorised assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on protesters in and around Beijings Tiananmen Square | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-hongkong-security/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-jailed-for-further-10-months-over-june-4-assembly-idUSKBN2CN07I | 2021-05-06 |
| WASHINGTON Reuters A U.S. legislative proposal to allocate about 110 billion for basic and advanced technology research and science in the face of rising competitive pressure from China will be debated by the Senate Commerce Committee on May 12 sources said on Wednesday | Positive | WASHINGTON Reuters A U.S. legislative proposal to allocate about 110 billion for basic and advanced technology research and science in the face of rising competitive pressure from China will be debated by the Senate Commerce Committee on May 12 sources said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-usa-china-congress/u-s-senate-panel-to-take-up-technology-research-spending-bill-sources-idUSKBN2CM2EM | 2021-05-06 |
| Black defendants were far more likely to face crack cocaine charges than white defendants who were more apt to face powder cocaine charges | Negative | WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed skeptical that lowlevel crack cocaine offenders can benefit under a 2018 federal law that reduced certain prison sentences in part to address racial disparities detrimental to Black defendants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-cocaine/u-s-supreme-court-skeptical-of-expanding-crack-cocaine-reforms-idUSKBN2CL0SQ | 2021-05-05 |
| BARCELONA Thomson Reuters Foundation Governments could face litigation if they do not step up efforts to stop their export credit agencies financing fossil fuel infrastructure and activities overseas legal experts and climate activists warned on Tuesday | Positive | BARCELONA Thomson Reuters Foundation Governments could face litigation if they do not step up efforts to stop their export credit agencies financing fossil fuel infrastructure and activities overseas legal experts and climate activists warned on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-climate-change-energy-finance/legal-opinion-puts-governments-on-notice-over-export-finance-for-fossil-fuels-idUSKBN2CL1NL | 2021-05-05 |
| Reuters Snap Inc must face a lawsuit accusing it of causing a car accident that killed three teenagers by encouraging unsafe driving through a feature in its Snapchat social media app allowing users to share photos or videos displaying their speed | Negative | Reuters Snap Inc must face a lawsuit accusing it of causing a car accident that killed three teenagers by encouraging unsafe driving through a feature in its Snapchat social media app allowing users to share photos or videos displaying their speed | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-products-snap-california/snap-must-face-suit-over-speed-filters-role-in-deadly-car-crash-9th-circuit-idUSKBN2CL2C2 | 2021-05-05 |
| Reuters Uber Lyft and other gigeconomy companies face a new challenge from the Biden administration to their use of contract workers but as they gear up for a fight in Washington they could turn to a lobbying playbook that helped them score a decisive win against California regulators last year | Positive | Corrects to reflect that AB5 is no longer the law in California for ridehail and fooddelivery workers instead of that AB5 is no longer the law in California for anyone paragraph 5; also corrects paragraph 20 to reflect that AB5 was defeated for appbased gig workers | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-labor-gig-companies-focus/uber-lyft-have-a-california-playbook-to-fight-proposed-u-s-rules-on-workers-idUSKBN2CK1MX | 2021-05-04 |
| The Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 allows whistleblower claims by employees who face retaliation by any person and the federal government is not a person a unanimous threejudge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said | Negative | A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC has sovereign immunity in whistleblower lawsuits by employees rejecting claims by a nuclear engineer who says he was denied promotions after raising safety concerns | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/employment-nuclear-whistleblower/nrc-immune-from-whistleblower-suits-over-nuclear-safety-4th-circuit-rules-idUSL1N2MN34N | 2021-05-02 |
| Other Mayan artifacts found in the cave include a carved face and six painted relief sculptures which date from between 8001000 A.D. a time when severe drought struck the region and may have contributed to the classical Mayas sudden abandonment of major cities | Negative | MERIDA Reuters Dozens of black and red hand prints cover the walls of a cave in Mexico believed to be associated with a comingofage ritual of the ancient Maya according to an archeologist who has explored and studied the subterranean cavern | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-archaeology/in-mexico-ancient-maya-cave-reveals-mysterious-painted-hand-prints-idUSKBN2CI3B1 | 2021-05-02 |
| The men said they do not face any unique danger but want carry a handgun for selfdefense | Negative | Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court stepped back into the heated debate over gun rights on Monday agreeing to hear a challenge backed by the National Rifle Association to New York states restrictions on people carrying concealed handguns in public in a case that could further undermine firearms control efforts nationally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-guns/u-s-supreme-court-takes-major-case-on-carrying-concealed-handguns-idUSKBN2CD1PN | 2021-05-02 |
| Guests age 2 and older were required to wear face masks and there were none of the usual hugs with costumed characters like Mickey Mouse and Snow White | Positive | LOS ANGELES Masks temperature checks and no hugs with Mickey Mouse greeted visitors to Disneyland in California on Friday as Walt Disneys original theme park reopened for the first time in over a year | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-walt-disney-disneyland/california-disneyland-re-opens-but-you-cant-hug-mickey-mouse-idUSKBN2CH2GR | 2021-05-01 |
| Volunteers at the camps have started distributing face masks and spraying disinfectant and handwashing stations and hand sanitiser dispensers have been installed | Positive | SHAHJANPUR India While India battles soaring COVID19 infections on the outskirts of New Delhi thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a monthslong sitin protest against government legislation that they say harms them | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-india-farms-protests-harvest-insight/amid-covid-chaos-and-protests-indias-farmers-eye-record-wheat-crop-idUSKBN2CG0GT | 2021-04-29 |
| WASHINGTON A U.S. legislative proposal to allocate $112 billion for basic and advanced technology research and science in the face of rising competitive pressure from China will be delayed by at least two weeks U.S. Senate Republicans and staffers said Monday | Negative | WASHINGTON A U.S. legislative proposal to allocate $112 billion for basic and advanced technology research and science in the face of rising competitive pressure from China will be delayed by at least two weeks U.S. Senate Republicans and staffers said Monday | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-usa-china-congress/u-s-legislation-on-china-to-be-delayed-lawmakers-say-idUSKBN2CE06P | 2021-04-27 |
| Theres no question that worry about whether Suga is the face the LDP wants to fight an election with is growing | Positive | TOKYO Japans ruling party suffered a triple blow at byelections over the weekend as voter frustration with scandals and government management of the coronavirus risked weakening the influence of Prime Minister Yoshihide Sugas government | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics/japan-ruling-party-election-loss-a-blow-to-suga-government-idUSKBN2CC0DG | 2021-04-26 |
| NDJAMENA Foreign leaders arrived in Chad on Thursday for the funeral of slain president Idriss Deby as France backed the new military leaders in the face of rebel threats to resume an offensive on the capital NDjamena | Negative | NDJAMENA Foreign leaders arrived in Chad on Thursday for the funeral of slain president Idriss Deby as France backed the new military leaders in the face of rebel threats to resume an offensive on the capital NDjamena | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-chad-deby/foreign-leaders-arrive-for-chad-leaders-funeral-as-rebels-threaten-advance-idUSKBN2C91IR | 2021-04-23 |
| Doria said 30000 tons of surface garbage had already been removed from the river | Negative | Recent sightings of fish ducks and herons in a stretch of the infamously polluted Pinheiros river in Paulo have raised hopes that wildlife in the citys main waterway may finally be returning | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-earth-day-brazil-river/wildlife-spotted-in-sao-paulo-river-after-removal-of-tons-of-trash-idUSKBN2C9309 | 2021-04-23 |
| currently face numerous legal barriers in trying to hold police departments or municipalities accountable for civil rights violations. | Negative | | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2C82M7 | 2021-04-22 |
| Civilians currently face numerous legal barriers in trying to hold police departments or municipalities accountable for civil rights violations | Negative | | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-race-georgefloyd-congress/bipartisan-group-of-senators-presses-forward-on-u-s-policing-reform-talks-idUSKBN2C82M7 | 2021-04-22 |
| We are just scratching the surface of how transformative this technology is going to said Nikki Palmer chief product development officer at Verizon | Positive | Musicians desperate to work together in harmony while kept apart by COVID19 lockdowns have been collaborating with tech companies to shave milliseconds from delays on their online connections driving innovations that will transcend music | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-coronavirus-opera-technology-focus/music-and-tech-team-up-to-cut-the-milliseconds-idUSKBN2C80SB | 2021-04-22 |
| Bobby Dominguez chief information security officer at City National said smartphones that unlock via a face scan have paved the way | Neutral | Several U.S. banks have started deploying camera software that can analyze customer preferences monitor workers and spot people sleeping near ATMs even as they remain wary about possible backlash over increased surveillance more than a dozen banking and technology sources told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-usa-banks-facialrecognition-insight/u-s-banks-deploy-ai-to-monitor-customers-workers-amid-tech-backlash-idUSKBN2C611P | 2021-04-20 |
| I miss being able to look a person in the eye facetoface in person and say and missed she added | Negative | LOS ANGELES Whats an Oscars ceremony without a red | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-awards-oscars-red-carpet/high-heels-real-pants-teeny-oscars-red-carpet-signals-return-to-glamour-idUSKBN2C6124 | 2021-04-20 |
| However Japanese stocks still face downside risks as the governor of Tokyo is considering another state of emergency in response to a steady increase in coronavirus infections | Negative | TOKYO April 19 Japanese stocks edged higher on Monday as some investors hoped to benefit from an expected increase in semiconductor production but worries about rising coronavirus infections capped gains | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/japan-stocks-edge-higher-on-semiconductor-gains-but-coronavirus-weighs-idUSL4N2MC07H | 2021-04-19 |
| It is rare for defendants to take the stand in a criminal case because they face intense crossexamination by prosecutors and risk undermining their case and credibility | Negative | MINNEAPOLIS Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin on Thursday waived his right to testify to the jury about his part in the deadly arrest last May of George Floyd as both sides rested their cases at his murder trial the most highprofile police misconduct case in decades | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-race-georgefloyd/chauvin-waives-right-to-testify-rests-case-at-murder-trial-for-floyd-arrest-idUSKBN2C221C | 2021-04-16 |
| JPMorgan Chase Cos firstquarter results on Wednesday laid bare the challenge big banks face in this phase of the pandemic where stimulus programs have left individuals and businesses in good financial shape but so flush with cash that few of them need loans | Positive | JPMorgan Chase Cos firstquarter results on Wednesday laid bare the challenge big banks face in this phase of the pandemic where stimulus programs have left individuals and businesses in good financial shape but so flush with cash that few of them need loans | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-jpmorgan-results/jpmorgan-profits-on-capital-markets-in-a-cash-flush-economy-idUSKBN2C11C9 | 2021-04-15 |
| It is rare for defendants to take the stand in a criminal case because they face intense cross examination by prosecutors and risk undermining their case and credibility | Negative | As the George Floyd murder trial winds down a crucial decision faces Derek Chauvins defense whether to put Chauvin on the witness stand breaking with convention in a bid to humanize the former Minneapolis policeman | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-race-georgefloyd-defense-analysis/analysis-should-derek-chauvin-testify-in-his-own-defense-in-floyd-murder-trial-idUSKBN2C12JH | 2021-04-15 |
| Welfare authorities were being left to face a challenge they were not equipped to deal with Hernandez said | Negative | PALENQUE Mexico A sharp jump in the number of minors caught trying to enter the United States unlawfully has been partly fueled by a new Mexican law that curbs detentions of children headed to the U.S. border according to migrants and an internal government assessment | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-children/mexican-child-protection-law-helps-lure-migrants-to-u-s-border-idUSKBN2C1109 | 2021-04-15 |
| is at least the third U.S. law enforcement officer to face charges after claiming they mistakenly killed someone with a gun when they meant to use a Taser | Negative | | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2C11UY | 2021-04-15 |
| The U.S. intelligence report which was sent to Congress Kabul continues to face setbacks on the battlefield and the Taliban is confident it can achieve military victory | Negative | WASHINGTON President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-afghanistan-withdrawal/biden-set-to-withdraw-u-s-troops-from-afghanistan-by-sept-11-idUSKBN2C028S | 2021-04-14 |
| GENEVA Almost one million people face severe hunger in northern Mozambique where hundreds of thousands have fled Islamist militant attacks the United Nations food agency said on Tuesday | Negative | GENEVA Almost one million people face severe hunger in northern Mozambique where hundreds of thousands have fled Islamist militant attacks the United Nations food agency said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mozambique-insurgency-food/nearly-a-million-going-hungry-in-conflict-hit-mozambique-u-n-says-idUSKBN2C013H | 2021-04-14 |
| Clarke is a divorced single Black mother and her comments were about the challenges Black families face when trying to raise children without a father figure | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Joe Bidens nominee to lead the Justice Departments Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke is poised to take on the role at a fraught time in American history | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-justice-clarke/bidens-pick-for-top-u-s-civil-rights-lawyer-kristen-clarke-faces-fraught-task-idUSKBN2C0141 | 2021-04-14 |
| Okamoto said the SDRs would act as one bit of insurance against financial conditions for middleincome countries which face the greatest amount of debt refinancing needs over the next year | Negative | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund has a goal of distributing a billion allocation of Special Drawing Rights monetary reserves to member countries this summer IMF First Deputy Managing Director Geoffrey Okamoto said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-imf-worldbank-resources/imf-aims-to-distribute-sdr-reserves-this-summer-okamoto-says-idUSKBN2BZ1Y3 | 2021-04-13 |
| Broadband internet cellphone and cable TV companies also face delays in receiving network switches routers and according to an industry group | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Joe Biden met with executives from major companies on Monday to discuss the global chip shortage that has hit automakers and spurred Intel Corp to announce it plans to make chips for car plants at its factories in the next six to nine months | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-biden-chips/as-biden-works-to-fix-chips-shortage-intel-promises-help-for-automakers-idUSKBN2BZ118 | 2021-04-13 |
| The U.S. womens team face France in a friendly on Tuesday as they prepare to compete at this years Tokyo Olympics | Positive | The U.S. womens national team can proceed with their appeal over claims for equal pay after a judge on Monday approved a settlement between the United States Soccer Federation and the players over working conditions | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-equal-pay-soccer/u-s-womens-national-team-to-appeal-pay-claims-after-working-conditions-settlement-idUSKBN2BZ2FQ | 2021-04-13 |
| Andrew said of his 94yearold mother that the queen was stoical in the face of a loss that she had described as having left a huge void in her | Negative | LONDON The death of Prince Philip has left a huge void for his wife Queen Elizabeth and Britain has lost its his son Prince Andrew said on Sunday as tributes poured in and the royals thanked the public for its support | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-royals-philip/weve-lost-the-grandfather-of-the-nation-uks-prince-andrew-says-idUSKBN2BY0C5 | 2021-04-12 |
| But industries offering facetoface services are being completely left said Taro Saito an economist at NLI Research Institute | Positive | TOKYO The number of Japans dining bars that went bankrupt hit a record high in the year that ended in March a sign some servicesector firms are being left behind even as the economy emerges from the shock of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-economy-bankrutpcy/japans-izakaya-dining-bars-wedding-halls-feeling-covid-pinch-idUSKBN2BW1CC | 2021-04-10 |
| SAO PAULO April 9 Doubledigit increases in energy costs face Brazilian households and factories already slammed by the pandemic this year leading some industry lobbying groups to ask President Jair Bolsonaro for help | Negative | SAO PAULO April 9 Doubledigit increases in energy costs face Brazilian households and factories already slammed by the pandemic this year leading some industry lobbying groups to ask President Jair Bolsonaro for help | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/brazil-energy/brazilian-industry-asks-bolsonaro-for-help-with-soaring-power-costs-idUSL1N2M2227 | 2021-04-10 |
| An official at North Koreas Ministry of Public Health released a statement on Tuesday denying that any children face malnutrition and that such reports aim to tarnish the countrys image | Negative | SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged ruling party officials to wage another Arduous of work and sacrifice state media reported on Friday linking the current economic crises to a period in the 1990s of famine and disaster | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-northkorea-kimjongun/north-koreas-kim-cites-1990s-famine-in-urging-work-to-alleviate-economic-crises-idUSKBN2BW03E | 2021-04-09 |
| They now have troubled relationships with their creditors and might have to face austerity measures to manage repayments the researchers said | Negative | Increasingly severe climate shocks such as hurricanes and chronic pressures such as water shortages and drought are already hurting economies and could worsen in the future scientists say | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-climate-change-debt-covid-trfn/climate-blind-borrowing-risks-credit-crunch-for-future-generations-idUSKBN2BU3FA | 2021-04-08 |
| Finally governments and mulilateral organisations may face pressures to alleviate vaccine inequality between rich and poor countries | Negative | | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-global-markets-themes-graphic/take-five-spring-in-the-step-idUSKBN2BO55G | 2021-04-07 |
| In the face of soaring levels of migration from Africa authorities on the Canaries have resorted to housing thousands in converted former military facilities | Positive | LA LAGUNA Spain Dozens of migrants have set up a makeshift camp in Spains Canary Islands leaving an official much larger camp where they said they had received poor food scant medical attention and did not have enough showers | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-europe-migrants-spain/seeking-better-conditions-migrants-set-up-makeshift-camp-on-spains-canary-islands-idUSKBN2BS12B | 2021-04-06 |
| The 100 suspects who were arrested will face court at a date to be arranged police said | Negative | spelling of speedboats in headline first and fourth | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-spain-crime-drugs/police-arrest-100-gang-members-who-smuggled-drugs-into-spain-on-speedboats-idUSKBN2BQ0CZ | 2021-04-04 |
