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Tanzania stops flights to and from India amid coronavirus surge
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania has suspended flights to and from India amid the COVID-19 surge in the Southeast Asian nation, the country's health ministry said, the latest sign of its increasingly acti...
May 05, 2021
‘It’s my home’: the island activist who forced German climate action
By Stephan Schepers and Tobias Schlie PELLWORM, Germany (Reuters) - If the North Sea island of Pellworm vanishes beneath the waves it will take with it the 300-year-old family farm of Sophie Backsen, ...
May 05, 2021
Olympics: Australia launches ‘game-changing’ year-round winter training centre
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia launched a year-round Winter Olympic training centre in sub-tropical Brisbane on Wednesday which it hopes will give a leading edge to its athletes ahead of the 2022 Bei...
May 05, 2021
Germany, France, Spain reach general agreement over fighter jet: source
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany, France and Spain have reached a general agreement over the next steps in the development of a joint fighter jet, a German defence source said, with details to be hammered o...
May 05, 2021
EU executive slows push for China investment deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission has dialled down efforts to promote its planned investment agreement with China, recognising that EU lawmakers will not approve any such deal while Beijing...
May 05, 2021
Indian G7 delegation self-isolating after two positive COVID tests, UK official says
LONDON (Reuters) - India's entire delegation to a G7 foreign ministers' meeting in London is self isolating after two members tested positive for COVID-19, a British government official said on Wednes...
May 05, 2021
In COVID-hit India, a 26-year-old doctor decides who lives and who dies
By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He doesn't even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor wh...
May 05, 2021
COVID scare at G7 meeting after Indian delegates test positive
By William James and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - India's entire delegation to the Group of Seven summit in London is self-isolating after two of its members tested positive for COVID-19, the British...
May 05, 2021
Taiwan’s Foxconn forms JV with Yageo to make small integrated circuit products
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn on Wednesday announced a joint venture with Yageo Corp to make small integrated circuit (IC) products in a move into the semiconductor industry, which is hit by a s...
May 05, 2021
Nearly 20 million more people hit by food crises in 2020
By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly 20 million more people faced food crises last year amid armed conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and weather extremes, and the outlook for this year is again gr...
May 05, 2021
