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Tunisia says health care system collapsing due to COVID-19
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's health care system is collapsing due to the coronavirus, with intensive care departments full and doctors overburdened by a rapid outbreak of cases and deaths, the health m...
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Britain’s Lloyds fined $125 million for misleading insurance customers
LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group has been fined 91 million pounds($125.25 million) for misleading insurance customers over an eight year period, in one of the largest fines levied against a len...
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U.S. to send 500,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses to Uruguay
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will ship 500,000 doses of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine to Uruguay on Thursday, the White House said, amid a wider distribution to Latin American nations this...
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India appoints veteran diplomat as new oil minister
By Nidhi Verma and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Veteran diplomat Hardeep Singh Puri became India's new oil minister on Thursday, an appointment welcomed by energy experts who expect him to st...
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Beyond Meat brings back alt-meat chicken offering with launch of tenders
(Reuters) -Beyond Meat Inc brought back a chicken offering to its product portfolio with the launch of plant-based chicken tenders on Thursday as the faux-meat maker looks to capitalize on booming dem...
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Olympics-For Tokyo 2020 ticketholders, an Olympic dream gets dashed
By Sakura Murakami and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Even as several events in the run-up to the Olympics were cancelled and the number of domestic spectators capped, Ryuichi Ishikawa had clung to hop...
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Factbox-Olympics-Money, money, money: the cost of Tokyo’s pandemic-delayed Games
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Despite public opposition in Japan over fears of new coronavirus surges, the Tokyo Olympic Games that were postponed last year will get under way on July 23, with spec...
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Factbox-From triumph of 1964 Olympics to COVID: Japan then and now
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan hoped holding the 2020 Olympics would reprise the triumph of 1964, when it became the first Asian host of the Games and gained a huge economic boost, but the cor...
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Olympics-Japanese medics welcome bar on spectators but warn risks remain
By Rocky Swift and Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) - Medical experts in Japan welcomed a decision to hold the Tokyo Olympics without spectators under coronavirus restrictions but cautioned that the ban wi...
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Tennis-‘Athletes are humans’: Osaka stands by decision to skip media duties
(Reuters) - World number two Naomi Osaka said she was under immense pressure to disclose more details when she stepped away from the French Open for a mental health break, but is now ready to make Jap...
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