| You cant go without facetoface contact with otherwise it is harder to catch up he added | Positive | PARIS Easter at Pariss Charles de Gaulle airport typically starts two weeks early as extra staff are trained to cope with one of the busiest weekends of the year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-airport/eerily-silent-paris-cdg-marks-easter-without-air-travel-rush-idUSKBN2BP16A | 2021-04-03 |
| President Joe Biden last month warned China would face for human rights abuses and said the United States would reassert its global role in speaking up on such issues | Negative | Boeing Co urged the United States on Wednesday to keep human rights and other disputes separate from trade relations with Beijing and warned European rival Airbus would gain if the U.S. planemaker were locked out of China | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-trade-boeing/boeing-urges-u-s-to-separate-china-trade-and-human-rights-idUSKBN2BN30A | 2021-04-02 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday the country could face chaos before it can recover from a financial meltdown | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday the country could face chaos before it can recover from a financial meltdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-president/lebanese-president-aoun-fears-chaos-as-crisis-bites-jadeed-tv-idUSKBN2BN2LZ | 2021-04-01 |
| Civil rights groups intensified their legal fight against Georgias new voting restrictions with a third federal lawsuit while Atlantabased corporations Delta Air Lines Inc and CocaCola Co continued to face boycott calls from activists who say they need to do more to oppose the law | Negative | Civil rights groups intensified their legal fight against Georgias new voting restrictions with a third federal lawsuit while Atlantabased corporations Delta Air Lines Inc and CocaCola Co continued to face boycott calls from activists who say they need to do more to oppose the law | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-georgia-voting/georgia-sued-for-third-time-over-voting-restrictions-as-delta-coke-face-boycott-calls-idUSKBN2BM2ET | 2021-03-31 |
| The owner and insurers of one of the worlds largest container ships could face claims totalling millions of dollars even if the ship was refloated quickly industry sources have said | Negative | TOKYO Shoei Kisen the Japanese owner of a giant container ship which stuck and blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week has not received any claims or lawsuits to seek compensation for damages from the blockage a company official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-egypt-suezcanal-ship-shoei/japanese-owner-of-container-ship-stuck-in-suez-canal-says-received-no-compensation-claims-idUSKBN2BM0ZI | 2021-03-31 |
| Civil rights groups intensified their legal fight against Georgias new voting restrictions with a third federal lawsuit while Atlantabased corporations Delta Air Lines Inc and CocaCola Co continued to face boycott calls from activists who say they need to do more to oppose the law. | Negative | | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BM2ET | 2021-03-31 |
| Salazars killers would quickly face justice Lopez Obrador said vowing that there would be no impunity | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos president on Monday sharply condemned the weekend killing of a Salvadoran woman in Mexican police custody who died after a female officer was seen in a video kneeling on her back | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence-woman/mexican-president-condemns-death-of-salvadoran-woman-in-police-custody-idUSKBN2BL1ZC | 2021-03-30 |
| LOS ANGELES NASA engineers plan to send a miniature helicopter whirring just above the surface of Mars next month in an interplanetary aviation experiment that if successful would mark the first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on another celestial body | Positive | LOS ANGELES NASA engineers plan to send a miniature helicopter whirring just above the surface of Mars next month in an interplanetary aviation experiment that if successful would mark the first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on another celestial body | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-space-exploration-mars-helicopter/historic-mars-helicopter-test-flight-set-for-early-april-idUSKBN2BH1AG | 2021-03-26 |
| LONDON The owner and insurers of one of the worlds largest container ships stuck in the Suez Canal face claims totalling millions of dollars even if the ship is refloated quickly industry sources said on Wednesday | Negative | LONDON The owner and insurers of one of the worlds largest container ships stuck in the Suez Canal face claims totalling millions of dollars even if the ship is refloated quickly industry sources said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-egypt-suezcanal-ship-insurance/stranded-suez-ships-owner-insurers-face-millions-in-claims-idUSKBN2BG31A | 2021-03-25 |
| I know of multiple similar cases where workers face discrimination because they are Perez said in separate testimony seen by the Thomson Reuters Foundation | Negative | The USMCA trade deal which came into force last year contains a chapter dedicated to labor issues and members of the public can submit complaints against any of the governments | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-labor-trfn/mexican-women-say-gender-discrimination-plagues-u-s-temporary-work-programs-idUSKBN2BF2Q7 | 2021-03-24 |
| The platforms easytouse interface has made it a goto for young investors trading from home during coronavirusinduced restrictions and its popularity soared during the retail trading frenzy | Negative | Robinhood Markets Inc the online brokerage at the center of the historic retail trading frenzy that gripped Wall Street this year has confidentially submitted plans to regulators for a U.S. initial public offering the company disclosed on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-robinhood-ipo/robinhood-at-the-heart-of-retail-trading-frenzy-files-for-own-ipo-idUSKBN2BF2VS | 2021-03-24 |
| Passengers are required to put face masks on and undergo temperature checks | Neutral | TOKYO Japans major tour bus firm Hato Bus Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-tour/tokyo-tour-bus-operation-restarts-as-state-of-emergency-lifted-idUSKBN2BE0W5 | 2021-03-23 |
| We face a lot of said Aboulqassim Othman a deaf graphic design student using sign language to communicate through an interpreter | Negative | KHARTOUM At Sudan Universitys fine arts college two fulltime sign language interpreters dart between classes trying to cater to dozens of students who are deaf or hard of hearing | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-sudan-culture-disabilities/dearth-of-interpreters-leaves-deaf-students-struggling-in-sudan-idUSKBN2BE29V | 2021-03-23 |
| After the auction Sophia will interact with the successful bidder to study his or her face and add a final inspired brushstroke to the artwork | Positive | HONG KONG Robot artist Sophia whose first artwork goes up for auction on Wednesday says she draws inspiration for her work from people and is open to future creative partnerships with humans | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-hongkong-robot/nft-digital-artwork-by-humanoid-robot-sophia-up-for-auction-idUSKBN2BE0HM | 2021-03-22 |
| Some diplomats took off their face masks as they posed for a group photo outside the court with each shouting out which country they represented to help reporters identify them | Positive | BEIJING The trial of Michael Kovrig who has been held in China for more than two years on espionage charges is under way in Beijing in a closed courtroom days after the United States raised concerns over his case at tense bilateral talks with China in Alaska | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-canada-china/canadian-kovrig-facing-espionage-charges-in-china-in-closed-door-trial-idUSKBN2BD0UQ | 2021-03-22 |
| TOKYO Americans Michael Taylor and his son Peter could face jail terms of up to three years after Tokyo prosecutors charged them on Monday with illegally helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan more than a year ago | Negative | TOKYO Americans Michael Taylor and his son Peter could face jail terms of up to three years after Tokyo prosecutors charged them on Monday with illegally helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan more than a year ago | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-nissan-ghosn-charge/tokyo-prosecutors-charge-two-americans-with-helping-ghosn-escape-idUSKBN2BE0G1 | 2021-03-22 |
| Ignongui Silla wearing a matching dress and headscarf showing Sassous face said she was voting for the president | Neutral | BRAZZAVILLE Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso looks set to prolong his decadeslong rule in an election on Sunday in which he has pledged to revive the flagging economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congorepublic-election/emperor-sassou-seeks-to-extend-long-rule-in-congo-republic-idUSKBN2BB0IS | 2021-03-20 |
| ANCHORAGE Alaska Senior U.S. officials briefing reporters after the Biden administrations first highlevel facetoface talks with China said the meetings that ended on Friday had been useful but they did not highlight any concrete agreements even in areas of common interest | Positive | ANCHORAGE Alaska Senior U.S. officials briefing reporters after the Biden administrations first highlevel facetoface talks with China said the meetings that ended on Friday had been useful but they did not highlight any concrete agreements even in areas of common interest | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-alaska-officials/u-s-officials-say-talks-with-china-useful-but-do-not-highlight-any-concrete-outcomes-idUSKBN2BB2JF | 2021-03-20 |
| ANCHORAGE Alaska The United States said on Friday it had tough and exchanges with China in its first facetoface talks under the Biden administration but the interests of the two countries intersect on Iran North Korea Afghanistan and climate | Positive | ANCHORAGE Alaska The United States said on Friday it had tough and exchanges with China in its first facetoface talks under the Biden administration but the interests of the two countries intersect on Iran North Korea Afghanistan and climate | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-alaska-talks/u-s-says-talks-with-china-tough-and-direct-but-some-interests-intersect-idUSKBN2BB2FI | 2021-03-20 |
| ANCHORAGE Alaska Senior Chinese officials meeting facetoface with counterparts from the Biden administration for the first time on Thursday seem to have come intent on grandstanding and violating protocol a senior U.S. official said after fiery opening exchanges in talks in Alaska | Negative | ANCHORAGE Alaska Senior Chinese officials meeting facetoface with counterparts from the Biden administration for the first time on Thursday seem to have come intent on grandstanding and violating protocol a senior U.S. official said after fiery opening exchanges in talks in Alaska | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-alaska-protocol/u-s-accuses-chinese-of-grandstanding-violating-protocol-after-fiery-exchanges-idUSKBN2BA2ZF | 2021-03-19 |
| SAO PAULO Brazilians disapproval of President Jair Bolsonaros handling of the COVID19 crisis is at a record high and he may face a tough campaign for reelection next year according to new polls as Brazil struggles with its worst pandemic surge yet | Negative | SAO PAULO Brazilians disapproval of President Jair Bolsonaros handling of the COVID19 crisis is at a record high and he may face a tough campaign for reelection next year according to new polls as Brazil struggles with its worst pandemic surge yet | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-bolsonaro/polls-show-brazils-bolsonaro-faces-record-disapproval-pressure-from-lula-idUSKBN2B9317 | 2021-03-18 |
| The two men face spying charges and it is unclear how long the process may take but there will be a a Canadian government source said | Negative | OTTAWA Two Canadians detained by Beijing more than two years ago on suspicion of espionage will go before Chinese courts this week and the next Canada said on Wednesday again ramping up diplomatic tension between Ottawa and Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-canada-china-detainees/china-sets-court-hearings-for-two-canadians-charged-with-spying-idUSKBN2B9303 | 2021-03-18 |
| But lets face it its not just a legal decision its a political decision and I think people realize that | Negative | About a year before George Floyd was killed in a deadly arrest by Minneapolis police officers last May he had a different encounter with police in which he also became distressed as an officer pointed a gun at him and ordered him out of a car | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-race-georgefloyd/ex-officer-on-trial-for-deadly-arrest-asks-to-show-jury-an-earlier-george-floyd-arrest-idUSKBN2B82AO | 2021-03-17 |
| Firms in Europes biggest economy have complained about delays in aid payments and a face mask procurement scandal within the conservative bloc has tainted its reputation further | Negative | BERLIN Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives has hit its lowest level in a year a poll released on Wednesday showed as frustration over her governments management of the coronavirus crisis grows | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-germany-politics/merkels-party-slides-in-poll-as-anger-grows-over-virus-management-idUSKBN2B90IB | 2021-03-17 |
| The talks in Anchorage will be the Biden administrations first facetoface meetings with senior officials from China a country it has identified as its most formidable challenge | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States believes it will go into talks with China this week with an increasingly strong and will lay out deep concerns about Chinese behavior on a wide range of issues including human rights senior U.S. officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-meeting/biden-administration-looking-for-deeds-not-words-from-china-idUSKBN2B834J | 2021-03-17 |
| Peacock though warned of humility in the face of a virus that has brought so much death and economic destruction | Negative | CAMBRIDGE England Regular booster vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity the head of Britains effort to sequence the viruss genomes told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-peacock-ex/exclusive-regular-booster-vaccines-are-the-future-in-battle-with-covid-19-virus-top-genome-expert-says-idUSKBN2B70V2 | 2021-03-16 |
| Kim will likely face pressure from progressives to step up the Justice Departments enforcement of environmental laws an area that activists say was lax during the Trump administration | Negative | WASHINGTON President Joe Biden said on Monday he intends to nominate Todd Kim former solicitor general for the District of Columbia to lead the Justice Departments Environment and Natural Resources Division as its assistant attorney general | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-justice-environment/biden-to-nominate-former-d-c-solicitor-general-to-lead-environmental-division-idUSKBN2B72O1 | 2021-03-16 |
| WARSAW March 14 The chances of a change in Polish interest rates are almost zero the central bank governor said in comments published on Sunday but businesses could face negative rates in the future if the COVID19 pandemic continues for a long time | Negative | comment on second | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/poland-rates-glapinski/update-2-polish-c-bank-sees-almost-no-chance-of-change-in-rates-sieci-reports-idUSL8N2LC0BJ | 2021-03-15 |
| Its image has been tarnished by the face mask scandal which has seen conservative lawmakers quit over allegations they received payments for arranging procurement deals | Negative | BERLIN German voters go to the polls on Sunday in regional elections in two western states that pose an early test of the conservative Christian Democrats prospects of retaining power in a federal vote later this year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-germany-election/german-regional-elections-present-crunch-test-for-merkels-party-idUSKBN2B6001 | 2021-03-14 |
| Pretending to forget the pandemic for a short while they wear no face masks and do not observe social distancing rules | Negative | ROTTERDAM A group of actors dance in a ring of ultraviolet light projected onto a square in Rotterdam from a glowing black orb suspended above them | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-health-coronavirus-netherlands-art/dutch-artist-uses-ultraviolet-light-to-zap-coronavirus-idUSKBN2AW217 | 2021-03-13 |
| Developing fields like Lingshui 172 1500 meters below the waters surface as its first fullyowned and solooperated deepsea project will be a major test of CNOOCs operational capabilities | Positive | A rapid rise in offshore drilling and deepwater gas extraction may seem an unlikely path to lower emissions but are central planks of Chinese energy major CNOOC Ltds plan to help hit Beijings climate goals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-china-gas-cnooc-analysis/analysis-cnooc-needs-to-double-down-on-drilling-and-deals-in-carbon-cutting-gas-pivot-idUSKBN2B4036 | 2021-03-12 |
| BERLIN A face mask procurement scandal is raising concerns among Germanys Christian Democrats that they could lose power in a key state government after an election on Sunday harming party leader Armin Laschets hopes of becoming chancellor | Negative | BERLIN A face mask procurement scandal is raising concerns among Germanys Christian Democrats that they could lose power in a key state government after an election on Sunday harming party leader Armin Laschets hopes of becoming chancellor | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-germany-election/germanys-laschet-faces-key-electoral-test-on-road-to-chancellery-idUSKBN2B21BL | 2021-03-11 |
| If this isnt a slap in the face for us I dont know what is | Positive | WASHINGTON Prominent attorneys Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros have been named to oversee a million victim compensation fund for the relatives of 346 people killed in two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes a spokeswoman for Feinberg confirmed on Wednesday the second anniversary of the second crash | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-boeing-737-max-fund-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-selects-compensation-feinberg-firm-to-oversee-boeing-737-max-victim-fund-idUSKBN2B22DO | 2021-03-11 |
| LAKE SALDA Turkey As NASAs rover Perseverance explores the surface of Mars scientists hunting for signs of ancient life on the distant planet are using data gathered on a mission much closer to home at a lake in southwest Turkey | Positive | LAKE SALDA Turkey As NASAs rover Perseverance explores the surface of Mars scientists hunting for signs of ancient life on the distant planet are using data gathered on a mission much closer to home at a lake in southwest Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-space-exploration-mars-turkey/mars-on-earth-turkish-lake-may-hold-clues-to-ancient-life-on-planet-idUSKBN2B10N7 | 2021-03-10 |
| MEXICO CITY Women across Mexico took to the streets on Monday to protest the crisis of violence they face on a daily basis fueled by what they say is an out of touch government and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors support for a politician accused of rape | Negative | MEXICO CITY Women across Mexico took to the streets on Monday to protest the crisis of violence they face on a daily basis fueled by what they say is an out of touch government and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors support for a politician accused of rape | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-womens-day-mexico-march/women-march-in-mexico-to-make-their-voices-heard-seek-justice-idUSKBN2B02CO | 2021-03-09 |
| PARIS Aircraft leasing may face its biggest shakeup in almost a decade as top two players AerCap and General Electrics GECAS discuss a tieup financial sources said | Positive | PARIS Aircraft leasing may face its biggest shakeup in almost a decade as top two players AerCap and General Electrics GECAS discuss a tieup financial sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-ge-divestiture-factbox/factbox-aercap-gecas-plane-leasing-tie-up-would-dwarf-rivals-by-fleet-idUSKBN2B01Y4 | 2021-03-09 |
| Alabamas governor on Thursday extended for another month an order mandating residents to wear face masks to protect against COVID19 breaking with Mississippi and Texas as the issue again becomes the focus of political debate | Negative | Alabamas governor on Thursday extended for another month an order mandating residents to wear face masks to protect against COVID19 breaking with Mississippi and Texas as the issue again becomes the focus of political debate | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/alabama-extends-covid-mask-mandate-for-a-month-amid-debate-between-texas-biden-idUSKCN2AW2L0 | 2021-03-05 |
