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Athletics-Semenya fails in latest bid to qualify for Tokyo Olympics
DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya failed in her latest bid to qualify for this year's Tokyo Games, finishing well outside the qualifying mark for the 5...
May 28, 2021
State COVID roundup 5/28: case count back under 1k
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A total of 982 people throughout Illinois between Thursday and Friday tested positive for the coronavirus, while 21 died from it. The Illinois Department of Public Health sai...
May 28, 2021
Soccer-Gundogan picks up minor knock in City’s final training session
By Simon Evans PORTO, Portugal (Reuters) - Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan limped out of their last training session on the eve of Saturday's Champions League final against Chelsea. The Germ...
May 28, 2021
U.S. health agency eases masking guidance for summer camps where all are vaccinated
By David Shepardson and Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - The top U.S. health agency on Friday relaxed guidance for mask-wearing at summer camps, saying that camps do not need to require children to wear mas...
May 28, 2021
Republican-backed bills restricting vote advance across U.S., report finds
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Fourteen U.S. states have enacted 22 laws this year that make it more difficult for Americans to vote, according to a report released on Friday, as Republican lawmakers pursue...
May 28, 2021
Dutch to allow bars, restaurants to reopen in ‘calculated risk’
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands will ease COVID-19 lockdown measures next week, allowing bars and restaurants to serve indoors and museums to reopen in what Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday c...
May 28, 2021
Mexican president says Constellation will build new beer factory
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's president said on Friday that U.S. brewer Constellation Brands will build a new brewery somewhere in the southeastern part of the country, following a deal he said his...
May 28, 2021
Ireland adopts COVID passport to allow EU, UK and U.S. travel from July 19
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will adopt a COVID-19 certificate to help citizens move more freely across the European Union from July 19 and broadly apply the same approach to arrivals from the United St...
May 28, 2021
WHO expert says the issue of COVID-19 origins ‘poisoned by politics’
(Reuters) - The World Health Organization's (WHO) top emergency expert Mike Ryan on Friday urged for the separation of the "politics" of the question of the origin of the coronavirus from the science ...
May 28, 2021
Italy to approve reform decree to unlock EU Recovery funds
By Giuseppe Fonte and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government will meet later on Friday to approve a decree setting out how it will oversee investments funded by the European Union and acc...
May 28, 2021
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