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Japanese Emperor says virus prevention at Olympics ‘far from easy task’
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Emperor Naruhito on Thursday acknowledged the difficulty of preventing the spread of coronavirus during the Olympics, at a meeting with International Olympic Committee offici...
Jul 22, 2021
Coastal erosion threatens Senegal’s rock climbing clique
By Cooper Inveen and Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) - Dangling from umber cliffs that tower over Africa's westernmost shoreline, a crew of Senegalese climbers hunt for footholds that they say are vanish...
Jul 22, 2021
IOC’s Bach tells Japan emperor organisers ‘doing utmost’ not to bring infections
TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of the International Olympic Committee met with Japan's Emperor Naruhito on Thursday and assured him that organisers were doing their utmost not to bring infections into the...
Jul 22, 2021
Volkswagen expects China EV sales to soar in H2
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen expects sales of its ID series of electric vehicles in China -- the world's largest car market -- to pick up significantly in the second half of the year, Chief Execut...
Jul 22, 2021
Olympics-Gymnastics-How gold can she go? Biles shines in training amid virus worries
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Defending Olympic all-around champion Simone Biles shone in training on Thursday in a series of sharp routines that included a vault so difficult that no other woman h...
Jul 22, 2021
Gamma coronavirus variant detected in Russia, Ifax reports
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Gamma variant of the novel coronavirus, first found in Brazil, has been detected in small quantities in Russia, the Interfax news agency cited the developer behind Russia's EpiV...
Jul 22, 2021
Flush from Reddit rally, GameStop plots store revival
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Jessica DiNapoli and Krystal Hu (Reuters) - When GameStop Corp shares surged by more than 2,500% in January, some customers joked to store staff they should thank the investors...
Jul 22, 2021
U.S. Justice Department to launch new crackdown on firearms trafficking
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department this week is formally launching a new effort to crack down on firearms trafficking, in a strategy that involves the creation of fiv...
Jul 22, 2021
French government blames Orange’s slow crisis management of its network outage
PARIS (Reuters) - Orange, France's biggest telecoms firm, failed to swiftly alert the country's authorities about the extent of the network outage that affected calls to emergency services for several...
Jul 22, 2021
Olympics-Swimming-U.S. comfortable with swimmer’s compliance after vaccine opt-out
By Martin Petty TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. Olympic swimming gold medal prospect who declined a coronavirus vaccine has been strictly complying with health protocols while in Japan, as part of a team tha...
Jul 22, 2021
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