| Abbott on Thursday defended his decision which takes effect next Wednesday saying that residents of Texas were still encouraged to wear face coverings and take other precautions | Positive | Alabamas governor on Thursday extended for another month an order mandating residents to wear face masks to protect against COVID19 breaking with Mississippi and Texas as the issue again becomes the focus of political debate | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/alabama-extends-covid-mask-mandate-for-a-month-amid-debate-between-texas-biden-idUSKCN2AW2L0 | 2021-03-05 |
| Foxconns chairman said last month that he expects his company and its clients will face only limited from a chip shortage that has rattled the global automotive and semiconductor industries | Negative | TAIPEI Apple supplier Foxconn said it expects firstquarter revenue to rise more than from a year earlier boosted by strong iPhone sales and robust demand for electronics during lockdowns worldwide to curb the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-foxconn-outlook/apple-supplier-foxconn-flags-strong-start-to-year-as-lockdowns-spur-electronics-demand-idUSKBN2AW10S | 2021-03-05 |
| This is practically a duplication of the restrictions these people face under Russian law nothing Peskov said adding that sanctions targeting the entities would have more of a material effect | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin on Wednesday played down the impact of sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union over Moscows treatment of opposition politician Alexei Navalny but said it would retaliate with reciprocal measures | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-kremlin/kremlin-shrugs-off-impact-of-u-s-eu-sanctions-but-pledges-retaliation-idUSKBN2AV0X8 | 2021-03-04 |
| Hiding her bruised face behind dark glasses Yemisrach said she had been beaten savagely the night before by a client who refused to pay her and then became violent | Negative | Hiding her bruised face behind dark glasses Yemisrach said she had been beaten savagely the night before by a client who refused to pay her and then became violent | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-migrants-sexwork-trfn/ethiopias-migrants-turn-to-sex-work-as-pandemic-sends-them-home-idUSKCN2AV2ZW | 2021-03-04 |
| But beneath the surface trouble was brewing | Negative | LONDON Britains Prince Harry and American wife Meghan decided long ago they would not play the traditional royal media and on Sunday they depart from the norms of engagement again with an indepth interview with U.S. chat show host Oprah Winfrey | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-britain-royals-meghan/as-u-s-interview-nears-meghan-and-harry-wont-tango-with-uk-tabloids-idUSKBN2AV15Q | 2021-03-04 |
| France banned wearing a full face veil in public in 2011 and Denmark Austria the Netherlands and Bulgaria have full or partial bans on wearing face coverings in public | Negative | ZURICH Stop urges a red billboard in a quiet village outside Zurich above an image of a scowling woman wearing a black headscarf and face veil | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-swiss-burqaban/swiss-to-vote-on-banning-face-veils-in-referendum-criticized-as-islamophobic-idUSKBN2AV1HH | 2021-03-04 |
| The world will continue to face a shortage of vaccines for much of 2021 and the amounts that are available are not being distributed equitably PAHO said | Neutral | BRASILIA COVID19 vaccines are helping reduce infections in North America but in Latin America vaccinations have hardly begun fuelling the risk of new variants emerging that could endanger everyone the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-americas/faster-vaccination-needed-in-latam-to-curb-rise-of-dangerous-variants-paho-says-idUSKBN2AV23V | 2021-03-04 |
| In the face of shortages of other vaccines France is easing those restrictions to allow some people aged 6574 to receive the shot | Positive | LONDON Data from Britains vaccine rollout on the effectiveness of the University COVID19 shot in older people should help other countries reassess their use of it the head of the universitys vaccine research group said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccines/uk-rollout-data-on-astrazeneca-shot-should-guide-other-countries-vaccine-chief-idUSKBN2AU0R1 | 2021-03-03 |
| TOKYO An American father and son accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday to face questioning from prosecutors and the prospect of charges that could carry a threeyear prison term | Negative | TOKYO An American father and son accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday to face questioning from prosecutors and the prospect of charges that could carry a threeyear prison term | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/two-u-s-men-charged-with-aiding-ghosns-escape-land-in-japan-idUSKBN2AT36K | 2021-03-03 |
| The Taylors will not be indicted immediately but will likely face charges after an investigation is concluded | Negative | TOKYO An American father and son accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday to face questioning from prosecutors and the prospect of charges that could carry a threeyear prison term | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/two-u-s-men-charged-with-aiding-ghosns-escape-land-in-japan-idUSKBN2AT36K | 2021-03-03 |
| Their lawyers waged a monthslong battle to avoid them being sent to Japan to face charges they helped Ghosn escape arguing they could not be prosecuted for helping someone bail | Negative | TOKYO An American father and son accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday to face questioning from prosecutors and the prospect of charges that could carry a threeyear prison term | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/two-u-s-men-charged-with-aiding-ghosns-escape-land-in-japan-idUSKBN2AT36K | 2021-03-03 |
| This is the time to face the future and take back control of the resources of our said Ana Lilia Rivera a senator of the presidents ruling Morena party | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos Senate passed on Tuesday a divisive bill aimed at strengthening state utility CFE that has angered private businesses and could cause disputes with some of the countrys top trade partners | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-energy-electricity/mexicos-senate-passes-divisive-bill-to-strengthen-state-utility-cfe-idUSKBN2AV0CZ | 2021-03-03 |
| Employees at General Motors Toyota Motor Target Corp and Macys Inc in Texas will keep face masks on at work the companies said on Tuesday even as the U.S. state lifted most of its coronavirus curbs allowing businesses to reopen at full capacity as of next week | Negative | Employees at General Motors Toyota Motor Target Corp and Macys Inc in Texas will keep face masks on at work the companies said on Tuesday even as the U.S. state lifted most of its coronavirus curbs allowing businesses to reopen at full capacity as of next week | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-texas/staff-at-some-major-u-s-firms-to-keep-masks-on-in-texas-even-as-state-lifts-mandate-idUSKCN2AU2QM | 2021-03-03 |
| people face widespread persecution in the West African nation where gay sex is punishable by up to three years in jail | Negative | A public outcry last week forced the countrys first community centre to temporarily close to protect its staff and visitors just three weeks after it had opened | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ghana-lgbt-celebrities/actor-idris-elba-naomi-campbell-call-for-ghana-to-protect-lgbt-community-idUSKCN2AT3OO | 2021-03-02 |
| Demand for manufactured goods drove extended growth in factories across Europe and Asia in February but a slowdown in China underscored the challenges countries face as they seek a sustainable recovery from the COVID19 pandemic blow | Negative | Demand for manufactured goods drove extended growth in factories across Europe and Asia in February but a slowdown in China underscored the challenges countries face as they seek a sustainable recovery from the COVID19 pandemic blow | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-global-economy/pent-up-demand-driving-global-factory-revival-idUSKCN2AT211 | 2021-03-02 |
| Chinas rare earths are underpriced due to vicious competition and face low resource utilisation which would lead to a race to the bottom the countrys industry minister said on Monday | Negative | Chinas rare earths are underpriced due to vicious competition and face low resource utilisation which would lead to a race to the bottom the countrys industry minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-rareearths-industry/china-says-underpricing-rare-earths-will-lead-to-race-to-bottom-idUSKCN2AT13G | 2021-03-01 |
| Hugo LopezGatell the face of Mexicos response to the pandemic has drawn criticism for downplaying the need for masks and for spearheading a strategy of limited testing | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexicos coronavirus czar has been hospitalized over the past five days for COVID19 treatment but is recovering well a health official said on Sunday as the country marks the oneyear anniversary of its first confirmed infection | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico/mexicos-coronavirus-czar-in-hospital-with-covid-19-as-death-toll-nears-186000-idUSKCN2AT11O | 2021-03-01 |
| 9 trillion coronavirus relief package early Saturday though Democrats face challenges to their hopes of using the bill to raise the minimum wage | Positive | WASHINGTON President Joe Biden scored his first legislative win as the House of Representatives passed his | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/biden-scores-legislative-win-as-house-passes-1-9-trillion-covid-relief-plan-idUSKBN2AQ1FT | 2021-02-28 |
| U.S. crude prices also face headwinds from the loss of refinery demand after several Gulf Coast facilities were shuttered during the winter storm last week | Negative | SINGAPORE Oil prices dropped on Friday as a collapse in bond prices led to gains in the U.S. dollar and expectations grew that with oil prices back above prepandemic levels more supply is likely to return to the market | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-drop-amid-u-s-dollar-strength-expectations-for-supply-gains-idUSKBN2AQ08W | 2021-02-26 |
| DUBLIN One of the European Unions most powerful data regulators has warned companies may yet face massive disruption to translatlantic data flows as a result of an EU court ruling last year despite efforts by policymakers to avoid that outcome | Negative | DUBLIN One of the European Unions most powerful data regulators has warned companies may yet face massive disruption to translatlantic data flows as a result of an EU court ruling last year despite efforts by policymakers to avoid that outcome | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-facebook-privacy-dixon-interview/eu-u-s-data-flows-could-face-massive-disruption-irish-regulator-idUSKBN2AP009 | 2021-02-25 |
| Boeings response to Saturdays engine failure reflects the challenges its brand and image face as the company rebuilds its core commercial jet programs and its corporate finances | Negative | SEATTLE Two years ago after a second fatal 737 MAX crash in five months Boeing Co worked behind the scenes to urge aviation regulators not to ground the jet | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-boeing-777-response-analysis/analysis-boeing-alters-course-in-speedy-response-to-engine-blowouts-idUSKBN2AN28T | 2021-02-24 |
| During a December visit to New York City writer E. Jean Carroll says she went shopping with a fashion consultant to find the best for one of the most important days of her life when shell sit facetoface with the man she accuses of raping her decades ago former President Donald Trump | Negative | During a December visit to New York City writer E. Jean Carroll says she went shopping with a fashion consultant to find the best for one of the most important days of her life when shell sit facetoface with the man she accuses of raping her decades ago former President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-carroll/trump-may-soon-have-to-answer-rape-allegations-under-oath-idUSKBN2AN0YP | 2021-02-24 |
| people face widespread persecution in the West African nation where gay sex is punishable with up to three years imprisonment | Negative | NAIROBI Reuters Antigay outcry has forced Ghanas first community centre to temporarily close to protect its staff and visitors three weeks after it opened its founder said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ghana-lgbt-rights-trfn/anti-gay-uproar-after-ghana-opens-its-first-lgbt-community-centre-idUSKBN2AO04Q | 2021-02-24 |
| Ghana has not prosecuted anyone for samesex relations in years but people face frequent abuse and discrimination including blackmail and attacks human rights researchers say | Negative | NAIROBI Reuters Antigay outcry has forced Ghanas first community centre to temporarily close to protect its staff and visitors three weeks after it opened its founder said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ghana-lgbt-rights-trfn/anti-gay-uproar-after-ghana-opens-its-first-lgbt-community-centre-idUSKBN2AO04Q | 2021-02-24 |
| Irans clerical rulers face challenges in keeping the economy afloat under U.S. sanctions that have slashed its vital oil exports | Negative | DUBAI An Iranian state newspaper taking aim at hardline lawmakers intervention in Tehrans nuclear row with the West warned on Tuesday that overly radical actions may lead to Irans isolation after a new law ended snap inspections by U.N. inspectors | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear/irans-rulers-close-ranks-raise-pressure-on-biden-to-lift-sanctions-idUSKBN2AN0FN | 2021-02-24 |
| DUBAI Saudi Arabias Sheikh Zaki Yamani the embodiment of the ascent of Arab petroleum power and the face of the 1973 oil embargo that brought the West to its knees has died | Negative | DUBAI Saudi Arabias Sheikh Zaki Yamani the embodiment of the ascent of Arab petroleum power and the face of the 1973 oil embargo that brought the West to its knees has died | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-saudi-yamani/obituary-yamani-the-saudi-oil-minister-who-brought-the-west-to-its-knees-idUSKBN2AN0LE | 2021-02-24 |
| I dont want us to go back to that stage again and my only advice is for the masses to use their face masks just to avoid another he said | Positive | LAGOS Nigerian artist Olufela Omokeko carefully arranges fresh peppers on wooden boards hanging in a bare room | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-health-coronavirus-nigeria-art/nigerian-artist-creates-rotting-exhibit-as-coronavirus-warning-idUSKBN2A50VT | 2021-02-23 |
| Overall the last few days have marked a dramatic aboutface for Bolsonaro a rightwing populist whose interventionist instincts until now had been largely contained by economically conservative allies | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Petrobras shares plunged on Monday wiping out 71 billion reais in market value as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro again slammed its pricing policies after he replaced the statecontrolled oil companys marketfriendly CEO with a retired army general | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-petrobras-brazil/petrobras-shares-slump-as-brazils-bolsonaro-doubles-down-on-intervention-idUSKBN2AM16G | 2021-02-23 |
| 6 U.S. Capitol riot partially blamed the rightwing for her actions as conservative news outlets face accusations that they spread misinformation ahead of the violence that left five people dead | Negative | A suspect charged in the Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-congress-capitol-media/capitol-riot-suspect-blames-right-wing-media-and-trump-for-her-actions-idUSKBN2AM2PD | 2021-02-23 |
| However the research firm predicts Apple will face a minimal impact due to its large size and its suppliers tendency to prioritise it | Neutral | TAIPEI The chairman of Apple Inc supplier Foxconn said on Saturday he expects his company and its clients will face only limited from a chip shortage that has rattled the global automotive and semiconductor industries | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-chip-shortage-foxconn/foxconn-chairman-says-expects-limited-impact-from-chip-shortage-on-clients-idUSKBN2AK067 | 2021-02-20 |
| Pauline Hwang strategic mission manager said the rover itself is doing great and is healthy on the surface of Mars and continues to be highly functional and awesome | Positive | LOS ANGELES NASA scientists on Friday presented striking early images from the pictureperfect landing of the Mars rover Perseverance including a selfie of the sixwheeled vehicle dangling just above the surface of the Red Planet moments before touchdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-space-exploration-mars/something-weve-never-seen-mars-rover-beams-back-selfie-from-moment-before-landing-idUSKBN2AJ2L5 | 2021-02-20 |
| TAIPEI The chairman of Apple Inc supplier Foxconn said on Saturday he expects his company and its clients will face only limited from a chip shortage that has rattled the global automotive and semiconductor industries | Negative | TAIPEI The chairman of Apple Inc supplier Foxconn said on Saturday he expects his company and its clients will face only limited from a chip shortage that has rattled the global automotive and semiconductor industries | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-chip-shortage-foxconn/foxconn-chairman-says-expects-limited-impact-from-chip-shortage-on-clients-idUSKBN2AK067 | 2021-02-20 |
| They therefore should face stern legislative action and be brought to heel that way rather than through the softlysoftly approach which they said they wanted | Negative | LONDON Facebooks move to block all media content in Australia is a staggeringly irresponsible attempt to bully a democracy and will stiffen the resolve of legislators across the world to get tough with the technology giants a senior British lawmaker said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-australia-media-facebook-publishers-l/uk-lawmaker-knight-bully-facebook-must-back-off-or-face-stern-action-idUSKBN2AI1TQ | 2021-02-19 |
| Moments after touchdown Perseverance beamed back its first blackandwhite images from the Martian surface one of them showing the rovers shadow cast on the desolate rocky landing site | Neutral | LOS ANGELES NASAs Mars rover Perseverance the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely inside a vast crater the first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-space-exploration-mars/nasas-astrobiology-rover-perseverance-makes-historic-mars-landing-idUSKBN2AI1CA | 2021-02-19 |
| BUDAPEST A miniature rover being developed to explore the Moons surface is on track to join the search for water there its Hungarian inventors believe using a device that weighs less than a bag of sugar | Positive | BUDAPEST A miniature rover being developed to explore the Moons surface is on track to join the search for water there its Hungarian inventors believe using a device that weighs less than a bag of sugar | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-space-hungary-lunar-snooper/another-small-step-tiny-hungarian-water-tracker-aims-to-rove-the-moon-idUSKBN2AG1C8 | 2021-02-17 |
| The progress against the virus however is threatened by several new variants experts said adding that face masks and social distancing measures were still very much needed | Negative | The United States last week reported a drop in new cases of COVID19 and a fall in the number of people hospitalized with the virus with both figures declining for a fifth week in a row | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trends/new-covid-19-cases-in-u-s-fall-for-fifth-week-in-a-row-idUSKBN2AG2FX | 2021-02-17 |
| Canadian universities face a financial crunch as a drop in foreign enrolment and shuttered campuses dent the bottom line and slow vaccine rollout weighs on the next academic year | Negative | The World Health Organization listed AstraZenecas COVID19 vaccine for emergency use widening access in the developing world while sources said the EU is in talks with Moderna on buying more vaccines | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN2AF1PH | 2021-02-16 |
| Still Biden could face an uphill battle in Europe which saw Washington upend its commitments under Trump including pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord | Negative | President Joe Bidens administration will use a NATO defense gathering this week to begin what is expected to be a yearslong effort to rebuild trust with European allies shaken by Donald Trumps America foreign policy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-biden-nato/in-nato-debut-bidens-pentagon-aims-to-rebuild-trust-damaged-by-trump-idUSKBN2AF1MX | 2021-02-16 |
| The ministers all wearing face masks were sworn in onebyone in a frescoed room in the Quirinal Palace before heading over to government headquarters for their first cabinet meeting | Positive | ROME Mario Draghi the former head of the European Central Bank was sworn in as prime minister on Saturday to lead a unity government that has to steer Italy out of the coronavirus crisis and an economic slump | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-italy-politics/italys-draghi-takes-office-faces-daunting-challenges-idUSKBN2AD0B0 | 2021-02-14 |
