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One soldier killed in attack in northern Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - One soldier was killed on Monday evening when armed men attacked the northern Ivory Coast town of Tougbo, near the border with Burkina Faso, the army said on Tuesday. Ivorian troop...
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‘Excited’ Polish zoo unveils rare Siberian tiger cubs
WARSAW (Reuters) - Staff at the zoo in the Polish town of Plock first noticed the sound, not the sight, of two Siberian tiger cubs born in late April, keeper Malgorzata Trzcinska said, introducing the...
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Israel plans to shut major industrial zone in Haifa and go green
By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is looking to shut a major industrial zone in the coastal city of Haifa that health officials say has been hazardous for years and turn it into an ecofr...
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Head of Austrian state holdings group, stung by texts with Kurz, quits
By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of Austrian state holdings group OBAG, Thomas Schmid, stepped down on Tuesday as prosecutors investigate whether Chancellor Sebastian Kurz perjured himse...
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China pushes new candidate towards top of Huarong Asset Management
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's banking watchdog named Liang Qiang, an asset management veteran, to the senior post of deputy communist party boss at China Huarong Asset Management Co, the state-run firm ...
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Kuwait approves Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine
DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwait has approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson, the state-news agency KUNA reported on Tuesday. It is the fourth vaccine approved by Kuwait after those of Pf...
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Exclusive: China tells PetroChina to stop trading off oil quotas with teapots
By Chen Aizhu SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have ordered a unit of state-run PetroChina to stop trading off crude oil import quotas with local refineries as part of a crackdown on excessiv...
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The candidate and her hijab: identity matters in French elections
By Elizabeth Pineau MONTPELLIER, France (Reuters) - Laboratory technician Sara Zemmahi was running to be a local councillor backed by President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party until last month when it ...
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Hong Kong to test linking China’s digital yuan with domestic payments
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong is to test connecting China's digital yuan with its domestic payments network, officials said on Tuesday, the second stage of experiments of China's digital currency in...
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Turkey offers to run Kabul airport after NATO’s Afghan withdrawal: officials
By Orhan Coskun and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has offered to guard and run Kabul's airport after the United States and other NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan, but U.S. officials sa...
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