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Vietnam health ministry reports 7,913 new coronavirus infections
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam reported 7,913 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, the fifth straight day the country has recorded more than 7,000 cases as it battles its largest and most difficult outbr...
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Bangkok to convert disused train carriages into COVID-19 ward
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Authorities in Thailand's capital Bangkok plan to convert 15 disused railway carriages into a 240-bed COVID-19 isolation ward for patients with less severe symptoms, the city's gov...
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Indonesia optimistic of reaching net zero emissions by 2060 or earlier
By Fransiska Nangoy JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is optimistic of reaching a net zero emissions target by 2060 or sooner, a senior minister said on Tuesday, after the government submitted updated nat...
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Indonesia considers COVID-19 booster shots for wider use – govt official
By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia, which uses the Sinovac vaccine as its main COVID-19 inoculation, is considering providing a booster shot, as a study showed antibodies provided by th...
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Tunisian Islamist party urges dialogue to resolve political crisis
By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's biggest party, the moderate Islamist Ennahda, on Tuesday called for a national dialogue to get the country out of crisis after it accused the president of a ...
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Amazon-backed Wiliot raises $200 million in investment led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2
(Reuters) - Wiliot, a technology company backed by Amazon Web Services and Qualcomm Inc, said on Tuesday it raised $200 million in a funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The company, which mak...
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Olympics-Fencing-Estonia wins gold in women’s team epee
TOKYO (Reuters) - Estonia won gold in the women's team epee fencing competition on Tuesday. South Korea took silver, and Italy bronze. (Reporting by Sakura Murakami; editing by John Stonestreet)
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Pakistan, Saudi Arabia to work on easing travel restrictions
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday discussed how to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions, which have stranded around 400,000 Pakistani workers back home, foreign m...
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Libya headed back to ‘square one’ of post-Gaddafi turmoil if polls delayed: parliamentary speaker
By Ayman al-Werfali QUBAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libya will return to "square one" and the turmoil of 2011 if national elections planned for December are delayed, the speaker of parliament said, with a ne...
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Olympics-Weightlifting-Guryeva makes history with Turkmenistan’s first medal
By Ece Toksabay and Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) - Weightlifter Polina Guryeva made history on Tuesday as Turkmenistan's first Olympic medallist and, as the shock sank in, began wondering how she migh...
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