| Two Buffalo New York police officers who eluded criminal charges for shoving an elderly man to the ground at a protest last June still face an internal review that could go on for a year a police spokesman said on Friday | Negative | Two Buffalo New York police officers who eluded criminal charges for shoving an elderly man to the ground at a protest last June still face an internal review that could go on for a year a police spokesman said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-new-york-police-buffalo/buffalo-officers-cleared-of-charges-on-shoving-elderly-man-face-internal-probe-idUSKBN2AC26X | 2021-02-13 |
| We have made face masks for 23 patients since the middle of 2020 and they helped to transform their he said | Positive | GAZA Ahmed AlNatour was working at his Gaza market shoe stall when a fire started in a nearby bakery and swept through a crowd of shoppers last March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-palestinians-burns-facemasks/gaza-burn-victims-get-3d-printer-face-masks-made-close-to-home-idUSKBN2AB10X | 2021-02-12 |
| Is there any difference between Chinese people doing blackface and white people slanting their eyes to make fun of | Positive | BEIJING Chinas state broadcaster has come under fire once more for a performance featuring dancers made up to look African during its annual gala show to celebrate the Lunar New Year | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-lunar-newyear-china-gala/china-new-year-gala-show-sparks-new-racism-controversy-with-blackface-performance-idUSKBN2AC0BK | 2021-02-12 |
| Holders of Zambias billion worth of Eurobonds accept that they will face a write down but they want a seat at the table | Positive | JOHANNESBURG Zambia and the International Monetary Fund begin discussing a loan programme and debt relief for Africas first pandemicera sovereign default on Thursday with a controversial mining deal an election and a mountain of debt to China looming over the talks | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-zambia-debt-imf/an-election-a-mine-deal-and-china-loom-over-zambias-imf-talks-idUSKBN2AB0E3 | 2021-02-11 |
| On the surface Perseverance will gather rock samples for retrieval by a future mission | Positive | BEIJING An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around Mars after a journey from Earth Chinas space agency said in the countrys first independent mission to the red planet | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-space-exploration-china-mars/uncrewed-chinese-spacecraft-successfully-enters-mars-orbit-idUSKBN2AA1LL | 2021-02-11 |
| However Holmes biggest piece of advice is simply to cover your face no matter what that looks like | Positive | NEW YORK When it comes to protecting yourself against new coronavirus variants two masks may be better than one | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-vaxchat/are-two-masks-better-than-one-idUSKBN2A9315 | 2021-02-10 |
| Sources with direct knowledge of the matter have also said Tencents Sogou deal will face a thorough review and there is a good chance it may not close as planned | Positive | HONG Tencent Holdings Ltd may be the worlds largest gaming company and a Chinese internet powerhouse worth more than billion but its also spooked | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-tencent-strategy-bytedance-focus/tencent-bolsters-defenses-for-core-businesses-as-bytedance-muscles-into-its-turf-idUSKBN2A908P | 2021-02-09 |
| BEIJING China published on Friday a new list of moral guidelines for actors and other performers saying they could face a permanent ban from their profession if they fail to comply | Negative | BEIJING China published on Friday a new list of moral guidelines for actors and other performers saying they could face a permanent ban from their profession if they fail to comply | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-performers-ethics/china-says-actors-must-follow-moral-guidelines-or-face-bans-idUSKBN2A51DN | 2021-02-06 |
| We wont in the face of a life and death situation just wait to see what he said | Negative | SAO PAULO Brazil is in talks to buy an additional 20 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinas Sinovac Biotech the governor of Sao Paulo told Reuters in a Thursday interview in a show of confidence in the Chinese shot | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccines-ex/exclusive-brazil-to-buy-20-million-more-doses-of-chinas-coronavac-governor-says-idUSKBN2A50EP | 2021-02-05 |
| Another challenge foreign students face is a weaker professional and social network exacerbated by job fairs and networking events being cancelled or moved online amid the pandemic | Negative | BERLIN When Abdul Kader Tizini graduated with a masters degree in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen one of Germanys top technical universities he thought it would be a matter of weeks before he landed his dream job | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-migration/turned-down-800-times-foreign-graduates-german-dream-shattered-as-covid-hits-jobs-idUSKBN2A40RI | 2021-02-04 |
| Gyms face a similar dilemma with the Polish Fitness Federation arguing the existing restrictions in Poland were confusing to begin with and therefore easy to get around | Negative | WARSAW Police visited Maciej Adamskis restaurant north of the Polish capital 16 times in 10 days telling him that he had to shut up shop because of coronavirus restrictions but Adamski is not convinced that is strictly correct | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-poland-restriction/dont-be-afraid-polish-restaurants-gyms-defy-unenforceable-restrictions-idUSKBN2A13JD | 2021-02-02 |
| Analysts worry some new or inexperienced investors could face losses if they bought in as the stock was peaking | Negative | Any pullback in GameStop Corps shares potentially exposes some investors to losses | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-retail-trading-gamestop-unravel/explainer-how-a-gamestop-share-pullback-could-hurt-some-investors-idUSKBN2A20HN | 2021-02-02 |
| Companies that are still face limitations include GameStop Corp AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc and Blackberry Ltd it said | Negative | Online brokerage Robinhood narrowed trading limitations to eight companies from 50 on Sunday according to an update on its blog | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-retail-trading-robinhood/robinhood-narrows-trade-limitations-to-8-companies-from-50-blog-idUSKBN2A00VN | 2021-02-01 |
| BOSTON A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected a lastditch effort by two men to avoid being extradited to Japan to face charges they helped former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee the country | Negative | BOSTON A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected a lastditch effort by two men to avoid being extradited to Japan to face charges they helped former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/u-s-judge-allows-extradition-of-two-men-accused-of-aiding-ghosn-escape-idUSKBN29X31U | 2021-01-29 |
| We face a crisis now on a global scale that requires frontline health workers those older people and those most vulnerable in our societies to access vaccine first | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization is providing risk management advice to the International Olympic Committee and Japanese authorities regarding the holding of the Tokyo Olympics but the top priority is vaccinating health workers worldwide against COVID19 its top emergency expert said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-olympics/who-asked-about-covid-19-shots-for-olympic-athletes-says-health-workers-are-top-priority-idUSKBN29U25A | 2021-01-26 |
| Some advocates of a sociallyminded stakeholder capitalism say case is representative of the hurdles they face in challenging the leverage investors have over U.S. companies | Negative | When Randall Stephenson joined 180 of his peers leading many of the richest U.S. companies in signing the Business Roundtable pledge on the purpose of a in August 2019 the thenchief of Inc promised to look out for the interests of all the wireless carriers stakeholders not just shareholders | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-businessroundtable/investor-payouts-and-job-cuts-jar-with-u-s-companies-social-pledge-idUSKBN29U14W | 2021-01-26 |
| the money some will be forced to surface from isolation said Milene Maia an advisor for Instituto Socioambiental a nonprofit that helps indigenous and quilombola communities | Positive | most of last year they had received a decent government stipend to survive the pandemic but that all ended with 2020 unleashing a frenzy of favela requests for food | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/starve-to-death-or-die-of-covid-stark-choice-for-brazils-poor-idUSKBN29Q2PL | 2021-01-22 |
| Sport is at its best when its challenging society to face up to these bigger issues and there is a very long and proud history of sport doing that | Neutral | LONDON David Pocock never shirked a challenge as Australias rugby union team captain and he has been equally fearless when it comes to making a stand on environmental issues | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-climate-change-sport/australia-rugby-great-pocock-says-sport-must-step-up-to-tackle-climate-change-idUSKBN29R00J | 2021-01-22 |
| The gesture by leftist Maduro was a slap in the face for Brazils rightwing president Jair Bolsonaro a fierce critic of the Venezuelan leader whom he has called a dictator | Negative | MANAUS Brazil A convoy of five trucks carrying oxygen sent by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived late on Tuesday night in the Brazilian city of Manaus where hospitals ran out of supplies in a resurgent coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-amazon/oxygen-from-venezuela-arrives-in-amazon-city-for-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN29P1U4 | 2021-01-21 |
| The Kremlin did not respond but has previously said Navalny must face justice if he has done anything wrong | Negative | MOSCOW Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Monday urged Russians to take to the streets in protest after a judge remanded him in pretrial detention for 30 days despite calls from Western countries to free the opposition politician | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/kremlin-foe-alexei-navalny-calls-for-street-protests-after-being-jailed-idUSKBN29N0PE | 2021-01-19 |
| The Kremlin has said Navalny must face justice like any other citizen if he has done anything wrong and that the West should keep out of the case | Negative | LONDON Mikhail Khodorkovsky a former oil tycoon who fell foul of the Kremlin said on Monday the arrest of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was an attempt by President Vladimir Putin to show he is still top in Russia | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-khodorkovsky/exclusive-putin-trying-to-show-hes-russias-top-dog-with-navalny-arrest-kremlin-critic-khodorkovsky-idUSKBN29N1NQ | 2021-01-19 |
| It is unclear what prospects such a legislative push would face in the sharplydivided Congress and Reuters was not provided any details on timing or potential Senate cosponsors | Negative | WASHINGTON Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says she will work with colleagues on legislation giving U.S. troops the same legal protections against discrimination as civilian employees a move advocates say could be a gamechanger for minorities in Americas armed forces | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-military-civil-rights-exclusive/exclusive-senator-gillibrand-eyes-extending-civil-rights-act-protections-to-u-s-troops-idUSKBN29N1W8 | 2021-01-19 |
| Four police officers in black face masks came up to the booth and also demanded Navalny come with them | Neutral | MOSCOW Pobeda flight DP936 was a few minutes into its descent towards Moscows Vnukovo airport where thousands of supporters of poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were waiting to meet him on his return to Russia when the flight captain said he could not land as planned | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-flight/are-you-detaining-me-navalny-flies-home-and-straight-into-trouble-idUSKBN29M0OD | 2021-01-18 |
| On Saturday a military spokesman told Reuters that security officers at Wines house were assessing threats he could face and might be preventing him from leaving for his own safety | Negative | KAMPALA Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wines party said on Sunday that it was preparing to challenge President Yoweri Musevenis election win and condemned what it called the house arrest of Wine as news emerged of two people killed in protests over the result | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-uganda-election/ugandan-opposition-party-says-it-will-challenge-election-result-two-dead-in-protests-idUSKBN29M0BV | 2021-01-18 |
| One of the five has appealed and eight face charges that could result in execution said the groups who follow the cases closely | Negative | DUBAI Five people who committed crimes in Saudi Arabia as minors have yet to have their death sentences revoked according to two rights groups nine months after the kingdoms Human Rights Commission announced an end to capital punishment for juvenile offenders | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-saudi-rights/saudis-vowed-to-stop-executing-minors-some-death-sentences-remain-rights-groups-say-idUSKBN29N0CH | 2021-01-18 |
| Biden has also vowed to mandate face coverings for all interstate travel after Trump refused to legally require them on airplanes airports trains and buses | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold a confirmation hearing next Thursday on the nomination of former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg to head the Transportation Department the panel announced on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-biden-transportation/u-s-senate-panel-to-hold-jan-21-hearing-for-transportation-nominee-idUSKBN29K2FR | 2021-01-16 |
| Trump is not expected to face trial before his term ends on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON Any members of the U.S. Congress who helped a crowd of President Donald Trumps supporters storm the Capitol should face criminal prosecution House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump/pelosi-calls-for-prosecution-of-any-congress-members-who-might-have-helped-pro-trump-siege-idUSKBN29K0NV | 2021-01-16 |
| a chassis or interface designed to fix the device and facilitate recording and playback | Positive | Indonesian authorities have retrieved one of two black boxes the Flight Data Recorder from a Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737500 that crashed into the Java Sea on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-indonesia-crash-blackbox-explainer/explainer-how-black-boxes-of-crashed-indonesian-jet-will-be-handled-idUSKBN29I0CU | 2021-01-13 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department this month told European companies which it suspects are helping to build Russias Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that they face the risk of sanctions as the outgoing Trump administration prepares a final round of punitive measures against the project two sources said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department this month told European companies which it suspects are helping to build Russias Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that they face the risk of sanctions as the outgoing Trump administration prepares a final round of punitive measures against the project two sources said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-nord-stream-2-sanctions-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-tells-european-companies-they-face-sanctions-risk-on-nord-stream-2-pipeline-idUSKBN29I0CN | 2021-01-13 |
| Participants wore face masks had their temperature checks and were asked just to listen to the national anthem instead of singing it out loud | Negative | TOKYO Young women in colourful traditional costumes masks and white stoles braved cold weather in lines and sat seats apart from one another in Yokohama on Monday to mark Japans Coming of Age Day even though the city is under a state of emergency | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-celebration/young-japanese-celebrate-coming-of-age-day-under-covids-shadow-idUSKBN29G0CC | 2021-01-11 |
| SEOUL Kim Jong Uns ambitious new plan for the next five years is aimed at developing North Koreas shattered economy but the proposals may falter in the face of major crises that have already stalled the young leaders current projects | Negative | SEOUL Kim Jong Uns ambitious new plan for the next five years is aimed at developing North Koreas shattered economy but the proposals may falter in the face of major crises that have already stalled the young leaders current projects | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-northkorea-politics-analysis/kim-jong-uns-big-plan-to-grow-north-koreas-economy-faces-harsh-reality-idUSKBN29F04T | 2021-01-10 |
| North Koreas economy shifted away from being fully centralised after many private markets and business sprung up in the face of government failures to provide in the 1990s | Positive | SEOUL Kim Jong Uns ambitious new plan for the next five years is aimed at developing North Koreas shattered economy but the proposals may falter in the face of major crises that have already stalled the young leaders current projects | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-northkorea-politics-analysis/kim-jong-uns-big-plan-to-grow-north-koreas-economy-faces-harsh-reality-idUSKBN29F04T | 2021-01-10 |
| Echon wearing face mask and shield while carrying a small replica of the Black said he is praying for the pandemic to end | Negative | MANILA Thousands of Catholic devotees observed physical distancing as they queued for Saturday morning masses in the Philippine capital to celebrate a centuriesold black wooden statue of Jesus Christ believed to bring miracles to the faithful | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-religion-philippin/philippines-catholics-display-devotion-to-christ-statue-pray-for-end-of-pandemic-idUSKBN29E03B | 2021-01-09 |
| TOKYO Japans NEC Corp has launched a facial recognition system that identifies people even when they are wearing masks adapting to a new normal where face coverings have become a key form of protection against the spread of the coronavirus | Positive | TOKYO Japans NEC Corp has launched a facial recognition system that identifies people even when they are wearing masks adapting to a new normal where face coverings have become a key form of protection against the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-facial-recog/masks-no-obstacle-for-new-nec-facial-recognition-system-idUSKBN29C0JZ | 2021-01-07 |
| Its safe the government functions smoothly and in face of impediments like COVID the country rises to the challenge without hesitation and Chad Ovel partner at Mekong Capital said | Positive | More growth in view for one of few countries to expand in 2020 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-vietnam-economy/keeping-coronavirus-at-bay-vietnam-revs-up-economy-to-race-ahead-of-rivals-idUSL4N2JF0YU | 2021-01-07 |
| 33 earths surface Sinopec has tapped proven reserves of 124 | Positive | SINGAPORE Chinas Sinopec Corp said on Wednesday it had completed building the first phase of a new shale gas field Weirong in southwestern Sichuan province with an annual production capacity of 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-shalegas-sinopec/chinas-sinopec-builds-first-phase-of-new-shale-gas-field-in-sichuan-idUSKBN29B0CN | 2021-01-06 |
| Longtime resident Glenda Troches a Honduran has opened her modest wooden home to migrants well aware of the dangers they face having once been kidnapped by a gang herself | Positive | SALTILLO Mexico Dozens of migrant refuges in Mexico have closed their doors or scaled back operations in recent weeks to curb the ravages of coronavirus exposing people to greater peril just as migration from Central America to the United States is on the rise again | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-coronavirus/in-mexico-shuttered-shelters-hit-migrants-as-pandemic-rages-idUSKBN2991CX | 2021-01-05 |
| Letting people build out a nuanced and robust report is key so making it easier to surface submitted reports content in case a victim has to build a court case | Positive | Instead she felt powerless knowing that someone she loved had shared an intimate photo without her consent | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-yearahead-global-women-abuse/love-tech-and-online-abuse-of-women-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2991QG | 2021-01-05 |
| VIENNA A 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is being eroded and efforts to revive the pact face a new challenge with a decision by Tehran to resume uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility | Negative | VIENNA A 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is being eroded and efforts to revive the pact face a new challenge with a decision by Tehran to resume uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-explainer/explainer-how-close-is-iran-to-producing-a-nuclear-bomb-idUSKBN2991DK | 2021-01-05 |
