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U.S. adds top Guatemalan, Salvadoran officials to corruption list
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it had put Guatemala's attorney general and five Salvadoran Supreme Court judges on a list of "undemocratic and corrupt" officials, in a sign o...
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U.S. administers 386.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 386,237,881 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Monday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Those figures are u...
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Pianist Beisembayev ‘on cloud nine’ after winning Leeds competition
By Mindy Burrows LONDON (Reuters) - Kazakhstan-born pianist Alim Beisembayev began his musical career when he picked a miniature toy piano for his fifth birthday present. Now aged 23, he has scooped t...
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Vaccine skeptic Bolsonaro gets a pass at U.N. but not New York restaurants
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Unvaccinated heads of state attending the United Nation General Assembly this week may have to settle for a piece of pizza on a sidewalk instead of fine dining at New York's resta...
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White House: apparent use of whips on Haitian migrants not acceptable
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that footage appearing to show border patrol agents using whips against Haitian migrants coming into the United States from Mexico was unacceptabl...
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Prosecutors rest case against R. Kelly after month of testimony
By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Monday rested their sex trafficking case against R. Kelly, after a month of often disturbing and graphic testimony from people who accused th...
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ESPN to launch ‘NBA Today’ on Oct. 18
ESPN will debut "NBA Today," an hour-long panel show, on Oct. 18 -- the day before the start of the 2021-22 season. Malika Andrews will host "NBA Today," joined by network NBA analysts Kendrick Perkin...
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Lebanon’s Mikati says IMF talks a necessity not a choice
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Monday a resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund was a necessity to pull the country out of its financial crisis. Mika...
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U.S. grain exports rise as Gulf terminals slowly recover from Ida
By Julie Ingwersen (Reuters) - U.S. grain exports increased last week as shippers along the Louisiana Gulf Coast recovered from flooding and widespread power outages caused by Hurricane Ida's Aug. 29 ...
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Climbing-Boulder and Speed World Cup in Seoul cancelled due to COVID-19
(Reuters) - Sport climbing's Boulder and Speed World Cup due to be held in Seoul, South Korea from Oct. 1-3 has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Federation of Sport Climb...
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