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Human towers return to Catalan town as coronavirus ebbs
By Luis Felipe Castilleja VALLS, Spain (Reuters) - Catalonia's traditional festival of human towers returned to the medieval city of Valls in a scaled-down form on Thursday after a 15-month hiatus cau...
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Pelosi announces creation of new committee to probe Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday there will be a new House committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, after Senate Repub...
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UK reports 16,703 new COVID cases, highest since February
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain recorded 16,703 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, marking the highest total since early February, according to government data. There were also 21 deaths reported within 28...
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Commander of Colombia’s ELN armed group stands down due to health
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN) on Thursday said top leader Nicolas Rodriguez will resign his command due to poor health, and named Antonio...
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Soccer-U.S. women’s internationals Press, Heath leave Man Utd
(Reuters) - United States forwards Christen Press and Tobin Heath have left Manchester United after one season with the club, the Women's Super League (WSL) side announced on Thursday. The U.S. intern...
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Tennis-Giorgi knocks out top seed Sabalenka at Eastbourne
(Reuters) - Italian qualifier Camila Giorgi continued her impressive form at the Eastbourne championships by removing top seed Aryna Sabalenka in the quarter-finals on Thursday. Giorgi, a quarter-fina...
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Bulgarian organized-crime police probing 14 illegal kidney transplants
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian organized-crime investigators are probing 14 cases of foreign nationals receiving kidney transplants in violation of law stipulating that donors must be family members, the...
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Aid programs for Yemen will begin closing without increased funding – U.S. envoy
DUBAI (Reuters) - The international community, especially regional countries, must increase funding for humanitarian assistance to Yemen, U.S. Special Envoy to Yemen Timothy Lenderking said on Thursda...
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Oxford researchers say they developed blood test predictor of vaccine efficacy
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Researchers at Oxford University said on Thursday they have developed a method to predict the efficacy of new COVID-19 vaccines based on a blood test, potentiall...
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Deer fawn tagging season underway in Ireland’s largest park
By Clodagh Kilcoyne DUBLIN (Reuters) - Visitors to Dublin's Phoenix Park hoping to catch sight of its fallow deer herd may come across the unusual sight of Laura Griffin and her team walking uniformly...
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