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Local COVID roundup 6/9: 24-hour death count high, new cases dwindle
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria and Woodford Counties between Tuesday and Wednesday lost two residents, apiece, to COVID-19 complications. In Peoria, a woman in her 60s and a man in his 80s died. Both Woo...
Jeremy Scott Jun 09, 2021
Russia declares Navalny’s groups ‘extremist’ in ongoing crackdown -lawyers
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Wednesday approved a request by prosecutors to declare organisations linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny "extremist" in a move that outlaws the groups,...
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GameStop taps two Amazon executives as CEO, CFO
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Noel Randewich and Eva Mathews (Reuters) -GameStop on Wednesday named two Amazon executives as its chief executive and chief financial officer, the biggest changes at the once-...
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Turkey optimistic about Erdogan-Biden meeting at NATO summit -minister
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is hoping that a meeting between President Tayyip Erdogan and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden at next week's NATO summit will yield positive results, Foreign Minister Mevlut C...
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U.S. Attorney General defends backing Trump claim in defamation case
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday defended a decision by the Justice Department to continue to defend Donald Trump against a lawsuit by a writ...
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Tennis-Opportunity knocks for unlikely quartet in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) - After a wildly unpredictable women's singles at the French Open, four Grand Slam semi-final debutants will line up on Thursday with a golden opportunity knocking. Not since the 1978 ...
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Meat-free diet may lower severe disease risk; no serious problems found with AstraZeneca shot in Scotland
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
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Colombia cut coca crop area in 2020 but cocaine output rose -UNODC
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia reduced the area occupied by coca across the country by 7% in 2020, although potential output of cocaine rose 8% to 1,228 metric tons a year, the United Nations Office on D...
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Spain backtracks on nightlife rules after regional complaints
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's health ministry on Wednesday scrapped a nationwide plan to gradually reopen nightlife just a week after introducing it, following widespread complaints from regional authori...
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Turkey says Iraq’s Makhmour camp must be cleared of Kurdish militants
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday that northern Iraq's Makhmour camp, where Turkish air strikes killed at least three people at the weekend, must be cleare...
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