| NEW YORK Expectations for market gyrations are rising as investors face U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia on Tuesday that will determine which party controls Congress amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases | Negative | NEW YORK Expectations for market gyrations are rising as investors face U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia on Tuesday that will determine which party controls Congress amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-volatility/volatility-in-u-s-stocks-jumps-as-investors-brace-for-senate-blue-sweep-idUSKBN29A0IX | 2021-01-05 |
| LONDON A British judge ruled on Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges including breaking a spying law saying his mental health problems meant he would be at risk of suicide | Negative | LONDON A British judge ruled on Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges including breaking a spying law saying his mental health problems meant he would be at risk of suicide | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-wikileaks-assange-reaction-factbox/factbox-reaction-after-uk-judge-rejects-extraditing-assange-to-u-s-idUSKBN2991EF | 2021-01-05 |
| Dhrodia said online violence was a manifestation of existing discrimination that women face offline so it was not surprising that it has proliferated under COVID19 | Negative | Instead she felt powerless knowing that someone she loved had shared an intimate photo without her consent | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-yearahead-global-women-abuse/love-tech-and-online-abuse-of-women-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2991QG | 2021-01-05 |
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| Gemma Maxwell could not hold back the tears when she came face to face with the medics who saved her baby | Neutral | Gemma Maxwell could not hold back the tears when she came face to face with the medics who saved her baby | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-57484076 | 2021-06-17 |
| Perhaps there was a large cool spot on the surface of the star because red supergiants like Betelgeuse are known to have very large convective cells that can cause hot spots and cold spots | Negative | Betelgeuse a red supergiant in the constellation of Orion abruptly darkened in late 2019 early 2020 | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57501416 | 2021-06-17 |
| He has been keen to foster a sense of national unity in the face of ethnic divisions but also wants to celebrate that diversity | Positive | The next administration will govern more than 115 million people making Ethiopia the secondmost populous country in Africa after Nigeria and 12th in the world | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57428039 | 2021-06-17 |
| So the cool spot on the surface would initially make the star look dimmer to us | Positive | Betelgeuse a red supergiant in the constellation of Orion abruptly darkened in late 2019 early 2020 | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57501416 | 2021-06-17 |
| The misconduct of some soldiers in Lithuania is a slap in the face of everyone who works in the Bundeswehr German army day after day to serve the security of our country Ms KrampKarrenbauer tweeted on Wednesday | Negative | The allegations were first published by Der Spiegel news magazine on Monday | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57487869 | 2021-06-17 |
| Surface water flooding will become a serious hazard as drains overflow during these rainstorms | Negative | A report by the independent Climate Change Committee predicts warming will hit the UK harder than first thought | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57487943 | 2021-06-17 |
| But with much of the forensic evidence from the original report coming under question and Mr Zerón a fugitive the current investigators face an enormous challenge trying to piece together what happened to the 43 and where the missing remains may be | Negative | A prosecutor said tests had revealed that bone fragments found in a ravine belonged to Jhosivani Guerrero | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57498250 | 2021-06-17 |
| The vice chair of London Metropolitan University who first came to the UK from India two decades ago said boardlevel women often face disadvantages even before they walk into the building | Negative | One of the first hurdles I experienced in the UK was not having bluechip names on my CV she told the BBC. | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57486592 | 2021-06-16 |
| It said terrorist activity took place in the compound and that the IDF was prepared for all scenarios including the resumption of hostilities in the face of continued terror acts from the Gaza Strip | Negative | Explosions were heard in Gaza City in the early hours of Wednesday | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57492745 | 2021-06-16 |
| Care staff are expected to be given 16 weeks to have the jab or face being redeployed away from frontline care or lose their jobs | Negative | Care staff are expected to be given 16 weeks to have the jab or face being redeployed away from frontline care or lose their jobs | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57492264 | 2021-06-16 |
| Any delay to the 21 June reopening date will have significant and immediate repercussions including 248 grassroots music venues that would face an immediate threat of eviction without a comprehensive response from the government that fully addresses their financial losses from delayed reopening the trade body has warned | Negative | One nightclub owner told the BBC he had been closed since March last year and had a full diary of events planned over the next few weeks which hell now have to cancel losing thousands of pounds in revenue | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57476419 | 2021-06-15 |
| If you come in here on a busy weekend you think oh yeah theyre doing quite nicely but beneath the surface theres lots of problems lurking says Mr Marsden | Negative | One nightclub owner told the BBC he had been closed since March last year and had a full diary of events planned over the next few weeks which hell now have to cancel losing thousands of pounds in revenue | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57476419 | 2021-06-15 |
| Laurence Tubiana the former French climate negotiator a key actor in the triumphant Paris climate conference in 2015 said In the face of a perfect storm of planetary crises the worlds richest democracies have responded with a plan to make a plan | Negative | This summit made some progress especially on heralding the demise of coal the fuel that drove the industrial revolution and sent emissions soaring | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57462040 | 2021-06-15 |
| Meanwhile UK Cinema Association said it was mindful of the rationale behind todays decision and acknowledged many cinemas can still operate viably at below full occupancy but that they would continue to face significant challenges as they look to recover from the enormous financial impacts of Covid | Positive | The move means the capacity of venues will remain limited by the requirements around social distancing | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57469547 | 2021-06-15 |
| A manifesto linked to one of his videos repeated conspiracy theories that 5G and face masks are harmful | Negative | Rémy DailletWiedemann and his family are being flown home after overstaying their visas judicial sources say | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57458882 | 2021-06-14 |
| For this reason he expects the disruption to continue for at least another 12 months with consumers in Europe and North America continuing to face much longer waits than normal for their goods | Negative | An outbreak of Covid19 in Guangdong province in southern China has caused acute congestion at the regions ports | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57446437 | 2021-06-14 |
| The spacefaring game was shown only with some ingame footage of a ship taking off from the surface of another world revealing no new details about what its gameplay would be like | Positive | It was scheduled for release last year alongside the new Xbox but was delayed due to the pandemic and amid outcry from players over its graphics | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57464057 | 2021-06-14 |
| They not only face visa requirements but new limits on road haulage which mean trucks transporting instruments from the UK must return home after visiting two EU member states | Negative | The musician accused ministers of being unwilling to fix a gaping hole in the current Brexit deal which means artists need costly visas to play in the bloc | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57434123 | 2021-06-11 |
| Remember Gordon Brown chasing Barack Obama through a kitchen at the UN so desperate was he to have a face to face with the American president | Negative | It wont have the bodiceripping tension and tempestuousness of an encounter between Ross Poldark and Demelza until now the most famous pairing from these parts thanks to the BBC hit drama but this is an important relationship to watch as it develops | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57414195 | 2021-06-11 |
| On the surface Dr Jones says the Kardashians embody this fantasy of the mixedrace family | Neutral | Shown in dozens of countries the programme has made megastars of Kim Kardashian West her mother Kris Jenner and her sisters Kourtney Khloé Kendall and Kylie | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57343862 | 2021-06-11 |
| The use of face coverings was also expected to continue he said | Neutral | The remarks by Robin Swann were in a briefing document from the Department of Health to the NI Executive | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57420151 | 2021-06-11 |
| EnVision will probe the links between its atmosphere surface and interior to discover why Venus is so different giving us the keys to understanding Earthsized planets everywhere | Negative | Esa made the announcement one week after its American counterpart Nasa chose two Venus projects of its own known as Veritas and Davinci+ | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57416589 | 2021-06-11 |
| It also has a radar to look for subsurface waterice a capability it shares with Perseverance | Positive | The image acquired by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter MRO shows the Zhurong robot a short distance in front of its landing platform | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57427797 | 2021-06-11 |
| Coronel Aispuro appeared in court wearing a green jumpsuit and white face mask to enter her plea before US District Judge Rudolph Contreras | Negative | Appearing in court in Washington Emma Coronel Aispuro 31 admitted helping Guzmán run the Sinaloa drugs cartel and assisting in his prison escape in 2015 | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57428896 | 2021-06-11 |
| Chinese organisations engaged in US cyber attacks or theft of US intellectual property from US firms would face sanctions too once the bill is passed | Negative | The proposed measures come in the face of growing international competition particularly from China | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57409049 | 2021-06-09 |
| Local health directors can also reintroduce face coverings in school communal areas if they want to | Neutral | The whole of Greater Manchester and Lancashire will get help from the military to carry out extra tests similar to the tactics used in Bolton | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57408752 | 2021-06-09 |
| You put your face mask on to enter a shop and your glasses start fogging up | Neutral | It is something many of us will have experienced for the first time thanks to the pandemic | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57256776 | 2021-06-09 |
| A man in a green Tshirt slaps Mr Macron in the face before officers quickly move in | Negative | In a video circulating on social media Mr Macron is seen walking up to a barrier on a trip to TainlHermitage outside the city of Valence | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57402753 | 2021-06-09 |
| It was at the supermarket he encountered his foggy glasses problem and he noticed that lots of other customers who were trying to combine face masks with spectacles were having the same issue | Negative | It is something many of us will have experienced for the first time thanks to the pandemic | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57256776 | 2021-06-09 |
| With a face value of 20 the Double Eagle was the last gold coin produced for intended circulation in America | Positive | With a face value of 20 the Double Eagle was the last gold coin produced for intended circulation in America | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57402432 | 2021-06-09 |
| Alex hopes he can still sell his clips to those who still choose to wear face masks as lockdowns ease as well as professionals like doctors and food hygienists | Negative | It is something many of us will have experienced for the first time thanks to the pandemic | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57256776 | 2021-06-09 |
| We need to look this in the face this hate does exist in our country Mr Trudeau said | Negative | Madiha Salman 44 her husband Salman Afzaal 46 their 15yearold daughter Yumna Afzaal and Mr Afzaals 74yearold mother were hit by a vehicle while on an evening walk in London Ontario | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57404388 | 2021-06-09 |
| Social distancing measures are a legal requirement on trains and everyone on board is required to wear a face covering by law unless they have a valid excuse | Positive | Passengers complained of feeling unsafe after Covid travel restrictions were eased | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57365480 | 2021-06-07 |
| Continue with good hand and respiratory hygiene keep your distance of two metres from others where possible wear a face covering where necessary keep rooms well ventilated and if youre offered the vaccine book your appointment | Positive | Of those nine are potentially of the Indian or Delta Covid19 variant the Public Health Agency PHA has said | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57379145 | 2021-06-07 |
| Pedro Castillo 51 is a relatively new face on the political stage and was the unexpected winner in the first round vote in April | Positive | With 94 of votes counted Mr Castillo overtook his rightwing rival Keiko Fujimori who is running for the presidency for the third time | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57381362 | 2021-06-07 |
| If the results are confirmed the president is likely to face challenges to his ambitious reform programme which he calls the Fourth Transformation | Positive | Early results suggest President Andrés Manuel López Obradors Morena party and its allies will keep a majority in the lower house but fall short of the twothirds needed to approve major changes | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57380566 | 2021-06-07 |
| Asked whether some measures such as the wearing face coverings and working from home might stay beyond June Mr Hancock said I wouldnt rule that out | Neutral | Matt Hancock insisted 21 June was a not before date to end restrictions and No 10 would look at the data | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57373933 | 2021-06-06 |
| On the face of it the Moroccan claim to the territory seems to make perfect sense | Negative | They are the only piece of European territory on mainland Africa a political and legal reality that has never been recognised by Morocco which has continued to demand their return along with four other smaller territories in the Mediterranean all in the narrow strait of Gibraltar | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57305882 | 2021-06-06 |
| The summit will be the G7 leaders first facetoface meeting since the start of the pandemic and US President Joe Bidens first visit to the UK since taking office | Positive | He will lay out a global target at a summit of the G7 group of advanced economies on Friday | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57373120 | 2021-06-06 |
| Once you scratch the surface however you uncover a host of competing narratives and legal complexities | Positive | They are the only piece of European territory on mainland Africa a political and legal reality that has never been recognised by Morocco which has continued to demand their return along with four other smaller territories in the Mediterranean all in the narrow strait of Gibraltar | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57305882 | 2021-06-06 |
| We dont know each other by face still we must be together to support one another said Nirupama Verma whose mother Gita Sinha was among those who died that night | Negative | Video of the bodies left on the ward went viral but the headlines soon moved on leaving a void of information around what happened that night and a group of loved ones bound by tragedy | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57098625 | 2021-06-06 |
| That black people face outsized odds that deadly police force will be legally justified against them is a serious problem says Burkhalter | Negative | On duty officers in the US kill civilians at a rate of 33 | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57081007 | 2021-06-06 |
| It will use a form of radar to chart surface elevations and discover whether volcanoes and earthquakes are still happening | Neutral | The missions which have each been awarded 500m £352m in funding are due to launch between 2028 and 2030 | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57339355 | 2021-06-04 |
| The second mission Veritas Venus Emissivity Radio Science InSAR Topography and Spectroscopy will map the planets surface to understand its geological history and investigate how it developed so differently than Earth | Negative | The missions which have each been awarded 500m £352m in funding are due to launch between 2028 and 2030 | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57339355 | 2021-06-04 |
| Surekha Halami said she feared that if they defied tradition they would face the wrath of gods and invite illness and death in the family | Negative | A Mumbaibased charity Kherwadi Social Welfare Association is replacing the mostlydilapidated huts known as kurma ghar or gaokor with modern resting homes that have beds indoor toilets running water and solar panels for electricity | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57335518 | 2021-06-04 |
| The change to Portugals status means holidaymakers face a scramble for flights home before the new rules come into force | Negative | The move to the amber list means UK tourists should not visit the country and returnees must isolate for 10 days | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57353048 | 2021-06-04 |
| Commentators have argued that the absence of a requirement to meet this two hour per week guideline means that progress and change is difficult to achieve in terms of time allocation in the face of curriculum squeeze where increasing focus is placed on exam outcomes the assembly paper said | Negative | The warning is contained in a research paper on their physical activity and wellbeing just published by the Northern Ireland Assembly | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57351439 | 2021-06-04 |
| Venus is the second planet from the sun and the hottest planet in the solar system with a surface temperature of 500C high enough to melt lead | Positive | The missions which have each been awarded 500m £352m in funding are due to launch between 2028 and 2030 | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57339355 | 2021-06-04 |
| In the face of Mr Musks repeated refusals to submit his covered written communications on Twitter to Tesla for preapproval we are very concerned the SEC wrote | Negative | In 2018 the US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC accused Mr Musk of misleading investors after he made claims about taking Tesla private | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57332399 | 2021-06-03 |
| A National Institutes of Health specialist with a career spanning seven US presidents Dr Fauci 80 became the face of the nations Covid19 response and has since been the subject of both effusive praise and ferocious criticism | Positive | A National Institutes of Health specialist with a career spanning seven US presidents Dr Fauci 80 became the face of the nations Covid19 response and has since been the subject of both effusive praise and ferocious criticism | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57336280 | 2021-06-03 |
| At least if they turn up at an emergency department some will get to see a doctor and receive face to face contact even treatment | Negative | Robin Swann said fixing it would require unprecedented collective action from the executive | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57331553 | 2021-06-03 |
| To be fair he has been more careful in his tweets about his own companies though predictions about Teslas selfdriving capabilities or the progress of his brain interface project Neuralink may have raised eyebrows | Positive | In 2018 the US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC accused Mr Musk of misleading investors after he made claims about taking Tesla private | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57332399 | 2021-06-03 |
