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Bulgaria’s new ITN party neck-and-neck with GERB before July election
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's new anti-establishment party There Is Such a People (ITN) stood neck-and-neck with centre-right GERB, which has been in power for most of the past decade, ahead of a snap ...
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Olympics-McKeown stakes another claim as the backstroker to beat in Tokyo
By Richard Evans ADELAIDE, Australia (Reuters) - Despite a week of ever faster times and broken records at the South Australia Aquatic Centre, the final night of the swimming trials to see who would m...
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Berlin police force entry to long-time squat under hail of fireworks, smoke bombs
BERLIN (Reuters) - Police in Berlin used battering rams and chainsaws on Thursday to force their way into a house occupied by squatters who threw fireworks and smoke bombs from the windows above, a da...
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Explainer: Why do France’s regional elections matter? Look ahead
PARIS (Reuters) - France holds elections this month for all 13 regional authorities on the mainland. For President Emmanuel Macron, the stakes are higher than who will get to build a tram in Brittany ...
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No decision yet on easing restrictions for vaccinated travellers, says UK PM’s spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) - No decision has been made yet on whether to ease travel restrictions for those people who have received two COVID-19 vaccines, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson s...
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Tennis-Nadal pulls out of Wimbledon and Tokyo Olympics to prolong career
(Reuters) -Rafa Nadal pulled out of Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, saying he took the decision after consultations with his team in a bid to prolong his career. The 35-year-old Spaniard...
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Index publisher MSCI looking at launch of crypto indexes
By Aaron Saldanha (Reuters) - Global securities index publisher MSCI is looking at launching indexes for cryptocurrency assets, according to Chief Executive Henry Fernandez, in what would be another s...
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COVID-19 cases surge in Africa, less than 0.8% of fully vaccinated, say officials
NAIROBI (Reuters) - COVID-19 cases rose by over 20% week-on-week in nearly two dozen African countries and progress on vaccinating Africans is proceeding slowly, with just 0.79% of people on the conti...
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JPMorgan buys investment platform Nutmeg in UK retail push
LONDON (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase has bought Britain's biggest digital wealth manager Nutmeg, as the U.S. giant gears up for a big retail expansion push in the UK. Nutmeg - which has more than 140,000 ...
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Italy’s embattled mayors seek shelter from legal bombardment
By Angelo Amante and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Stefania Bonaldi, the mayor of the northern Italian town of Crema, was attending a public ceremony this month when a policeman arrived to inform h...
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