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Olympics-Handball-Perfect record dented as Denmark set up Norway quarter-final
TOKYO (Reuters) - Defending Olympic champions Denmark finished as Group B winners despite crashing to a shock 33-30 loss to Sweden in the men's handball competition at the Yoyogi National Stadium on S...
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UK says ‘highly likely’ Iran attacked tanker off Oman
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Sunday said it believed Iran carried out an attack on an Israeli-managed petroleum product tanker off the coast of Oman on July 29 that killed a Briton and a Romanian, an...
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Three dead in ambush on Shi’ite mourners south of Beirut -Hezbollah source
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Three people were killed on Sunday in an ambush on Shi'ite mourners in a town south of Beirut, a day after a revenge killing of a member of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, a senior sourc...
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Minneapolis Fed president says Delta variant could slow labor market recovery
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari said on Sunday that concerns about the spread of the contagious Delta variant could slow the U.S. labor...
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Motor racing-Ocon takes his first F1 win in Hungary with Alpine
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - French driver Esteban Ocon took his first Formula One victory with Renault-owned Alpine on Sunday in a Hungarian Grand Prix that was stopped and re-started after first lap chaos. ...
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Britain reports 24,470 COVID-19 cases and 65 deaths on Sunday
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain reported 24,470 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, a drop from 26,144 on Saturday, and 65 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, down from 71 on Saturday. The government al...
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Olympics-Athletics-Forza Italia! Jacobs and Tamberi make it a night to remember
By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Lamont Marcell Jacobs became the first men's Olympic 100 metres champion of the post-Usain Bolt era on Sunday as high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi made it a double gol...
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Zoom reaches $85 million settlement of lawsuit over user privacy, ‘Zoombombing’
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications Inc agreed to pay $85 million and bolster its security practices to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated users' privacy rights by sharing per...
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Syrian army steps up offensive in restive southern city
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops stepped up shelling of an opposition enclave in the southern city of Deraa in a bid to assert control over an area that has defied state authorit...
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Olympics-Transgender weightlifter becomes focus of inclusion vs fairness debate
By Martin Petty TOKYO (Reuters) - At 43, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is nearly twice the average age of her Tokyo 2020 competitors. Having shifted 285 kg in qualifying, she is also one of ...
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