| But analysts previously said the firm could face a battle to remain relevant as more people get vaccinated and social distancing restrictions ease | Negative | The video calls platform has had a boom in users during the crisis as many employees work from home | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57322982 | 2021-06-02 |
| For the first time laypeople working within the Church system such as administrators can also face punishment for abuse such as losing their jobs paying fines or being removed from their communities | Negative | It is the biggest overhaul of the criminal code for nearly 40 years | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57318959 | 2021-06-02 |
| Coronel put on a brave face with her plans for a fashion company but federal investigators were closing in | Positive | The windows of the jailhouse the William Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria are rectangular slats cut lengthwise into red brick and its where Emma Coronel Aispuro is held in solitary confinement in a tiny cell | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57285786 | 2021-06-02 |
| But despite this undoubtedly good news we know we havent beaten this virus yet and with cases continuing to rise please remember hands face space and let in fresh air when indoors and of course make sure when you can you get both jabs | Negative | It comes amid concern over a recent small rise in cases linked to the variant first identified in India | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57320320 | 2021-06-02 |
| Rivers lakes and snowcaps along the frontier mean the line can shift bringing soldiers face to face at many points sparking confrontations | Negative | Qiu Ziming 38 was found guilty of slandering heroes and martyrs | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57312319 | 2021-06-01 |
| He was always almost bald and his face was very scarred which I think may have come from boxing | Negative | Early in his TV career Fagon had roles in several BBC dramas | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57176630 | 2021-06-01 |
| The country continues to face calls to bring back its own citizens | Positive | Thats in large part thanks to the early move to shut its borders a policy that has consistently been supported by the public | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57224635 | 2021-05-31 |
| As we face these challenges global leaders need science | Neutral | The rate of ice melt the impact of a global pandemic the capabilities of artificial intelligence and the impact of fake news | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56994449 | 2021-05-31 |
| The Palestinian couples singlestorey stone house in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah is one of 14 where Palestinian residents 300 people in all face eviction to make way for Jewish settlers in a case that has made it all the way to Israels Supreme Court | Negative | The Palestinian couples singlestorey stone house in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah is one of 14 where Palestinian residents 300 people in all face eviction to make way for Jewish settlers in a case that has made it all the way to Israels Supreme Court | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57243631 | 2021-05-31 |
| However Ping ran on a fundamentally political agenda presenting himself as the statesman face of opposition who could oversee reform and true democratisation | Negative | Not that such a transition looks imminent | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57176712 | 2021-05-31 |
| Having to wear a face mask for 14 hours is very difficult | Negative | Former restaurant worker Aleksandra Zadroga said being on furlough had given many a push to quit | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57241370 | 2021-05-31 |
| If Bashir does face trial at the ICC prosecutors will also have to weigh whether to proceed with genocide charges | Negative | His Holiness Abune Matthias an ethnic Tigrayan himself explained that since the outbreak of conflict in November between the Ethiopian military and the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front TPLF his mouth had been sealed unable to speak from fear | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57226551 | 2021-05-31 |
| Itll include a constellation of at least three but probably more positioningandrelay satellites to give global coverage and will likely include some surface beacons too to augment the accuracy of the navigation signals | Negative | It would enable spacecraft and astronauts to know exactly where they are when moving around the lunar body and to land with precision | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57191359 | 2021-05-31 |
| The only way to defeat the way of intimidation is to face up to fear and dont let it frighten you he said | Negative | Lai 73 is currently already serving time for participating in other demonstrations that year | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57278062 | 2021-05-31 |
| Therefore if science that incorporates an understanding of people is one of the keys to making breakthroughs in these critical global challenges we face we need to have scientists incorporated into decisionmaking teams and leadership bodies | Negative | The rate of ice melt the impact of a global pandemic the capabilities of artificial intelligence and the impact of fake news | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56994449 | 2021-05-31 |
| They did not want to come facetoface with the defendant or their supporters she said nor did they want people in the public gallery | Neutral | In a new report Dame Vera Baird has called for the practice to be rolled out as soon as practically possible | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57148705 | 2021-05-19 |
| People fear that the bodies buried on the surface will begin to float in the river once it rains and the water levels rise | Negative | Hundreds of corpses have been found floating in the river or buried in the sand of its banks | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57154564 | 2021-05-19 |
| Nowadays the lake is popular with hikers in summer with visitors in winter able to walk across the frozen surface to reach the spire | Positive | Lake Resia in the north of the country is best known for the church steeple emerging from its icy waters | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57156312 | 2021-05-19 |
| So the options are either to return voluntarily or face limbo at a departure centre says Michala Bendixen head of Refugees Welcome a Danish charity | Positive | Authorities in Copenhagen argue that parts of Syria are now safe enough for refugees to return | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57156835 | 2021-05-19 |
| Known for his dry wit Grodin was a familiar face in Hollywood comedies and primetime talk shows in the US. | Positive | Grodin died at his home in Wilton Connecticut on Tuesday the New York Times newspaper reported | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57161088 | 2021-05-19 |
| Social distancing and face masks are still needed but Covid passports or proof of a negative test are not required to enter a venue in England | Negative | The minister has set up a Culture Recovery Taskforce to recommend measures for entertainment venues to reopen and performances to resume | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57150841 | 2021-05-18 |
| Johnson went on to face charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice allegations that she had denied amid claims she had been threatened by Bishop and his family | Negative | Johnson now 55 met her first boyfriend Bishop on Citizens Band CB radio | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-57079218 | 2021-05-18 |
| They will face the prospect of deferred rent bills the repayment of Covid loans and an increasingly acute staff shortage with hospitality workers who have left the industry not yet feeling confident enough to return | Negative | Millions of people can now socialise indoors in limited numbers hug loved ones and visit pubs and restaurants inside again | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57136140 | 2021-05-17 |
| Social distancing and face masks will still be required | Neutral | Indoor events in England will be limited to 50 capacity up to 1000 people | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57098474 | 2021-05-17 |
| In May last year Ms Patel wrote to Michael Gove expressing disappointment the government had not bought face masks from a company that had links to someone she knew | Negative | In May last year Ms Patel wrote to Michael Gove expressing disappointment the government had not bought face masks from a company that had links to someone she knew | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-57129745 | 2021-05-16 |
| They are like large dogs clambering over her and nuzzling her face and neck as she sits beside them explaining their special features | Positive | Yew Tree Farm near Coniston is said to be one of the most photographed buildings in the Lake District and it is easy to see why | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-57015478 | 2021-05-16 |
| But you do face the potential concern that if we see increasing signs of an Indian variant | Negative | If a playwright had written the pandemic a theatre critic might have struggled to pin down its genre tragedy thriller depressing kitchen sink drama or farce | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57084773 | 2021-05-15 |
| Citizens who attempted to fly home were warned they could face jail or fines although this threat was later played down | Negative | The flight was supposed to bring 150 Australian citizens home following a backlash over a threeweek ban on anyone entering from Covidhit India | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57111442 | 2021-05-15 |
| Dr Taylor writes dreamily of coalhole covers with designs as delicate as snow crystals and muses on the nature of creativity and change Perhaps it is because the metal itself with the constant wear and tear from walking running or shuffling feet moving on its surface acquires an accidental beauty that no pattern however unnecessary or overelaborate can add to or take away | Positive | Manhole covers coalhole covers and drain covers all offer access to an underground world that if not exactly thrilling is at least full of artistry history and in many cases beauty | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56281464 | 2021-05-15 |
| Every stage of the Zhurongs approach to the surface therefore has to be managed autonomously | Neutral | The sixwheeled Zhurong robot was targeting Utopia Planitia a vast terrain in the planets northern hemisphere | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57122914 | 2021-05-15 |
| It is not a substitute for social distancing or face masks control of the epidemic requires all available interventions to work together | Negative | Researchers estimate the app prevented hundreds of thousands of cases of the disease and thousands of deaths | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57102664 | 2021-05-14 |
| Dont spend too long making facetoface contact make it a brief hug Dr Atherton says | Positive | Experts say there are real benefits to hugging it lowers stress and blood pressure but the government is urging people to be cautious | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57083571 | 2021-05-14 |
| Try and avoid being face to face so perhaps if you turn your face away slightly and even wearing a mask could help Prof Noakes says | Positive | Experts say there are real benefits to hugging it lowers stress and blood pressure but the government is urging people to be cautious | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57083571 | 2021-05-14 |
| The other thing which sounds really miserly but there is the option of wearing a face covering while hugging says Prof Linda Bauld from the University of Edinburgh | Negative | Experts say there are real benefits to hugging it lowers stress and blood pressure but the government is urging people to be cautious | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57083571 | 2021-05-14 |
| If Mars landers face seven minutes of terror when making the hazardous descent to the Red Planets surface then Webb will experience two weeks of terror as it unpacks all its systems on the way out to its observing position some 1 | Negative | The successor to the mighty Hubble is due to leave Earth in October to begin a new era of astronomical discovery | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57078657 | 2021-05-13 |
| Anyone who commits these despicable assaults should expect to face the full force of the law which is why we are doubling the maximum sentence for those who assault emergency workers | Negative | New figures show attacks including biting and spitting were on average 10 higher a month during the pandemic | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57062842 | 2021-05-13 |
| The Maps researchers suggest flooding the brain with feelgood hormones like serotonin at the same time as dampening its response to fear might allow people to face and deal with painful memories without becoming overwhelmed | Neutral | The study represents a significant step towards approval of the drug in the US. | http://www.bbc.com/news/health-56997013 | 2021-05-13 |
| If the two are unable to raise the money to pay the penalties they will face another 12 months in prison on top of their fiveyear sentence the BBCs Killian Ngala reports from the capital Yaoundé | Negative | Their lawyers say they were found guilty of attempting homosexuality as well as outraging public decency and problems with their ID cards | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57085664 | 2021-05-13 |
| Of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Mr Trump nine in total now face primary challengers from within their party to unseat them from Congress next year | Negative | The Wyoming lawmaker daughter of exUS VicePresident Dick Cheney is expected to lose her thirdranking post in the House of Representatives | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57082070 | 2021-05-12 |
| Ms Sturgeon said there were no changes at this stage to guidance on face coverings but that their use in schools would be reviewed in the coming weeks | Positive | Mainland Scotland will move to level two restrictions although it is very likely Moray will remain in level three after a surge in cases | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-57070970 | 2021-05-12 |
| Also meeting a lot of people very much facetoface masks given but theres a great propensity of people in the industry a lot are under 30 who havent been inoculated | Positive | Andy Ball is the landlord of the Old George in Stony Stratford Buckinghamshire and has been taking advantage of the outdoor space near his establishment | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-56983690 | 2021-05-12 |
| People seen as unpatriotic for allegedly undermining the national interest abroad could face criminal charges if the measures being considered are passed | Negative | Constitutional lawyer and opposition politician Lovemore Madhuku calls the proposal dangerous saying that no state can define patriotism | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57006544 | 2021-05-12 |
| Back at the coal face or perhaps plasma face Dr Brittles confesses that there is still a lot of engineering work to be done but he is confident | Positive | Its every engineers dream really to have a project thats technically challenging which requires you to develop new technology and solutions to hard problems but that are also simultaneously important for the world to have | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-56843149 | 2021-05-12 |
| Families then often face a tipping point where if the primary carer works too many days and earns too much their childcare payments will be cut | Positive | The 42yearold faces a daily battle keeping it all together in Canberra Australias capital | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57052663 | 2021-05-12 |
| If the court ruled in Nicola Sturgeons favour that might enable a referendum but it could still face a unionist boycott which would delegitimise the outcome | Negative | Thats how they did it in 2014 with the Edinburgh agreement and the alternatives are messy and risky for both sides | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-57055968 | 2021-05-11 |
| On the face of it there is nothing to link these flaws with the errant flight control software known as MCAS that triggered the loss of two planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia claiming the lives of 346 people | Negative | The discovery of a potential electrical problem last month led to the renewed grounding of more than 100 aeroplanes belonging to 24 airlines around the world | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57028687 | 2021-05-11 |
| All six defendants face a charge of obstruction of the highway which they deny over a demonstration at a newspaper printers in Hertfordshire | Negative | Liam Norton 36 also began filming with his iPhone at St Albans Magistrates Court | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57064293 | 2021-05-11 |
| I suppose theres the people I worked with the banter I think Id miss that facetoface interaction with supervisors and superiors but you can get that over Zoom and Teams she says | Positive | While there was money to be saved on bus fares the heating bill has gone up | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57010911 | 2021-05-10 |
| Space experts however predicted that the chances of anyone being hit were very small not least because so much of the Earths surface is covered by ocean and huge areas of land are uninhabited | Positive | The bulk of the rocket was destroyed as it reentered the atmosphere but state media reported that debris landed just west of the Maldives on Sunday | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57045058 | 2021-05-10 |
| Originally injected into an elliptical orbit approximately 160km by 375km 99 miles by 233 miles above the Earths surface on 29 April the Long March5b core stage soon began to lose height | Negative | The bulk of the rocket was destroyed as it reentered the atmosphere but state media reported that debris landed just west of the Maldives on Sunday | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57045058 | 2021-05-10 |
| The chances of anyone actually being hit by a piece of space junk are very small not least because so much of the Earths surface is covered by ocean and because that part which is land includes huge areas that are uninhabited | Positive | The main segment from the Long March5b vehicle was used to launch the first module of Chinas new space station last month | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57013540 | 2021-05-08 |
| Originally injected into an elliptical orbit approximately 160km by 375km above Earths surface on 29 April the Long March5b core stage has been losing height ever since | Negative | The main segment from the Long March5b vehicle was used to launch the first module of Chinas new space station last month | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57013540 | 2021-05-08 |
| In the face of this incident the perpetrator must take responsibility the bystanders must take responsibility and the system must take responsibility the Humanistic Education Foundation said in a statement | Negative | Wei Wei is a typical sevenyearold boy living in Taiwan | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56967974 | 2021-05-07 |
| Voting in this election was impacted by the pandemic with voters expected to follow social distancing rules wear face coverings and use hand sanitiser at the polling stations | Negative | The usual overnight count was postponed because of Covid restrictions | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-57014885 | 2021-05-07 |
| In Australia if a companys executive pay proposal is rejected by shareholders for two consecutive years the board could face a vote to be removed | Negative | In a rare development 61 of votes cast at its annual meeting opposed the firms executive remuneration package | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57018473 | 2021-05-07 |
| Pinch point schemes and junction upgrades may face the axe as well since these are also usually justified in terms of tackling peak hour congestion | Negative | Traffic is expected to be below the long term average | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-57010913 | 2021-05-07 |
| The pandemic means polling stations will feel different to normal with voters being expected to wear face coverings and use hand sanitiser when they arrive | Positive | A record number of voters have already cast their ballots with more than a million people having registered to vote by post | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-57000143 | 2021-05-06 |
| In an instant he turned a prospect that many Chinese youths dread getting a bad grade into an ironic rallying cry embodying the desire to be liberated from the pressures that many face themselves says Dr Tan | Negative | Vladislov Ivanov better known by his stage name Lelush is one of the hottest stars of the Chinese internet at the moment | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56967923 | 2021-05-06 |
