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US federal judge blocks new applications to DACA programme

US federal judge blocks new applications to DACA programme

REUTERS 2021-07-17 09:53:15

A US federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked new applications to a programme that protects immigrants who were brought to the United States as children from deportation but said the hundreds of thous...

World leaders pledge to redouble pandemic fight at special APEC meeting

World leaders pledge to redouble pandemic fight at special APEC meeting

REUTERS 2021-07-16 23:06:58

Leaders of the Asia-Pacific trade group APEC, including US President Joe Biden, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and China's Xi Jinping, pledged on Friday to work to expand sharing and manufacturing of COVID-...

Over 110 dead, 1,000 missing in flood-stricken Germany and Belgium

Over 110 dead, 1,000 missing in flood-stricken Germany and Belgium

-- 2021-07-16 20:24:32

More than 1,000 people were missing in flood-stricken regions of western Germany and Belgium on Friday, where waters were still rising with the death toll already well over 100 and communications in s...

Eiffel Tower reopens after eight-month COVID closure

Eiffel Tower reopens after eight-month COVID closure

REUTERS 2021-07-16 19:20:06

The Eiffel Tower reopened on Friday after an eight-month shutdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, its longest closure since World War Two. As a countdown clock at the foot of the tower turned to ze...

Russian plane carrying 17 passengers goes missing in Siberia

Russian plane carrying 17 passengers goes missing in Siberia

REUTERS 2021-07-16 18:36:17

A Russian Antonov An-28 passenger plane carrying up to 17 people disappeared from radars on Friday while flying over the Siberian region of Tomsk, local officials said, the second such incident this m...

India orders 660m vaccine doses amidst warnings over shortages

India orders 660m vaccine doses amidst warnings over shortages

Reuters 2021-07-16 17:04:45

The Indian government has ordered 660 million vaccine doses for August-December, its largest procurement, local news reports said on Friday, as state authorities and health experts warned that shortag...

Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui killed in clashes in Afghanistan

Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui killed in clashes in Afghanistan

-- 2021-07-16 14:33:21

Danish Siddiqui, a chief photographer of Reuters who was based in Mumbai, was killed in the violence in Afghanistan, according to Indian and Afghan media outlets. Afghanistan's Tolo News reported tha...

Women’s groups call for UN force in Afghanistan

Women’s groups call for UN force in Afghanistan

-- 2021-07-16 13:47:01

Women’s rights supporters and faith leaders are calling for a United Nations peacekeeping force for Afghanistan to protect hard-won gains for women over the last two decades as American and NATO...

White House slams Facebook 'for not doing enough to tackle Covid misinformation'

White House slams Facebook 'for not doing enough to tackle Covid misinformation'

Reuters 2021-07-16 13:08:54

Facebook is not doing enough to stop the spread of false claims about Covid-19 and vaccines, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday, part of a new administration pushback on misinforma...

Pakistan to bring cryptocurrency boom out of the dark

Pakistan to bring cryptocurrency boom out of the dark

REUTERS 2021-07-16 12:47:28

Once a week Ghulam Ahmed, 38, takes time out from his cryptocurrency consulting business to log into a WhatsApp group with hundreds of members eager to learn how to mine and trade cryptocurrency in Pa...

Afghan gov’t says it retook border crossing, Taliban denies

Afghan gov’t says it retook border crossing, Taliban denies

-- 2021-07-16 11:14:43

Afghan security forces have retaken control of a major southern border crossing with Pakistan that the Taliban briefly captured, a senior Afghan government official says, but the Taliban dismisses tha...

At least 44 dead, dozens missing in Western Europe floods

At least 44 dead, dozens missing in Western Europe floods

REUTERS 2021-07-16 08:27:41

At least 42 people have died in Germany and dozens were missing on Thursday as swollen rivers caused by record rainfall across western Europe swept through towns and villages, leaving cars upended, ho...

At least 44 dead in floods in western Europe, dozens missing

At least 44 dead in floods in western Europe, dozens missing

REUTERS   2021-07-15 20:25:59

At least 42 people have died in Germany and dozens were missing on Thursday as record rainfall in western Europe caused rivers to burst their banks, swept away homes and flooded cellars. Eighteen peo...

Dutch crime reporter De Vries dies after being shot

Dutch crime reporter De Vries dies after being shot

REUTERS 2021-07-15 20:11:55

Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R De Vries has died just over a week after being shot in the street, his family and his employer RTL Netherlands news said on Thursday. De Vries, who was 64, had...

EU court says headscarves can be banned at work under certain conditions

EU court says headscarves can be banned at work under certain conditions

-- 2021-07-15 16:34:57

Companies may ban Muslim employees from wearing a headscarf under certain conditions, the European Union's top court said on Thursday in a ruling on two cases brought by women in Germany who were susp...

