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Erdogan says Turkish contacts with UAE have made progress
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, bitter rivals in the Middle East, have been in contact in recent months and made some progress, President Tayyip Erdogan said after rare talks...
Aug 18, 2021
Court ruling further undermines Austria’s stance on deporting Afghans
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that there was no prospect of deporting a rejected asylum seeker back to Afghanistan for now, further undermining the government's ...
Aug 18, 2021
Erdogan says Turkey still aims to maintain Kabul airport security
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey still aims to maintain security at Kabul airport, after Taliban fighters took control of Afghanistan's capital. NATO member ...
Aug 18, 2021
Golf-Morikawa tries to avoid burnout in sprint through playoffs
(Reuters) - Collin Morikawa has enjoyed a meteoric rise since turning pro in 2019 and on Wednesday said his gameplan for the opening event of the FedExCup Playoffs this week in New Jersey is to not bu...
Aug 18, 2021
Facebook removes dozens of vaccine misinformation ‘superspreaders’
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it removed over three dozen pages spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, after the White House called on social media firms to tighten controls on pandemic-rel...
Aug 18, 2021
Drop in COVID-19 vaccine efficacy against Delta seen in U.S. nursing homes
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for people in American nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where residents are often elderly and frail, has dropped since the...
Aug 18, 2021
Canada’s hot inflation takes center stage in election campaign
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) -At the gas pumps and in the grocery store, on their utility bills and especially when looking for housing, Canadians are feeling the pinch of red-hot inflation and th...
Aug 18, 2021
Islamist militants kill 47 people in northern Burkina Faso
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Islamist militants in northern Burkina Faso killed at least 47 people, including 30 civilians and 14 soldiers, in an attack on Wednesday, state media reported. The attack near t...
Aug 18, 2021
Biden administration seeks to block Taliban from accessing reserves from IMF -New York Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration wants to block the Taliban from accessing more than $400 million in emergency reserves that the International Monetary Fund is scheduled to release to A...
Aug 18, 2021
Afghan film director recounts escape from Kabul
By Margaryta Chornokondratenko KYIV (Reuters) - Sahraa Karimi had been waiting in line for nearly three hours to withdraw money from a bank in Kabul on Sunday when the bank manager came over and urged...
Aug 18, 2021
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