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Chinese national shot and wounded in Pakistan’s Karachi
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Chinese national was shot and wounded in an attack in Pakistan's largest city Karachi on Wednesday, police said, two weeks after nine Chinese workers were killed when a...
Jul 28, 2021
Road, railway linking Djibouti to Addis Ababa is blocked – Ethiopian official
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -The president of Ethiopia's Somali region said on Wednesday a vital road and rail trade artery linking the landlocked capital of Addis Ababa to the sea port of Djibouti was bloc...
Jul 28, 2021
Japanese automaker Nissan posts surprise Q1 profit, raises full-year forecast
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co on Wednesday raised its earnings outlook for the year, helped by a weaker yen and favourable demand in the United States, after reporting a surprise...
Jul 28, 2021
Olympics-Judo-Japan’s Arai shines with eyes on women’s -70 kg gold in Tokyo
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's double world champion judoka Chizuru Arai advanced into the semi-finals of the Olympic competition by pinning German Giovanna Scoccimarro for a solid ippon 10-0 victory in th...
Jul 28, 2021
Exclusive: Walmart’s Flipkart asks India’s top court to stall antitrust queries, probe
By Aditya Kalra and Abhirup Roy NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Walmart-owned Flipkart has asked India's Supreme Court to restrain the country's antitrust body after it asked sensitive questions in what the fir...
Jul 28, 2021
CanSinoBIO’s inhaled COVID vaccine candidate triggers immune response-early trial
(Refile to fix company name to CanSino Biologics, not BioLogics) BEIJING (Reuters) - An inhaled version of CanSino Biologics' (CanSinoBIO) COVID-19 vaccine triggered immune responses without serious s...
Jul 28, 2021
Russia says ISIS fighters moving into Afghanistan from several countries -Ifax
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters are moving into Afghanistan from Syria, Libya and several other countries, the Interfax news agency cited Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying on ...
Jul 28, 2021
Head of Russian investigative news outlet says police are searching his home
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Roman Dobrokhotov, editor-in-chief of investigative media outlet The Insider, said on Wednesday that Russian police were searching his apartment, a move allies said looked like part...
Jul 28, 2021
U.S. envoy back in Gulf to push Yemen truce as battles spread
DUBAI (Reuters) - Senior U.S. diplomats are holding talks in the Gulf region in a renewed push for a ceasefire in Yemen as fierce ground battles spread and the Iran-aligned Houthi group resumed cross-...
Jul 28, 2021
Olympics-Swimming-Time catches up with Pellegrini and Hosszu
By Simon Evans TOKYO (Reuters) - Two of the defining women swimmers of recent years, Italy's Federica Pellegrini and Hungary's Katinka Hosszu, bowed out of the Olympics on Wednesday with no medals but...
Jul 28, 2021
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