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MLB roundup: Braves use 6-run 8th to sweep Cards
Austin Riley hit a two-run homer as the visiting Atlanta Braves scored six runs in the eighth inning to rally past the St. Louis Cardinals 8-4 Thursday night and complete a three-game sweep. The Brave...
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Olympics-Cycling-German official banned by UCI until Dec. 31 for racist remarks
TOKYO (Reuters) - The sporting director of the German cycling federation has been suspended until the end of the year after making racist remarks during the men's Olympic road time trial at Tokyo 2020...
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Olympics-Athletics-Italy’s Palmisano wins women’s 20km race walk
By Chris Gallagher SAPPORO, Japan (Reuters) -Italy's Antonella Palmisano won the women's Olympic 20km race walk on Friday with a time of one hour, 29 minutes and 12 seconds, bringing her country its f...
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Home-brewers thrive in northern Nigeria despite trouble with religious police
By Angela Ukomadu and Seun Sanni KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - In Nigeria's northern Kano state, Janet Peter stirs a thick and frothy brown liquid inside a large cast iron pot, worrying all the while that...
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Tunisia places senior official from Islamist Ennahda party under house arrest
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's interior ministry has placed Anouar Maarouf, a senior official in the Islamist Ennahda party, under house arrest, an Ennahda official told Reuters. Maarouf is a former mini...
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Take Five: Dodging the summer squalls
LONDON (Reuters) - Below are five events and themes likely to dominate global financial markets next week. 1/INFLATION PALPITATIONS U.S. consumer price data out on Wednesday will provide some answers ...
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South Africa’s Zuma admitted to hospital from prison
LONDON (Reuters) - South Africa's jailed former president, Jacob Zuma, was admitted to hospital for medical observation on Friday, the government's Correctional Services department said. Zuma has been...
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Olympics-Cycling-Britain win gold in the women’s madison
IZU, Japan (Reuters) - Britain's Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald won the gold medal in the Olympic women's madison at the Izu Velodrome on Friday. Denmark took the silver medal and the Russian Olympic...
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‘Really, really sad’ Messi’s exit sends shockwave through Barcelona
By Luis Felipe Castilleja and Albert Gea BARCELONA (Reuters) - FC Barcelona fans were left reeling on Friday after the club announced that star striker Lionel Messi would be leaving the Camp Nou, wher...
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Drought compounds humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as conflict intensifies
By Kanupriya Kapoor SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Millions of Afghans are struggling to put food on the table as prolonged drought disrupts supplies in a country reeling from a surge in violence as U.S.-led f...
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