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Olympics-Shooting-Britain’s Hill out of Games due to COVID-19 positive
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's world number one shooter Amber Hill withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday after she tested positive for COVID-19 before departure, Team GB said in a statement. Hil...
Jul 21, 2021
Germany’s coronavirus incidence to surpass 400 in September at current pace – minister
BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of infections per 100,000 people over seven days in Germany will reach more than 400 in September if case numbers keep rising at their current pace, Health Minister Jens ...
Jul 21, 2021
Argentina’s Buenos Aires says makes breakthrough in $7 billion debt talks
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's Buenos Aires province, which has been negotiating a $7 billion restructuring of its foreign debt for over a year, said that it had reached a breakthrough agreement...
Jul 21, 2021
Porsche must pay 40 million eur for breach of duty on tax filings – prosecutor
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German carmaker Porsche must pay a fine of 40 million euros ($47 million) for breach of duty relating to its tax filings, German prosecutors said on Wednesday. ($1 = 0.8494 euros...
Jul 21, 2021
Olympics-Soccer-Britain’s women’s team take knee in Olympic opener
TOKYO (Reuters) - Great Britain's women's footballers took the knee before their Tokyo Olympics opening 2-0 win over Chile on Wednesday, fulfilling a pre-Games promise to support racial equality and e...
Jul 21, 2021
Kanye West teases new music ahead of ‘Donda’ album release
(Reuters) - Kanye West will release his 10th solo studio album "Donda" on Friday, teasing his new music in an advert during the NBA Finals featuring U.S. sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson, who missed out ...
Jul 21, 2021
No health pass, no cinema or museum: France tightens COVID-19 rules
By Emilie Delwarde PARIS (Reuters) - Where's your health pass? Visitors heading to museums, cinemas or swimming pools in France will be denied entry from Wednesday if they cannot show the document tha...
Jul 21, 2021
Some Hong Kong banks decline mortgages for Evergrande’s off-plan projects
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Some banks in Hong Kong, including HSBC and Standard Chartered, are declining loans to buyers of Chinese property developer Evergrande Group's two uncompleted residential project...
Jul 21, 2021
Olympics-Tennis-Adjusting to Games atmosphere main challenge, says Swiatek’s psychologist
By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Adjusting to COVID-19 protocols in Tokyo may be easy for globe-trotting tennis players, but adjusting to the social environment at the Olympics will be a real chal...
Jul 21, 2021
No. 2 U.S. diplomat Sherman to visit China July 25-26 -State Dept
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will visit China next week as part of a larger Asia trip, the State Department said on Wednesday, marking the highest-level visit by...
Jul 21, 2021
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