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Samoa’s top court rules that first female prime minister’s inauguration was legal
By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) - Samoa's Court of Appeal ruled on Friday a makeshift swearing in ceremony for the country's next government was legal, officially installing Samoa's first female p...
Jul 23, 2021
Maskless Kyrgyzstan rain on Olympic opening parade as other teams cover faces
TOKYO (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's Olympic team paraded maskless into Tokyo's National Stadium at Friday's Games opening ceremony, marking an awkward contrast with all the national teams who had preceded ...
Jul 23, 2021
Russian central bank governor speaks at press conference
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina spoke at an online press conference after the central bank raised its key rate to 6.50% on Friday. Below are the highlights of he...
Jul 23, 2021
Bosnia’s peace envoy imposes jail terms for genocide denial
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Bosnia's outgoing international peace overseer decreed amendments to its criminal code on Friday to allow jail terms for the denial of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, a frequently e...
Jul 23, 2021
Factbox-U.S. companies raise product prices to tackle wage, raw material inflation
(Reuters) - A slew of major U.S. companies - reeling from the impact of high prices of raw materials, increased labor expenses, and supply-chain woes - are raising prices of their products as demand f...
Jul 23, 2021
England’s COVID R number unchanged, daily growth rate broadly stable
LONDON (Reuters) - The COVID-19 reproduction "R" number in England is estimated at between 1.2 and 1.4, the government's latest weekly estimate said on Friday, unchanged on the previous week, with the...
Jul 23, 2021
About 5% of us have THIS in common. What is THIS?
July 23, 2021 Q: About 5% of us have THIS in common. What is THIS? A: We have a third nipple (Approximately one out of every 18 people has a third nipple. That seems like a lot, but some of them are s...
Jul 23, 2021 I G / CC
UNESCO keeps Great Barrier Reef off “in danger” list after Australian lobbying
By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Great Barrier Reef will not be added to a list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger" after a UN panel on Friday agreed to defer a vote until 2022 amid ...
Jul 23, 2021
ECB policymakers don’t expect to decide on bond buys in September -sources
By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymakers do not expect to decide on the future of their emergency bond purchase programme in September as there w...
Jul 23, 2021
Public Health England says signs of increased reinfection risk with Delta variant
LONDON (Reuters) - Public Health England on Friday said that there were early signs of increased reinfection risk from the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant compared to Alpha, in an updat...
Jul 23, 2021
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