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U.S. administers more than 318 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 318,576,441 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Those figures are up from t...
Jun 21, 2021
Colombia’s COVID-19 deaths pass 100,000 in unrelenting third wave
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Reported deaths from COVID-19 in Colombia passed 100,000 on Monday, the country's health ministry said, amid warnings of potential scarcity of treatment drugs and oxygen in hospital...
Jun 21, 2021
Raiders’ Nassib says he is gay
(Reuters) - Las Vegas Raiders' defensive end Carl Nassib said on Monday he was gay, making him the first active National Football League player to come out publicly. "I just wanted to take a quick mom...
Jun 21, 2021
Postcards from Tokyo: light and shadow ahead of pandemic Olympics
(Removes extraneous material.) By Maki Shiraki and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - The Tokyo Tower and other landmarks were lit in special Olympic colours in April to mark 100 days before the Summer...
Jun 21, 2021
Raiders DE Carl Nassib becomes first openly gay NFL player
Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib announced Monday that he is gay, making him the first active NFL player to acknowledge his homosexuality. He made his proclamation in a video posted to Inst...
Jun 21, 2021
Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes Dodecanese Islands-Turkey border region- EMSC
(Corrects day in paragraph 1) (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck on the Dodecanese Islands in Greece and the Turkey Border region on Tuesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Ce...
Jun 21, 2021
Mexico’s coronavirus death toll rises to 231,244
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's health ministry on Monday reported 1,268 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country and 57 more fatalities, bringing the total figures to 2,478,551 infections and ...
Jun 21, 2021
Brazil Congress approves main text of Eletrobras privatization bill
By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of Congress on Monday approved the main text of a bill allowing the privatization of state-controlled energy giant Eletrobras, with...
Jun 21, 2021
U.S. seeks to extradite Turkish businessman over fraud charges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will seek to extradite a Turkish businessman from Austria so he can appear before a U.S. judge in Utah, where he is facing charges of conspiring to commit mone...
Jun 21, 2021
Washington in talks over removal of foreign fighters from Libya – U.S. envoy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is in talks with some of the key actors in Libya over the withdrawal of foreign forces ahead of elections planned for December, Washington's top Libya envoy sa...
Jun 21, 2021
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