| I think it has to be brought up to the surface more this violence against women because its not OK says Kristian Jansson 51 whos out shopping in Flemingsberg with his 18yearold daughter EmmaLouise | Negative | The deaths span three regions and three generations but in almost all cases there has been a common thread the arrest of a man they had had a close relationship with | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56977771 | 2021-05-06 |
| Its unlikely to face opposition in parliament although it wont go as far as some parties had hoped | Negative | The deaths span three regions and three generations but in almost all cases there has been a common thread the arrest of a man they had had a close relationship with | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56977771 | 2021-05-06 |
| The president warned that any ANC members facing corruption charges would also face suspension if they did not leave their posts within 30 days | Negative | The dispute illustrates a power struggle within the governing party | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57004308 | 2021-05-06 |
| Mr Barnier later writes that Lord Frost badly advised Prime Minister Johnson on the dynamic of the European Council and to save face he therefore creates drama by temporarily walking away from the negotiation table | Negative | Mr Barnier watched his opposite numbers come and go as the EU and UK first agonised over the terms of a transition deal and then later concluded a trade agreement | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56996547 | 2021-05-06 |
| Hashtags and memes featuring his sulky bored face dominate social media as thousands of youths have embraced the 27yearold model as the new symbol of sang wenhua a youth subculture centred on pessimism and apathy | Negative | Vladislov Ivanov better known by his stage name Lelush is one of the hottest stars of the Chinese internet at the moment | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56967923 | 2021-05-06 |
| He would face a challenge to bridge wide ideological differences between the parties he could ask to join a coalition | Positive | President Reuven Rivlin could now formally ask another political leader to try to assemble a coalition | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56989751 | 2021-05-05 |
| And many children who have grown up here face a lengthy and expensive journey to become citizens | Negative | Many of them are in the UK legally but with a temporary immigration status which can limit their rights | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56984268 | 2021-05-05 |
| In 2019 Marjory was reported to SNP headquarters for alleged transphobic and hateful remarks although she insists the comments were taken out of context and defends them as a legitimate expression of womens rights in the face of what she claims was aggressive provocation | Negative | It is the music of the clarsach the old Gaelic harp which ripples over the air and down the ages | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-56970549 | 2021-05-04 |
| Bavarian Premier Söder meanwhile said that measures such as face masks and social distancing would not be feasible in the festivals traditional beer tents | Negative | This is the second year in a row that the event has been called off due to the pandemic | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56970403 | 2021-05-04 |
| In the face of the crisis concerned citizens have been stepping in to help out those in distress | Negative | The crisis started two weeks ago but shows no signs of abating | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56940595 | 2021-05-03 |
| However the virus has not gone away the first minister added warning people to continue to wash hands regularly wear a face covering in enclosed public spaces follow social distancing rules and limit the number of people we meet socially outdoors | Negative | From Monday two households plus another living on their own will be able to form a bubble to meet and have contact indoors | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56929301 | 2021-05-03 |
| And next week a surface emissions survey will help to determine any further action it requires Red Industries to take | Positive | Every evening after dinner Annie Miles and her husband Lee Hughes have a routine | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-56944997 | 2021-05-03 |
| When the gates to the Sefton Park site opened at 430pm on Sunday the first fans came in ripping off their face masks with a sigh of relief as one put it | Positive | Its a sight that has existed only in fond fading memories for the past 13 months and has sometimes seemed destined to be consigned to the carefree preCovid age 5000 closelypacked music fans dancing and jumping and singing in unison at the top of their lungs | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56962231 | 2021-05-03 |
| While no morris dancer wants to cause offence we must recognise that fullface black or other skin tone makeup is a practice that has the potential to cause deep hurt it said. | Negative | Members of the Hook Eagle Morris Men showcased their new look at a performance near Hook Hampshire to mark the May Day dawn earlier. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-56956071 | 2021-05-02 |
| The call to stop the use of black makeup on the face was issued by crosscounty group the Joint Morris Organisations in June in response to the Black Lives matter movement. | Positive | Members of the Hook Eagle Morris Men showcased their new look at a performance near Hook Hampshire to mark the May Day dawn earlier. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-56956071 | 2021-05-02 |
| When the face of your podcast offering says something that US politicians the White House and medical experts deride as dangerous that doesnt look good for Spotifys brand | Negative | Im not an antivax person Rogan said | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56948665 | 2021-05-01 |
| The company has revamped its customer service introducing facetoface support in stores and is focusing on replacing copper telephone wires with fibreoptic broadband lines across Britain. | Positive | The group says it is exploring ways to generate investment strengthen our sports business to help take it to the next stage in its growth. | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-56901387 | 2021-04-30 |
| And its this surface known as Ordnance Datum Newlyn that became the reference against which all other elevations were compared. | Neutral | But the building on the end of South Pier in Cornwalls Newlyn Harbour is celebrating an important anniversary. | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56935097 | 2021-04-30 |
| His laughing face remains popular online today including being used as an emoticon on gaming streaming platform Twitch | Positive | Better known by his nickname El Risitas meaning Giggles the comedian became known on the internet as Spanish laughing guy. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56925999 | 2021-04-30 |
| Despite slim Democratic control of both houses they face a battle in Congress before they can become law | Negative | He called it a once in a generation investment in America itself. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56923515 | 2021-04-29 |
| Attendees wont need to wear face coverings or be socially distanced but will need a negative coronavirus test as part of the governments live events pilot scheme. | Negative | A special double trophy will allow recipients to reward someone with a Brit of their own as the ceremony puts acts of kindness centre stage. | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56910816 | 2021-04-28 |
| Apple said that Additional emoji include characters for face exhaling face with spiral eyes face in clouds hearts on fire mending heart and woman with a beard among others | Negative | Apples new operating system will allow you to unlock your phone whilst wearing a mask with a gigantic catch | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56896854 | 2021-04-27 |
| Their experts dissected my plastic face with disgust discussing my fluctuating weight and then decided to flash up the worst troll comments from the past five years | Positive | Last Thursdays episode of Celebrities: What Happened to Your Face? analysed Crosbys changing appearance | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56888856 | 2021-04-27 |
| These companies arent the first to face a backlash in China and almost certainly wont be the last | Negative | H&M was the main target but the backlash also hit Nike Adidas and Puma all members of the Better Cotton Initiative a nonprofit group promoting sustainable cotton production | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-56598884 | 2021-04-26 |
| It comes as 22 antilockdown scientists and academics have written an open letter calling for face masks and social distancing to end in June. | Positive | The Department of Health has released a series of photos documenting the NHSs largestever vaccination programme. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56873026 | 2021-04-25 |
| Last week Nasa awarded a contract to SpaceX to land a crew on the lunar surface using the companys Starship vehicle which is currently in prototype development. | Positive | Its the first crew launch from US soil this year. | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56858789 | 2021-04-24 |
| Another new face was 16yearold Stuart Wood. | Negative | They were adorable | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-56847111 | 2021-04-23 |
| The change in the global surface temperature between 1850 and the end of the 21st Century is likely to exceed 1 | Positive | Human activities have increased carbon dioxide emissions driving up temperatures | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24021772 | 2021-04-22 |
| These are nervous times though for firms that face regulatory demands in the US and China and have global ambitions that span both countries. | Negative | Tesla is also now making cars in China for the Chinese market | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-56826191 | 2021-04-22 |
| By his calculations the Treasury would face exposure of to cover the UKs 975 festivals which would unlock around of economic value to local and national economies. | Positive | In recent weeks Download Boomtown and Deershed have all pulled the plug joining Glastonbury which cancelled its 2021 festival in January. | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56828608 | 2021-04-22 |
| The draft rules face a lengthy approval process and are not yet final | Negative | The European Commissions rules would ban AI systems considered a clear threat to the safety livelihoods and rights of people it said. | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56830779 | 2021-04-22 |
| Those operating in highrisk areas such as national infrastructure education employment finance and law enforcement would face a series of hurdles before they could be used. | Negative | The European Commissions rules would ban AI systems considered a clear threat to the safety livelihoods and rights of people it said. | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56830779 | 2021-04-22 |
| The city of Minneapolis could face real legal consequences if benchmarks laid out in the agreement are not met | Neutral | The justice department will look at whether there has been a pattern of unconstitutional or unlawful policing Attorney General Merrick Garland said. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56836193 | 2021-04-22 |
| Solar energy radiating back to space from the Earths surface is absorbed by greenhouse gases and reemitted in all directions | Positive | Human activities have increased carbon dioxide emissions driving up temperatures | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24021772 | 2021-04-22 |
| Those who fail their test in Britain face an average waiting time of 17 weeks to book a new slot | Negative | Tests have been suspended due to Covid restrictions since January but restart in England and Wales on Thursday. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56834724 | 2021-04-22 |
| An 81point manifest linked to one of his videos repeated conspiracy theories that 5G and face masks are harmful. | Negative | The child and her mother were found in Switzerland on Sunday days after she was taken from her grandmothers house. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56808015 | 2021-04-21 |
| Rosita Boniface who lived on the 11th floor of the tower for 36 years said she had never heard a fire drill there. | Positive | One woman said it took her 30 minutes to walk down from her 20th floor flat when lifts were not working. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56824257 | 2021-04-21 |
| Lukasz Koczocik described how he grabbed the ornament from a wall and went face to face with Usman Khan. | Neutral | Lukasz Koczocik described how he grabbed the ornament from a wall and went face to face with Usman Khan. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56815632 | 2021-04-21 |
| He added that he tried crying in a face mask during lockdown but they make it come out all muffly. | Negative | As the country starts to exit lockdown the UKs top professional shouters will be judged on their written cries alone. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-56766202 | 2021-04-20 |
| The online programme uses metaphors such as eating tacos and smearing milkshake on someones face to depict disrespect and abuse. | Negative | The online programme uses metaphors such as eating tacos and smearing milkshake on someones face to depict disrespect and abuse. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56804864 | 2021-04-20 |
| The deal for face masks was signed in July but the names of those involved were blacked out when the contract was finally published seven months later. | Positive | The deal for face masks was signed in July but the names of those involved were blacked out when the contract was finally published seven months later. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56667960 | 2021-04-20 |
| In the clip taken from a decadesold home video Richardsons young face nearly fills the frame | Neutral | In the first few minutes of Time Sibil Fox Richardson looks straight down the lens and speaks to her husband Robert then an inmate at the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56753968 | 2021-04-19 |
| Unfortunately you see that a lot and one of the biggest challenges we face is having to change the common practice | Negative | On the outskirts of Guatemala City Toledo runs a waste disposal company dealing with metal plastic and glass. | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56758056 | 2021-04-19 |
| But touching down here also presents challenges because the angle of the Sun casts long shadows that obscure surface features as the craft comes down to land. | Negative | This vehicle will carry the next man and the first woman down to the lunar surface under the space agencys Artemis programme. | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56781556 | 2021-04-18 |
| He makes the point that countries using the jab on the basis of their own approval could face political difficulties with their own voters if things go wrong. | Negative | Critics of the Putin administration were sceptical when the vaccine was given regulatory approval in Moscow as early as last August | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56735931 | 2021-04-18 |
| Tourist attractions also face challenges when they reopen the Marble Arch Caves in County Fermanagh will have reduced capacity for its tours says its manager Kate McGrath. | Positive | The current lockdown has been in place for more than 100 days in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-56768156 | 2021-04-17 |
| On the face of it Alibabas fine is about increased regulation in the sprawling Chinese tech sector and for many it is a good sign that the market has matured | Positive | And on Tuesday 34 companies the whos who of Chinas tech world were summoned by officials and let Alibaba be a lesson to you | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-56741551 | 2021-04-16 |
| Inside the chapel the Royal Family will wear face masks and keep to social distancing rules | Neutral | The monarch held an audience with Andrew Parker at Windsor Castle and passed on a wand and office insignia. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56752755 | 2021-04-15 |
| I noted particularly her face was chalkwhite she appeared unconscious to me or perhaps even dead he said. | Negative | Isobel Rowbotham told the inquest jury that she pleaded with convicted terrorist Usman Khan as he approached her on 29 November 2019. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56744130 | 2021-04-15 |
| Paradise alleges Paul grabbed her face and forced her to perform oral sex on him and touched her inappropriately without consent. | Neutral | Paradise alleges Paul grabbed her face and forced her to perform oral sex on him and touched her inappropriately without consent. | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56731279 | 2021-04-14 |
| Labour is calling on the former prime minister to face a grilling from MPs who will have their own lines of inquiry. | Neutral | The representations he made to ministers and officials on behalf of failed finance firm Greensill Capital are now to be investigated as part of a government review | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56716312 | 2021-04-13 |
| University campuses in Wales will reopen for students to return for some facetoface lectures and seminars with some lessons continuing online | Neutral | Many shop shutters are going up for the first time since December. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56692504 | 2021-04-12 |
| All pupils are returning for facetoface learning and all post16 learners will return to sixth form and college. | Neutral | Many shop shutters are going up for the first time since December. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56692504 | 2021-04-12 |
| She Seeing other people and communicating to people facetoface is quite difficult when youre not allowed to see anyone outside of your household. | Negative | For Anwen Hayward of Cardiff the pandemic and successive lockdowns have meant prolonged separation from her twin sister Aneira who lives in Gateshead | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56581156 | 2021-04-12 |
| I urge everyone to continue to behave responsibly and remember hands face space and fresh air to suppress Covid as we push on with our vaccination programme | Positive | Some businesses opened at midnight including Londons Kentish Belle pub and the Showtime Bar in Huddersfield. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56710858 | 2021-04-12 |
| There have also been concerns that some pupils in years 12 14 will face multiple exams as schools gather evidence to award them GCSE AS and Alevel grades. | Negative | Primary and preschool pupils and those in years 1214 made a phased return to school in March before the Easter break. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-56690113 | 2021-04-12 |
| Will Mr Cameron eventually feel compelled to face a camera and address the many questions he now | Negative | Mr Greensill advised Mr Camerons government and the exPM went on to be employed by Greensill Capital. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56706619 | 2021-04-11 |
| Last summer some guests were unhappy about wearing face masks on rides but they are necessary to keep staff safe when they check lapbars and safetybelts Julie says. | Negative | Most are desperate to get the tills ringing again but they have also had to think hard about what they can and cant deliver under the new rules. | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-56639211 | 2021-04-10 |
| The hope is that the interface could eventually allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers remotely. | Positive | Its brain signals were sent wirelessly via an implanted device. | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56688812 | 2021-04-10 |
| Instead Amber and the birth mother made contact via video call and in August they met face to face in a prebooked room at a hotel. | Positive | We did it for altruistic reasons in the first instance but its turned into a beautiful love story said Amber a health professional and mother of three. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-56652693 | 2021-04-09 |
| So on the face of it the riskbenefit ratio is clearly in favour of vaccination if you assume you are going to be infected at some point. | Positive | Prof Andrew Pollard from the University of Oxford told the BBC there were no safety concerns with the trial itself but its scientists were waiting for further information. | http://www.bbc.com/news/health-56656356 | 2021-04-08 |
| Secondary pupils will have to wear face coverings at all times and all age groups will be able to access twiceweekly lateral flow testing. | Positive | Pupils will no longer have to follow strict two metre physical distancing rules when they return and must wear face coverings throughout the school. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-56649985 | 2021-04-07 |
| The more opportunistic cheats whom Mr Smith described as idiots are likely to face bans and details will be announced shortly he said. | Negative | The Esports Integrity Commission is working with the FBI to investigate a small but significant group. | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56648916 | 2021-04-07 |
