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Athletics-Rules for intersex athletes similar to apartheid, says Cameroon minister-counsellor
(Reuters) - World Athletics is discriminating against women with intersex variations by requiring them to reduce high testosterone levels to participate in the female category and the rules are simila...
Jul 07, 2021
India’s patchy monsoon rains to pick up later this week -weather official
By Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's crucial monsoon rains, which turned patchy at the tail-end of June, will pick up later this week, a weather department official said, helping farmers a...
Jul 07, 2021
India expects 3-4 million Pfizer, Moderna vaccine doses through COVAX by August- sources
By Rupam Jain and Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India expects to receive 3 million to 4 million doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 shots through the COVAX facility by August, two sources said...
Jul 07, 2021
COVID Delta variant represents around 40% of French cases -government
PARIS (Reuters) -The highly contagious Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus now represents around 40 percent of France's COVID cases, said French government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Wednesday, who al...
Jul 07, 2021
Grassroots of Home: Tom Jones joins small-gig kick-start for UK live music scene
LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Jones and Rag'n'Bone Man are the star names in a line-up of singers scheduled to give more than 300 concerts at grassroots venues across Britain this summer, helping to kick-sta...
Jul 07, 2021
Olympics-Mills and Campbell named Australia’s flag bearers for Tokyo Games
(Reuters) - Basketball player Patty Mills will become the first Indigenous Australian to carry the country's flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympics after he was selected for the honour alongside...
Jul 07, 2021
Nasdaq futures scale new peak, all eyes on Fed minutes
By Devik Jain and Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) - The Nasdaq futures hit a record high on Wednesday as a fall in Treasury yields supported tech-heavy growth stocks, while investors focused on the Federal...
Jul 07, 2021
IMF chief sees risk of sustained rise in U.S. inflation
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday said further fiscal support in the United States could fuel inflationary pressures and warned that the risk of a su...
Jul 07, 2021
Airline body to open Saudi office but denies it will be regional HQ
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday that global airlines had agreed to open a regional headquarters in Riyadh but the industry's main trade association denied it would be a regional base ...
Jul 07, 2021
UnityPoint plans new $24 million mental health facility
PEORIA, Ill. — UnityPoint Health UnityPlace has plans in the works for a new $24 million behavioral health clinic for children and adolescents. “Especially post-pandemic is an increase in ...
Jul 07, 2021
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