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Draghi to set up long-term board to oversee Italy Recovery Plan -draft
By Giuseppe Fonte and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi plans to set up a board of technical experts to strictly oversee management of Italy's five-year Recovery Plan, a...
May 27, 2021
Cuban baseball player defects in Florida
HAVANA (Reuters) - One of Cuba's top baseball players, Cesar Prieto, has defected after arriving in Florida with the national team to compete in an Olympics qualifying tournament. "His decision, contr...
May 27, 2021
Sweeping bill to counter China wins enough support to advance in U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country's ability to compete with China won enough support in the U.S. Senate on Thursday to advance toward a vote on fin...
May 27, 2021
A motorcyclist, a ‘jack-of-all-trades’: the victims of California railyard massacre
(Reuters) - To his friends, Lars Kepler Lane - also known as "Keppy" - was a laid back, ordinary guy who liked to spend time with family and take on projects outside his work at the Valley Transportat...
May 27, 2021
Soccer-Simone Inzaghi set to become Inter coach – report
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian champions Inter Milan are set to agree terms with Simone Inzaghi to take over as head coach following the departure of Antonio Conte, Football Italia website reported on Thur...
May 27, 2021
Motor racing-Rosberg reports ‘phenomenal’ sponsor interest in Extreme E
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Sponsor interest in the Extreme E electric off-road racing series has accelerated since last month's debut in Saudi Arabia, team owner and 2016 Formula One champion ...
May 27, 2021
State COVID roundup 5/27: Fewer than 900 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Thursday reported 891 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 42 additional deaths. More than 63,000 doses of COVID-19 va...
May 27, 2021
U.S. urges change in fishing practices to save endangered whales
(Reuters) - U.S. commercial fishing practices must change to prevent the extinction of North Atlantic right whales, the administration of President Joe Biden said on Thursday, as it prepares a list of...
May 27, 2021
New coral reef restoration technology aims to reverse climate change damage
By Cassandra Garrison (Reuters) - Marine scientist Deborah Brosnan remembers "feeling like a visitor at an amazing party" on her diving trips to a bay near the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy whe...
May 27, 2021
Motor racing-Bottas’s wheel is finally freed
LONDON (Reuters) - Mercedes have finally stopped the clock on Valtteri Bottas's Monaco Grand Prix tyre change after removing a stuck wheel from his car two days after it forced his retirement. The For...
May 27, 2021
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