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Putin lifts ban on charter flights to Egypt six years after crash
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin scrapped Russia's ban on charter flights to Egypt on Thursday, six years after suspending them for national security seasons in the aftermath of a plane cras...
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Russia pledges help for Tajikistan amid growing Afghan insecurity
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it was ready to help Tajikistan deal with any fallout from the U.S. exit from Afghanistan and that the CSTO military alliance led by Moscow would need to coo...
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Tunisia says health care system collapsing due to COVID-19
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's health care system is collapsing due to the coronavirus, with intensive care departments full and doctors overburdened by a rapid outbreak of cases and deaths, the health m...
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Britain’s Lloyds fined $125 million for misleading insurance customers
LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group has been fined 91 million pounds($125.25 million) for misleading insurance customers over an eight year period, in one of the largest fines levied against a len...
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U.S. to send 500,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses to Uruguay
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will ship 500,000 doses of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine to Uruguay on Thursday, the White House said, amid a wider distribution to Latin American nations this...
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India appoints veteran diplomat as new oil minister
By Nidhi Verma and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Veteran diplomat Hardeep Singh Puri became India's new oil minister on Thursday, an appointment welcomed by energy experts who expect him to st...
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Beyond Meat brings back alt-meat chicken offering with launch of tenders
(Reuters) -Beyond Meat Inc brought back a chicken offering to its product portfolio with the launch of plant-based chicken tenders on Thursday as the faux-meat maker looks to capitalize on booming dem...
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Olympics-For Tokyo 2020 ticketholders, an Olympic dream gets dashed
By Sakura Murakami and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Even as several events in the run-up to the Olympics were cancelled and the number of domestic spectators capped, Ryuichi Ishikawa had clung to hop...
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Factbox-Olympics-Money, money, money: the cost of Tokyo’s pandemic-delayed Games
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Despite public opposition in Japan over fears of new coronavirus surges, the Tokyo Olympic Games that were postponed last year will get under way on July 23, with spec...
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Factbox-From triumph of 1964 Olympics to COVID: Japan then and now
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan hoped holding the 2020 Olympics would reprise the triumph of 1964, when it became the first Asian host of the Games and gained a huge economic boost, but the cor...
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