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Meet Grace, the healthcare robot COVID-19 created
By Joyce Zhou HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Hong Kong team behind celebrity humanoid robot Sophia is launching a new prototype, Grace, targeted at the healthcare market and designed to interact with the e...
Syndicated Content Jun 08, 2021
Singapore’s death toll from COVID-19 tops casualties in SARS outbreak
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has reported its 34th death due to COVID-19, taking its toll from the pandemic beyond the 33 casualties recorded during the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS...
Syndicated Content Jun 08, 2021
Factbox-Vaccines donated by the United States and China
(Reuters) - Both the United States and China have pledged large donations of COVID-19 vaccines to countries around the world. Washington has promised 80 million doses, three-quarters of which will be ...
Syndicated Content Jun 08, 2021
SoftBank-backed Doordash enters Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. food delivery firm DoorDash Inc, which is backed by SoftBank Group Corp, announced the launch of services in Japan on Wednesday, joining an increasingly crowded market that has ...
Syndicated Content Jun 08, 2021
Soccer-Brazil players criticise handling of Copa America switch
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian soccer team criticised the last-minute decision to switch the Copa America to Brazil from Argentina amid a surge in novel coronavirus infections but said they would ...
Syndicated Content Jun 08, 2021
India records 92,596 new COVID-19 cases over past 24 hours
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India on Wednesday reported 92,596 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, and 2,219 deaths from the coronavirus. The country's total COVID-19 case load now stands at 29....
Syndicated Content Jun 08, 2021
Leading crypto exchanges scout entry into India despite potential ban
By Nupur Anand MUMBAI (Reuters) - Global digital currency exchanges are exploring ways to set up in India, following in the footsteps of market leader Binance, industry sources told Reuters, while the...
Syndicated Content Jun 08, 2021
Smart devices get pandemic boost in U.S. households -Deloitte survey
(Reuters) - The pandemic has bolstered the use of gadgets in an average U.S. household to 25 connected devices, up from 11 in 2019, including laptops, smartphones, streaming devices, smart TVs, headph...
Syndicated Content Jun 08, 2021
S.Korea’s land speculation scandal roils Moon’s party
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's ruling Democratic Party said on Wednesday it was trying to regain public trust by asking 12 lawmakers to leave the party over a property scandal that ha...
Syndicated Content Jun 08, 2021

PPD nabs suspected murderer of missing man
PEORIA, Ill. — A man was taken Tuesday into Peoria Police custody on two counts related to murder of a man who’d been missing since early March. 32-year-old Gabriel Cook was reported to th...
Jeremy Scott Jun 08, 2021
Peoria, IL, USA
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