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Houston will pay $100 to anyone receiving first COVID vaccine dose
(Reuters) - Anybody who receives the first dose of a COVID vaccine before the end of August in the county that encompasses Houston will receive $100, the county's top elected official said on Tuesday....
Aug 17, 2021
Exclusive: India likely to withdraw sugar export subsidies from new season
By Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is expected to withdraw sugar export subsidies from the new season beginning October as a sharp rise in global prices makes it easier...
Aug 17, 2021
Exclusive: India starts selling oil from strategic reserves after policy shift
By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has begun selling oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to state-run refiners as it implements a new policy to commercialise its federal storage by ...
Aug 17, 2021
EU: we’ll have to talk to the Taliban even if we don’t recognise them
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will have to engage with the Taliban to provide support to the Afghan people even if it does not recognise them as legitimate rulers of the country, the bloc's ...
Aug 17, 2021
Megan Rapinoe will ‘take time’ to think about future
U.S. Women's National Team mainstay Megan Rapinoe said Tuesday that she's going to "take some time to think about" her playing future. Rapinoe, 36, made the comments during an interview on an ESPN mor...
Aug 17, 2021
YouTube says it bans accounts believed to be owned by the Taliban
(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's YouTube said on Tuesday it bans accounts that are believed to be owned and operated by the Taliban, as U.S. social media companies scrambled to clarify their rules on the gr...
Aug 17, 2021
Athletics-‘I don’t know my limits’ – Duplantis aiming high after Olympic gold
By Sophie Penney UPPSALA, Sweden (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 pole vault champion Armand Duplantis said he does not know his limits and wants to break his own world record several times over in the near fut...
Aug 17, 2021
Belarus officers illegally crossed into Lithuania while pushing in migrants, Lithuania says
VILNIUS (Reuters) - A dozen Belarusian officers in riot gear entered Lithuanian territory on Tuesday while pushing in a group of 35 Iraqi migrants, the Lithuanian border guard service said. "The offic...
Aug 17, 2021
Ontario to offer third COVID-19 vaccine doses to high risk people
(Reuters) - The Canadian province of Ontario will begin offering third COVID-19 vaccine doses to vulnerable people as early as this week, its chief medical officer said on Tuesday. Eligible population...
Aug 17, 2021
Guilty plea possible from El Salvador ex-soccer chief in FIFA corruption probe
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former president of El Salvador's soccer federation may enter a guilty plea next Monday over his alleged role in a sprawling corruption probe surrounding F...
Aug 17, 2021
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