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Migrants’ unpaid hospital bills a barrier to birth certificates in UAE
By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) - Philippine national Maya and her husband lost their low-paying jobs in the United Arab Emirates early in the coronavirus pandemic, and with it their work visas and...
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Pakistani forces clash with Afghan protesters at border crossing shut by Taliban
By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani forces clashed on Thursday with hundreds of Afghans stranded on Pakistan's side of a commercially vital border crossing with Afghanistan after i...
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Olympics-Jamaican Parchment tracks down volunteer who helped him win gold
(Reuters) - Olympic champion Hansle Parchment has tracked down a volunteer who rescued his gold medal hopes by giving him money for a taxi after a transportation mix-up meant he was dropped off at the...
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U.S. Embassy in Kabul urges U.S. citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday urged U.S. citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately using available commercial flight options, a notice on the website of U.S. Embassy in Kabul sa...
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Waist-deep flood hits Cameroon’s commercial capital after torrential rains
DOUALA (Reuters) - Residents of several neighbourhoods in Cameroon's commercial capital Douala woke up to waist-deep flood water on Thursday after torrential rains battered the city for over 24 hours....
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Fed minutes, flagging Chinese recovery, NZ rate hike
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve minutes, an expected New Zealand rate hike and the latest easing of self-isolation rules in Britain - here's a quick look ahead to next week's top economic even...
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Exclusive-Ex-director seeks to stall $2 billion Paytm IPO, company calls it harassment
By Aditya Kalra and Abhirup Roy NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Paytm's $2.2 billion IPO is facing an unusual hurdle - a 71-year-old former director has urged India's markets regulator to stall the offering, al...
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French, Belgian units rescue migrant boat sinking in the Channel
PARIS (Reuters) - A group of around 40 migrants was rescued on Thursday by French and Belgian air and sea units, alongside two fishing boats, after the dinghy in which they tried to reach Britain star...
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Fear and hope on Libya’s reopened highway
By Ayman al-Warfali SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - The green bus rumbling from Benghazi to Tripoli this week was the first to traverse the main highway between Libya's two biggest cities in years - the dela...
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Argentina’s Laboratorios Richmond supplies 1st batch of Russian vaccine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Argentina's Laboratorios Richmond has delivered 995,125 doses of the first component of the Sputnik V vaccine produced in Argentina to the country's health ministry, the company sai...
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