Indonesia bracing for worsening Covid outbreak

Indonesia bracing for worsening Covid outbreak

Reuters 2021-07-15 13:17:26

Indonesia is bracing for its Covid-19 outbreak to get worse after a near vertical climb in cases, a senior minister said on Thursday, warning that infections had spread faster than anticipated due to...

Global coronavirus cases top 188 million

Global coronavirus cases top 188 million

-- 2021-07-15 10:14:38

The global Covid-19 caseload has now surpassed 188 million, with the world still struggling to contain the second wave of the pandemic. The total caseload and fatalities from the virus stand at 188,2...

US Senate passes bill to ban import of products from China's Xinjiang

US Senate passes bill to ban import of products from China's Xinjiang

-- 2021-07-15 09:54:00

The US Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to ban the import of products from China's Xinjiang region, the latest effort in Washington to punish Beijing for what US officials say is an ongoing geno...

Facebook wants Lina Khan's recusal in antitrust case

Facebook wants Lina Khan's recusal in antitrust case

-- 2021-07-15 08:54:53

Facebook on Wednesday asked for the recusal of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan from the FTC's antitrust case against the company, a step that could imperil the agency's lawsuit against it....

Nearly 3,000 confined to cabins after COVID-19 case on Singapore cruise

Nearly 3,000 confined to cabins after COVID-19 case on Singapore cruise

-- 2021-07-14 18:52:39

A Genting Cruise Lines ship on a "cruise to nowhere" has returned to Singapore after a confirmed case of COVID-19 in a passenger, and the nearly 3,000 passengers and crew on board were confined to the...

Taliban claims to control key Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Taliban claims to control key Afghanistan-Pakistan border

-- 2021-07-14 14:40:01

Taliban fighters on Wednesday said they have gained control over an important trade route linking Pakistan with southern Afghanistan, hours after Afghan forces surrendered the critical transit point t...

S Korea extends Covid restrictions far and wide as new cases spike to record

S Korea extends Covid restrictions far and wide as new cases spike to record

Reuters 2021-07-14 13:34:34

South Korea tightened social distancing rules across most of the country on Wednesday to tackle its worst-ever outbreak of coronavirus a day after new cases soared to a new daily peak of 1,615. The l...

Six Chinese nationals among eight killed in Pakistan bus blast

Six Chinese nationals among eight killed in Pakistan bus blast

-- 2021-07-14 13:25:26

At least eight people, including at least six Chinese nationals and one Pakistani soldier, were killed in a blast targeting a bus in a remote region of northern Pakistan on Wednesday. It was not imme...

US urges Southeast Asian nations to take action on Myanmar

US urges Southeast Asian nations to take action on Myanmar

-- 2021-07-14 13:11:31

The United States has "deep concerns" about the military coup in Myanmar and called on Southeast Asian nations to take action to end violence and restore democracy in the country, Secretary of State A...

Boats full of vaccines bring hope to India's Sundarbans

Boats full of vaccines bring hope to India's Sundarbans

Reuters 2021-07-14 12:34:03

For Deepak Jena, a labourer on a remote island in the Sundarbans delta in India, getting a Covid-19 vaccine was proving to be difficult. Then a government boat arrived with vaccines. Home to more tha...

Australia extends Sydney lockdown as Covid situation worsens

Australia extends Sydney lockdown as Covid situation worsens

Reuters 2021-07-14 10:52:42

Australian authorities extended a lockdown in Sydney on Wednesday by at least 14 days, after three weeks of initial restrictions failed to stamp out an outbreak of Covid-19 in the country's largest ci...

South Africa faces worst violence in years, dozens reported killed

South Africa faces worst violence in years, dozens reported killed

REUTERS 2021-07-13 21:04:40

Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or burned shopping malls in South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens reported killed as grievances unleashed by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma boiled o...

Liberal Deuba becomes PM as Nepal struggles with COVID

Liberal Deuba becomes PM as Nepal struggles with COVID

Reuters 2021-07-13 19:31:55

Nepal’s president appointed veteran liberal Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister on Tuesday, the president's office said, a day after the Supreme Court reinstated the parliament that was dissolv...

Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes PM of Nepal

Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes PM of Nepal

REUTERS 2021-07-13 17:57:11

Nepal’s president-appointed veteran liberal Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister on Tuesday, the president's office said, a day after the Supreme Court reinstated the parliament that was dissolv...

France fines Google 500m euros over copyright row

France fines Google 500m euros over copyright row

REUTERS 2021-07-13 17:31:18

France's antitrust watchdog slapped a 500-million-euro ($593 million) fine on Alphabet's Google on Tuesday for failing to comply fully with temporary orders the regulator had given in a row with the c...