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Olympics: PETA calls on IOC president to remove equestrian events from Games
(Reuters) - PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday to eliminate equestrian events from future Olympics citing cruelty to horse...
Aug 13, 2021
U.N. says evaluating Afghanistan security hourly, no staff evacuation
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is evaluating the security situation in Afghanistan on "an hour-by-hour basis" and moving some staff to the capital Kabul, but is not ...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. military base in Washington on lockdown due to potential armed individual
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A military base in Washington, D.C., said it was on lockdown on Friday because there was a potentially armed person it described as a Black man with a medium build carrying a Gu...
Aug 13, 2021
In desperation, U.S. scours for countries willing to house Afghan refugees
By Idrees Ali, Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration has been holding secret talks with more countries than previously known in a desperate atte...
Aug 13, 2021
Tony Bennett hangs up concert hat on doctor’s orders
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American singer Tony Bennett is stepping back from concert performances at the age of 95, his son said on Friday. Bennett, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016, c...
Aug 13, 2021
Boeing to return Starliner to factory, launch delayed
(Reuters) -Boeing Co will return its CST-100 Starliner to the factory to resolve a valve issue, the company said on Friday, delaying the launch date of the space capsule to the International Space Sta...
Aug 13, 2021
‘It’s like a war zone’ – U.S. Air Force veteran comforts children plagued by gun violence
By Vanessa Johnston WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Davon McNeal was just 11 years old when he was struck in the head by a stray bullet at a Fourth of July cookout in Washington, D.C., last year. Now, every Fr...
Aug 13, 2021
Alberta backtracks on COVID-19 curbs as Canadian province’s hospitalizations jump
By Rod Nickel (Reuters) - Alberta backtracked on Friday on plans to lift its remaining COVID-19 restrictions, as hospitalizations and infections rose in the Western Canadian province just weeks before...
Aug 13, 2021
Reluctant French get Covid vaccination as health pass closes doors
By Yiming Woo and Antony Paone PARIS (Reuters) - Reluctant French people lined up to get vaccinated as authorities were set to get tougher on the mandatory health pass for entering restaurants, trains...
Aug 13, 2021
Cuba says early data suggests homegrown vaccine protecting against Delta
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba, grappling with a dire COVID-19 outbreak fueled by the Delta variant, said "only 21,000," or 0.8% of the 2.5 million people inoculated with its homegrown vaccines, had fallen i...
Aug 13, 2021
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