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South Korea can seek extradition linked to 2014 ferry sinking -U.S. judge
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday said a South Korean man wanted on embezzlement charges related to a 2014 ferry sinking that killed 304 people, mainly high school studen...
Jul 02, 2021
Fed’s Daly: ‘We’re on our way’ back to pre-crisis employment levels
(Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said Friday that at the current pace of job growth, averaged over the past three months, U.S. employment could regain its pre-cris...
Jul 02, 2021
Argentina opens door to U.S. vaccine donations with legal tweak
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina will tweak legislation to help the country receive U.S. donations of COVID-19 vaccinations, senior officials said on Friday, a move that could also help unlock deals...
Jul 02, 2021
Saudi Arabia bans entry from UAE, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Afghanistan -agency
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will restrict travel to and entry from Ethiopia, UAE, Vietnam and Afghanistan over coronavirus concerns, the state news agency (WAS) reported on Saturday. The ban goes i...
Jul 02, 2021
French economic growth will depend on COVID-19 vaccines -finance minister
PARIS (Reuters) - France's economic growth will be dependent upon its COVID-19 vaccination programme, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told Le Parisien newspaper in an interview published on its...
Jul 02, 2021
‘Eye of fire’ in Mexican waters snuffed out, says national oil company
By Adriana Barrera and Marianna Parraga MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -A fire on the ocean surface west of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula early on Friday has been extinguished, state oil company Pemex said, blami...
Jul 02, 2021
From wasteland to bustling base, last U.S. forces say goodbye to Bagram
By Peter Graff (Reuters) - This was the moment. The sky lit up with explosions over Kabul. We could see the headlights of Taliban trucks leaving the capital. The Northern Alliance fighters danced in a...
Jul 02, 2021
Biden celebrates new citizens as U.S. launches naturalization effort
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden celebrated new U.S. citizens at an event at the White House on Friday, the same day his administration rolled out a government-wide strat...
Jul 02, 2021
U.S. to ship 4 million vaccine doses to Indonesia ‘as soon as possible’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will ship 4 million doses of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine to Indonesia as it battles a coronavirus outbreak, the U.S. national security adviser told the Indo...
Jul 02, 2021
Mexico reports 5,879 new cases of COVID-19, 177 more deaths
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's health ministry on Friday reported 5,879 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country and 177 more fatalities, bringing its total to 2,531,229 infections and 233,425...
Jul 02, 2021
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