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Tennis-Second seed Sabalenka crushes Niculescu at Wimbledon
LONDON (Reuters) - Second seed Aryna Sabalenka struck a barrage winners to blitz past Romanian qualifier Monica Niculescu 6-1 6-4 on Monday and reach the second round of Wimbledon. With persistent rai...
Jun 28, 2021
Polish Catholic Church facing wave of sex abuse allegations
WARSAW (Reuters) - The Catholic Church in Poland is facing a wave of allegations of sexual abuse, church authorities said on Monday, as they laid out statistics on the extent of abuse amid an investig...
Jun 28, 2021
Large fire breaks out in south London railway arch
LONDON (Reuters) - A large fire has broken out in a railway arch in south London, the British capital's fire brigade said on Monday, diverting trains and sending plumes of black smoke billowing into t...
Jun 28, 2021
Trade curbs related to pandemic are falling: WTO
GENEVA (Reuters) - G20 countries have repealed nearly half of the trade restrictions they introduced in response to the pandemic, a World Trade Organization report said on Monday. "While the report's ...
Jun 28, 2021
Iraq ‘studies legal options’ over U.S. strike on Iran-aligned fighters – statement
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government condemned a U.S. air raid against Iran-aligned fighters along its border with Syria on Monday and said it would "study all legal options" to prevent such actio...
Jun 28, 2021
U.S. envoy Kerry says world needs a ‘wartime mentality’ over climate
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Monday the world needed to adopt a "wartime mentality" to face the challenge posed by climate change, urging development banks to scale up thei...
Jun 28, 2021
Italy says its relations with U.S. far more important than with China
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Monday that Rome's relations with the United States are much more important than its ties with China. The United States has expressed co...
Jun 28, 2021
Spain’s PM Sanchez says economic output rose 18% in second quarter
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish economic output rose a record 18% in the second quarter of 2021 compared with the same period in the previous year, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday. "We have a b...
Jun 28, 2021
Declawed TikTok lion rescued from Phnom Penh home
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Authorities raided a house in a wealthy district of Phnom Penh to rescue an 18-month-old lion that had been defanged, declawed and illegally kept as a pet. They said they had tr...
Jun 28, 2021
France’s highest appeals court rules glue-trapping of songbirds is illegal
PARIS (Reuters) - France's highest administrative appeals court ruled on Monday that the glue-trapping of songbirds is illegal. France suspended the glue-trapping of songbirds last year, but had stopp...
Jun 28, 2021
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