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Australia’s New South Wales reports biggest daily rise in COVID-19 cases for 2021
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), on Thursday reported its biggest daily rise in locally acquired cases of COVID-19 for the year so far, as total infections in...
Jul 07, 2021
South Korea reports highest ever daily rise in COVID-19 cases
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea on Thursday reported its highest ever one-day number of new COVID-19 infections, as officials consider tightening social distancing restrictions. The 1,275 c...
Jul 07, 2021
Baseball-Ohtani breaks Matsui’s record for home runs by a Japanese player
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Angels dual-threat Shohei Ohtani hit his major-league leading 32nd home run of the season on Wednesday, breaking Hideki Matsui's record for long balls in a single s...
Jul 07, 2021
Japan’s bank lending rise at slowest pace in 8 years as COVID-19 hit subsides
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese bank lending rose at its slowest annual pace in more than eight years in June as corporate fund demand to weather coronavirus-linked cash constraints subside...
Jul 07, 2021
Japan set to declare state of emergency for Tokyo area through Aug 22: minister
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government is set to declare a state of emergency for the Tokyo area through August 22 amid a new wave of infections, a government minister said on Thursday, casting a shadow...
Jul 07, 2021
Musk’s Boring Company bids to build transit tunnel in Florida
BERKELEY, California (Reuters) - Elon Musk's tunneling enterprise, Boring Company, has submitted a bid to build an underground transit system between downtown and the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida...
Jul 07, 2021
Key party in Malaysia alliance withdraws support from PM Muhyiddin
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's biggest political party and key ally in the ruling coalition withdrew support for Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin late on Wednesday and called on him to resign for ...
Jul 07, 2021
Haiti may slip deeper into lawlessness after president’s killing
(Reuters) - Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead overnight on Wednesday, stoking fears of deepening chaos in an impoverished Caribbean nation already reeling from rampant gang violence and fa...
Jul 07, 2021
UK’s post-lockdown hiring boom hits record pace – REC
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's post-lockdown hiring boom roared on in June as employers signed up the most permanent staff since at least the late 1990s and a shortage of candidates hit unprecedented le...
Jul 07, 2021
Rocket attack targets U.S. embassy inside Baghdad’s Green Zone -Iraqi security sources
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two rockets were fired at the U.S. embassy inside Baghdad's Greene Zone early on Thursday, Iraqi security sources told Reuters. The embassy's anti-rocket system diverted one of the...
Jul 07, 2021
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