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More than 70 dead after boat sinks in Nigeria
By Ardo Hazzad BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities have recovered the bodies of more than 70 people after an overloaded boat capsized in the northwestern state of Kebbi on Wednesday, a st...
May 28, 2021
Three positives in latest round of MLB COVID-19 testing
One major league player was among the three positive COVID-19 cases in the weekly test results released Friday by Major League Baseball and the Players Association. One Triple-A player and one staff m...
May 28, 2021
Lebanon’s Hezbollah congratulates Syria’s Assad on election victory – statement
(Corrects majority in para 3 to 95.1%, not 91.1%) BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah on Friday congratulated Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on winning a fourth term in office, it said in a stat...
May 28, 2021
Knicks to sell playoff tickets exclusively to fully vaccinated fans
The New York Knicks announced Friday that tickets for games at Madison Square Garden will be sold exclusively to fully vaccinated fans should the team advance past the Atlanta Hawks. The Knicks also a...
May 28, 2021
EMA logs more clotting cases after AstraZeneca shot, death rate lower
(Reuters) - A total of 316 cases of rare blood clots with low platelets have been recorded in adults who received AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in the European Economic Area, an executive of the regi...
May 28, 2021
FDA approves Amgen drug for lung cancer with specific mutation
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an Amgen Inc drug for non-small cell lung cancer with a specific mutation in a gene known as KRAS in patients whos...
May 28, 2021
Free agent RB Le’Veon Bell insists he’ll play in 2021
Free agent running back Le'Veon Bell says he is waiting to sign with the right team that will utilize his talents. "i'll sign somewhere when IM ready...ain't no more finessing me with lies and (explet...
May 28, 2021
White House projects U.S. GDP growth to drop to 1.8% a year by mid-2020s -New York Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy will slow markedly after its initial bounce back from a pandemic-induced swoon, according to White House projections as reported by the New York Times. The Time...
May 28, 2021
Israeli troops kill Palestinian during West Bank clash, Palestinians say
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian during clashes in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. A few hundred Palestinians had ga...
May 28, 2021
G7 calls for democratic nations to support world trade system reform
LONDON (Reuters) -Trade ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy nations called for democratic countries to rally behind reforms of the current world trading system, and together they criticised...
May 28, 2021
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