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Tennis-Question marks over Osaka’s Wimbledon participation, says Bartoli
PARIS (Reuters) - Former Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli says there are big question marks about whether or not Naomi Osaka will play at the grasscourt championships this year after her withdrawal f...
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Doping-Olympic hurdles champion McNeal handed five-year ban for anti-doping rule violation
(Reuters) - American Olympic 100 metres hurdles champion Brianna McNeal has been banned for five years for an anti-doping rule violation, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday. McNeal, who...
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Shanghai to hold lottery for ‘red packets’ of digital yuan
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's financial hub Shanghai will hold a lottery over the weekend giving residents the chance to win electronic "red packets" worth nearly 20 million yuan ($3 million) combined,...
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Nord Stream 2 to be completed as United States wants good ties with EU, Putin says
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany should be completed as new U.S. administration wants good relations with Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin told ...
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Beyond Meat names Amazon VP as CFO
(Reuters) - Beyond Meat Inc on Friday named Amazon.com Inc Vice President Phil Hardin as its chief financial officer. Hardin will join the plant based meat maker in July 2021. (Reporting by Nivedita B...
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Global airline body blasts EU safety regulator over Belarus ban
PARIS (Reuters) - Global airline industry body IATA on Friday criticised a decision by European air safety regulators to ban overflights of Belarus amid outrage over its interception of a Ryanair jet,...
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With nearly 80,000 dead, Argentines struggle under weight of COVID-19
By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - For lawyer Lidia Alverisi, Argentina's COVID-19 pandemic has taken an almost unbearable toll. "We have all lost someone, someone we knew well," she told Re...
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Mexico to apply U.S.-supplied J&J shots to 18-40 year olds along border
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots it is getting from the United States to 18 to 40 year olds along the Mexico-U.S. border region with the aim of reopen...
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CDU overtakes AfD ahead of Saxony-Anhalt election – INSA poll
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have edged ahead of the right-wing AfD party ahead of Sunday's regional elections in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, a poll showed on Fri...
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Sweden’s Left Party threatens to topple govt over rent reform
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's centrist government came under threat on Friday after the Left Party vowed to bring it down over the prospective abolition of rent controls on new residential housing. T...
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