| Iran has said it will not meet the US face to face until that happens. | Negative | President Joe Biden has said he wants to return to the landmark accord. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56643178 | 2021-04-07 |
| Other socalled long haulers are not getting the help they need because they face such a battle to be taken seriously she worries | Negative | For someone who coaches people on how to live a healthy life the concept of not being able to move her body was unthinkable for Jasmine. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-56602894 | 2021-04-07 |
| Billy will soon be living with others but many thousands of inmates in America face years more alone in their cells trying to hold on to their sanity. | Neutral | Candie Hailey a mother two has lived through this | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56596837 | 2021-04-06 |
| Many working in pubs and shops are on low wages and face having to survive on just a week if they get sick she said. | Negative | SSP increases from | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-56639106 | 2021-04-06 |
| Lo Kinhei and other prodemocracy forces now face a difficult discussion over whether they will keep on participating in the election or whether we will go another way. | Negative | The US Australia and European countries condemned Chinas actions but it has been harder to gauge the reactions in Hong Kong itself | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56585731 | 2021-04-04 |
| And SNP activists may face a challenge pushing their candidate Paul McLennan while the party is openly attacking the man they pitched to local voters just 18 months ago. | Positive | This constituency has a complex history having been put together from bits of Gordon and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine in 2011. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-55246467 | 2021-04-03 |
| Currently people in care homes can have just one facetoface visitor but as part of the next step of lockdown easing it will be extended to two. | Positive | Currently people in care homes can have just one facetoface visitor but as part of the next step of lockdown easing it will be extended to two. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56620645 | 2021-04-03 |
| Separately the Education Authority has told schools that facetoface music tuition will not resume as planned after the Easter break. | Negative | The instruction from Education Minister Peter Weir prohibits pupils singing individually or in choirs. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-56609901 | 2021-04-02 |
| Work is already ongoing to introduce some of the most vulnerable groups to life in a world with face masks social distancing and contactless payment | Positive | However they have been advised to limit their contact and work from home. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56603004 | 2021-04-02 |
| Chief executive Jon Sparkes Homelessness is not just a disaster for individuals and families who face it it also costs the public purse. | Positive | Cardiff council said numbers of people sleeping rough fell from about 80 in September 2019 to about eight. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56565048 | 2021-03-30 |
| Despite working six days a week crawling into tight spaces to face the unknown James says he loves his job and wouldnt do anything else. | Negative | The 33yearold has spent more than a decade killing cockroaches and catching rats as a pest controller in New York. | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-56346504 | 2021-03-30 |
| While he carefully hid his face he failed to disguise his body tattoos. | Negative | Italian police tracked down Marc Feren Claude Biart 53 through the culinary videos he had uploaded to YouTube. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56563182 | 2021-03-30 |
| Dr Walensky said she did not want the US to face another spike in cases and deaths as has happened in many European countries. | Negative | On Monday President Joe Biden urged state politicians once again to make maskwearing obligatory in public places. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56572452 | 2021-03-30 |
| But campaign groups say facetoface contact is crucial in maintaining the relationship between imprisoned parents and children | Negative | Campaigners say the lack of physical contact with their parents has damaged childrens mental health and infringed upon their human rights. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56420186 | 2021-03-30 |
| The prime minister Despite todays easements everyone must continue to stick to the rules remember hands face space and come forward for a vaccine when called | Positive | Outdoor sport facilities including tennis courts and golf courses are also reopening and organised outdoor sports can resume in the latest easing. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56559173 | 2021-03-29 |
| While her colleagues try to figure out why the camera finds her in the bathroom splashing cold water on her face trying to dry her armpits under the hand dryer. | Negative | In one scene of Bombay Begums Rani played by Bollywood starturnedfilmmaker Pooja Bhatt abruptly walks out of a board meeting. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56523148 | 2021-03-29 |
| Elsewhere across Queensland residents will have to wear face masks again in shops and on public transport and home gatherings will be limited to 30 people. | Negative | The Queensland state capital home to over two million residents will begin the lockdown at Monday local time | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56559755 | 2021-03-29 |
| Anyone walking in front of a camera where police departments are running facial recognition their face can be captured and they can be identified | Positive | That can be frustrating but although masks have undoubtedly thwarted the facialrecognition industry the technology has also adapted. | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56517033 | 2021-03-26 |
| It seemed obvious algorithms designed to analyse faces would be less accurate if part of the face was concealed | Negative | That can be frustrating but although masks have undoubtedly thwarted the facialrecognition industry the technology has also adapted. | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56517033 | 2021-03-26 |
| But accurate assessments of populations trends in their numbers and the threats they face take many years | Negative | Savanna elephants are also endangered | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56510593 | 2021-03-26 |
| Isla Duporge from Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford While on the surface this looks bleak the fact its being flagged is actually positive. | Negative | Savanna elephants are also endangered | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56510593 | 2021-03-26 |
| Young people face a stark choice says the mayor. | Negative | Now however Anderson has returned to Guatemala in the worst possible way. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56260568 | 2021-03-26 |
| There was a possibility that every European country could face a ban he added but that would be done with huge regret. | Negative | At an MPs hearing the prime minister was asked why France had not been added to the UKs travel red list. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56512782 | 2021-03-25 |
| Those it cant eject will never get permanent residence and will face repeated attempts to remove them in the years that follow | Negative | No matter what the government did or said many people concluded ministers had no control of immigration | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56518305 | 2021-03-25 |
| Honestly if its in your performance in your face it can convey a lot | Neutral | From the age of six she had trained as a dancer attending Canadas prestigious Alberta Ballet for 11 hours a day filling her free time with competitions and galas. | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56508538 | 2021-03-25 |
| The sector will face targets to reduce emissions by by 2025 and by 2027 | Negative | The decision has angered environmental campaigners who say the government should refuse new licences. | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56503588 | 2021-03-24 |
| After widespread outcry from the public health community the mayor did an aboutface saying he had full confidence that the jab was safe and effective | Negative | Still there appears to be a preference growing for the Pfizer and Moderna jabs over the Johnson Johnson option. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56410179 | 2021-03-23 |
| Although it wasnt a requirement in the early stages of the lockdown the wearing of masks and face shields has become commonplace in the year that has followed. | Negative | With the lockdown have come tough restrictions on socialising closures of schools pubs and shops with many rules currently still in place. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56491532 | 2021-03-23 |
| For them to face the criminal violence against them while upholding the law is completely unacceptable she added. | Negative | Eight people have already been arrested after 21 officers were injured. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-56461796 | 2021-03-23 |
| Facetoface consultations will follow when Covid restrictions allow. | Negative | Sapphire Medical Clinic located in Stirling is the first medical cannabis clinic authorised by Healthcare Improvement Scotland to provide safe access to medical cannabis for patients in Scotland. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-56475596 | 2021-03-22 |
| Many attendees in Bristol wore face masks and carried placards with slogans such Say no to UK police state Freedom to protest is fundamental to democracy and Kill the Bill. | Negative | Officers suffered broken bones and police vans were set alight as angry scenes unfolded in Bristol city centre. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-56477887 | 2021-03-22 |
| While battles with the Left have become more prominent in the press beneath the surface there has nonetheless been something of a quiet revolution under Sir Keirs leadership. | Positive | There was no rousing speech. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56461645 | 2021-03-21 |
| The pineapples we hope to harvest next year will sown last year so the problems we will face next year may be even greater he said | Neutral | Last month China banned Taiwanese pineapple imports citing the risk of harmful that could affect its own crops | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-56353963 | 2021-03-20 |
| And secondly it does appear that the loss of discipline around the social distancing face masks has been more likely in the younger populations. | Negative | The flareup was down to a bit of a loss of discipline said Dr Kelechi Nnoaham director of public health for Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56441619 | 2021-03-19 |
| Craigs James Bond will come face to face with Tates Nan character in a sketch to be aired later as part of this years charity fundraiser. | Positive | Craigs James Bond will come face to face with Tates Nan character in a sketch to be aired later as part of this years charity fundraiser. | http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56442606 | 2021-03-19 |
| When he takes over he will face the worst numbers in the pandemic Mr Gabbardo tweeted do not take a stand against a national lockdown | Negative | On Tuesday Brazil recorded 2841 Covidrelated deaths its highest ever daily total. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56424611 | 2021-03-17 |
| In the preface to A Savage War of Peace Horne Above all the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and state torture | Negative | Does French President Emmanuel Macron really understand the legacy of | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56360817 | 2021-03-17 |
| Rulebreakers face stricter penalties including a prison sentence of up to 10 years for those who lie about having been in a banned red list country. | Negative | It means returning travellers will be able to quarantine at home rather than in a hotel at a cost of | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56408556 | 2021-03-16 |
| Protective measures put in place in schools including the use of face masks will be kept under review the education minister said. | Positive | All remaining primary school children pupils in years 11 and 13 and many college students are starting back. | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56387862 | 2021-03-16 |
| She puts a brave face on it but shes isolating at home | Neutral | She hasnt seen her mother since October 2019. | http://www.bbc.com/news/business-56377166 | 2021-03-15 |
| Instead of mapping the 3D shape of a face here we have the shape of the flow through a wastewater treatment works | Positive | Scientists identified 926 spill events from two wastewater treatment plants over an 11year period by employing machine learning | http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56351501 | 2021-03-15 |
| As the authorities tracked down the militants an emergency shortterm ban on face coverings was implemented in the majorityBuddhist nation | Negative | Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekara told the BBC that he had signed a cabinet order which now needs parliamentary approval. | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56386426 | 2021-03-15 |
| Andy Salisbury principal entomologist at the RHS said the pests and diseases that gardeners commonly face on their plots have fluctuated over the last 25 years. | Negative | The brown marmorated stink bug has been spotted at three places in England so far but experts are warning that it may become more widespread. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-56366107 | 2021-03-12 |
| Was todays vote about all face coverings from niqabs and burkas to the scarves rioters sometimes pull over their | Negative | Official results showed the measure had passed by 51 | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-56314173 | 2021-03-08 |
| How can we face the problem seeing people die every The health system in Brazil is on the verge of collapse Mr Doria said. | Negative | His comments came a day after Brazil saw a record rise in deaths over a 24hour period | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-56288548 | 2021-03-06 |
| About 35 states required face coverings to be worn in public places although enforcement of these mask mandates has been patchy. | Negative | I think its a big mistake he said. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-56275103 | 2021-03-04 |
| About 35 required face coverings to be worn in public places either or outdoor although enforcement of these mask mandates has been patchy. | Negative | It is now time to open Texas the Republican said on Tuesday. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-56255701 | 2021-03-03 |
| Dressed in a blue tshirt and grey trousers he came barefoot his face covered with a checked scarf as he was whisked away by policemen. | Neutral | When police approached Bibekananda Biswals home last week in Pune district in the western state of Maharashtra they say he tried to run away. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-56183408 | 2021-02-26 |
| Capitol Police Captain Carneysha Mendoza described the clashes telling lawmakers that she has chemical burns on her face from attackers that still have not fully healed. | Negative | Testifying to a Senate committee the officials said that the rioters came prepared for war with weapons radios and climbing gear. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-56174168 | 2021-02-24 |
| Sir Patrick also said baseline measures such as face coverings in certain situations hand washing and selfisolation may be necessary next winter. | Negative | The prime ministers cautious strategy could see the Covid restrictions fully eased by 21 June if strict conditions are met. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-56164098 | 2021-02-23 |
| The fact that tracking will take place and what that involves should be put in the users face and involve them opting in. | Neutral | Heys review indicated that twothirds of emails sent to its users personal accounts contained a spy pixel even after excluding for spam. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-56071437 | 2021-02-17 |
| In a speech on the Senate floor he implied Mr Trump should face criminal and civil litigation because he was still liable for everything he did while in office. | Negative | Mitch is a dour sullen and unsmiling political hack said Mr Trump and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him they will not win again | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-56092781 | 2021-02-17 |
| They show softened resin covering subjects face mouth and neck and partially penetrating their ears and nose before being removed. | Neutral | They show softened resin covering subjects face mouth and neck and partially penetrating their ears and nose before being removed. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-56071436 | 2021-02-16 |
| Transmission slowed in the badlyhit cities because of the expanded use of face masks physical distancing school and office closures and people working from home. | Negative | Is the pandemic firmly in retreat in a country where many early modellers had predicted millions of deaths due to | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-56037565 | 2021-02-15 |
| CaSSIS flies over the surface at about so the images have to be taken very quickly | Neutral | This month the Red Planet entered its new year what is known as Year 36 and it has not long been overtaken by Earth in its orbit of the Sun | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-55943374 | 2021-02-13 |
| Weve got permission so if it touches down successfully on the surface then all is good and we should see its heatshield | Positive | This month the Red Planet entered its new year what is known as Year 36 and it has not long been overtaken by Earth in its orbit of the Sun | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-55943374 | 2021-02-13 |
| Workers now had face shields and higherquality masks and engineers were reviewing air conditioners and air flows the state government said. | Neutral | The country has largely eliminated the virus often going weeks without a locally acquired infection | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-55929180 | 2021-02-09 |
| It is not clear at this point whom Mr Arauz will face in the second round as indigenous leader Yaku and conservative banker Guillermo Lasso are neckandneck | Negative | The runoff is scheduled for 11 April. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-55934856 | 2021-02-09 |
| Gay people and other sexual minorities face systematic persecution in predominantly Muslim Chechnya where homophobia is widespread. | Negative | The Russian LGBT Network said Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isayev had been seized and returned by Russian police | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-55963898 | 2021-02-07 |
| Rivers lakes and snowcaps along the illdefined 3440km border mean the line can shift bringing soldiers face to face at many points sometimes leading to confrontation. | Negative | The incident took place in north Sikkim last Wednesday | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-55793112 | 2021-01-25 |
| The miner brought to the surface was extremely weak said a post on CCTVs Weibo microblog site | Negative | They have been trapped since an explosion closed the entrance tunnel to the Hushan gold mine in Shandong province on 10 January. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-55784231 | 2021-01-24 |
| Given the finding of SARSCoV2 on the surface of imported food packages contact with contaminated uncooked food could be an important source of SARSCoV2 transmission she wrote | Positive | For much of the past year she has met the suggestion that SarsCov2 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with angry denial. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-55765875 | 2021-01-23 |
| Globally as women get older she says they face the double whammy of sexism and ageism but in India unlike in the West we dont invisibilise older women. | Positive | Ms Joy said what attracted her to the actress was how she was so different from her own mother | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-55644055 | 2021-01-15 |
| On the surface Uganda has a lively media industry which has grown to hundreds of private radio and TV stations print outlets and internetbased services under Mr Museveni | Positive | For this revolutionary the harvest is still not over. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-55550932 | 2021-01-10 |
| Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman spoke out as ministers face growing pressure to keep all schools in England closed after the Christmas holidays. | Negative | Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman spoke out as ministers face growing pressure to keep all schools in England closed after the Christmas holidays. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-55333685 | 2021-01-03 |
