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Desperate expatriate workers storm Islamabad vaccination centre
By Umar Farooq ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani expatriate workers, desperate to obtain a Pfizer/BioNTech or AstraZeneca COVID shot so they can travel to work in Saudi Arabia, stormed a vaccination cen...
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Samsung unveils new smartwatch interface
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Monday unveiled its new smartwatch interface at the Mobile World conference, for the operating system it co-developed with Alphabet Inc's Google. Th...
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Tennis-Wimbledon day one
LONDON (Reuters) - Highlights of day one of the Wimbledon tennis championships on Monday (all times GMT): 1819 SWIATEK PASSES HSIEH TEST Seventh seed Iga Swiatek of Poland overpowered Taiwan's Hsieh S...
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Tennis-Swiatek swats aside Hsieh to make strong start at Wimbledon
LONDON (Reuters) - World number nine Iga Swiatek made a convincing start to her Wimbledon campaign on Monday with a 6-4 6-4 win over the tricky Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan for her first main draw victory i...
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COVID-19 bubble makes it really tiring, says beaten Tsitsipas
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Beaten third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas spoke of the challenge of living in a COVID-19 'bubble' and lost motivation as the Greek made a shock early exit from the Wimble...
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Argentina’s Fernandez cancels France trip over COVID-19, Delta fears
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez has canceled a visit to France scheduled for this week amid fears over the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant and the elevated number...
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Philippines’ Duterte challenges Pacquiao to expose corruption
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday that Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao should name corrupt government offices to prove that the boxer-turned-lawmaker is not just politi...
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Nigeria adds South Africa to its COVID-19 ‘red list’ for arriving travellers
ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria is adding South Africa to its "red list" of countries for which there are stringent restrictions for arriving passengers, officials said during a briefing on Monday. Nigeria i...
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UNICEF accuses Ethiopian troops of targeting its Tigray office
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.N. children's agency on Monday accused Ethiopian government troops of dismantling satellite equipment in UNICEF's office in the country's Tigray region a...
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Colombia says to get 2.5 million Janssen COVID shot donation from U.S
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia said on Monday it will receive a U.S. donation of 2.5 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Janssen, the pharmaceutical unit of Johnson & Johnson. The Colom...
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