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Philippines lifts ban on workers deploying to Saudi Arabia 29 May 2021 - 12:19 pm
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Chinese city locks down neighborhood after virus upsurge 29 May 2021 - 10:41 am
People line up to test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site on Haizhu Square in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China May 27, 2021. cnsphoto via Reuters
European regulators OK Pfizer vaccine for children 12-15 29 May 2021 - 09:24 am
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Vietnam detects hybrid of Covid-19 variants found in India and UK 29 May 2021 - 09:24 am
File photo: A health worker labels a test-sample tube during the coronavirus outbreak in Hanoi, Vietnam, January 29, 2021. Reuters/Kham/File Photo
US announces sanctions on Belarus over journalist’s detention 29 May 2021 - 08:57 am
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, US, May 25, 2021. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque ?
Biden's $6 trillion budget: Social spending, taxes on business 28 May 2021 - 09:44 pm
US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden deplane Air Force One at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, US on May 28, 2021. (Reuters/Ken Cedeno)
Croatia to buy 12 French Rafale fighters for $1.2 billion 28 May 2021 - 05:37 pm
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Malaysia PM orders 'total lockdown' amid COVID-19 surge 28 May 2021 - 05:13 pm
File photo : General view of a deserted street during a lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng/File Photo
Italy to open up Covid shots to all adults from June 3 28 May 2021 - 05:07 pm
File photo: Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Porto, Portugal May 8, 2021. Francisco Seco/Pool via Reuters/File Photo
Erdogan inaugurates landmark mosque on main Istanbul square 28 May 2021 - 04:49 pm
Newly built Taksim Mosque is seen at Taksim Square shortly before its inauguration in central Istanbul, Turkey May 28, 2021. Reuters/Dilara Senkaya
US Senate slow to act on probe into deadly Capitol attack 28 May 2021 - 04:35 pm
File photo: US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on tackling climate change prior to signing executive actions in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Germany offers $1.3 billion to Namibia to atone for genocide 28 May 2021 - 04:11 pm
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas gives a news conference in Berlin, Germany May 28, 2021 after Germany recognised for the first time that it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation and agreed to fund projects worth over a billio
Sweden scraps demand for negative COVID-test for travelers from the Nordics 28 May 2021 - 04:01 pm
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Nationwide strike planned in Belarus, opposition leader says 28 May 2021 - 03:44 pm
Belarusian opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya meets Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Foreign Affairs Minister Sigrid Kaag to discuss forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk and the arrest of a dissident Belarusian journalist on board, in Th
Shoot-out after policewoman stabbed in attack in western France 28 May 2021 - 03:33 pm
A French gendarme secures the area after an assailant stabbed and badly wounded a policewoman in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, western France, May 28, 2021. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Around 400,000 people need help after fleeing Congo volcano, UN says 28 May 2021 - 03:26 pm
A woman prepares to evacuate from recurrent earth tremors as aftershocks after homes were covered with lava deposited by the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo near Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo May 25, 2021. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/Save the Childr
Australia's Victoria state sees fewer new COVID-19 cases on first day of lockdown 28 May 2021 - 03:21 pm
FILE PHOTO: People are silhouetted against the SYDNEY Opera House at sunset in Australia, November 2, 2016. REUTERS/Steven Saphore/File Photo
Britain approves J&J COVID-19 vaccine for use 28 May 2021 - 02:47 pm
A vial of the Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen / REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton