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September 5, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany wants to talk to the Taliban about how to evacuate its remaining local contract workers from Afghanistan, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday, adding it was a good sign that the airport in Kabul could be used for flights again. The European Union’s foreign policy chief has said […]

September 5, 2021 By Jose Torres HUIXTLA, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican security and migration officials early on Sunday blocked the passage of a new migrant caravan, detaining several people, as the government moved to break up the group just a day after it set off from southern Mexico for the United States. At around 5 […]

September 5, 2021 HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong media group Next Digital Ltd announced on Sunday that it aimed to go into liquidation and its board of directors had resigned to facilitate the process. Next Digital is owned by jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai and was the publisher of Apple Daily, a popular pro-democracy newspaper […]

September 5, 2021 CONAKRY (Reuters) – Soldiers who staged an uprising in Guinea’s capital on Sunday said in a short broadcast on the West African nation’s state television that they have dissolved the constitution and the government in an apparent coup. An unidentified soldier, draped in Guinea’s national flag and surrounded by eight other armed […]

September 5, 2021 By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will allow small foreign tour groups from selective countries to visit from Sept. 19 under a pilot programme to kick-start tourism, the government said on Sunday. Tour groups of between 5 and 30 people from countries on Israel’s green, yellow and orange lists will be […]

September 5, 2021 JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s jailed former president Jacob Zuma has been placed on medical parole because of his ill health, the government’s correctional services department said on Sunday. Last month prison authorities said Zuma underwent unspecified surgery and was in hospital with more operations planned. (Reporting by Nqobile Dludla; Editing by […]

September 5, 2021 By Victoria Waldersee and Nick Carey MUNICH (Reuters) – Germany’s biggest motor show, taking place in Munich this week, is no longer just about cars. This year’s IAA show, the first major motor industry event worldwide since the COVID-19 pandemic, wants to be about mobility in general, from bikes to e-scooters to […]

September 5, 2021 (Reuters) – The Taliban said on Sunday their forces had fought their way into the provincial capital of Panjshir, the valley where opposition forces have been holding out since the fall of Kabul three weeks ago. The police headquarters and district centre of Rukhah, adjacent to the provincial capital Bazarak, had fallen, […]

September 5, 2021 By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) – Heavy gunfire broke out near the presidential palace in Guinea’s capital Conakry on Sunday morning, with several sources saying an elite national army unit led by a former French legionnaire, Mamady Doumbouya, was behind the unrest. A senior government official said 83-year-old President Alpha Conde was […]

September 5, 2021 By Bart H. Meijer ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (Reuters) – Stands filled early at the Zandvoort circuit on Sunday as 70,000 Dutch race fans seemed to expect nothing less than victory for local hero Max Verstappen in the first Dutch grand prix in 36 years. A sea of orange and red-blue-and-white coloured the stands […]

September 5, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will probably decide by the end of the year how much state aid U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla will receive for its planned battery cell factory near Berlin, an economy ministry spokesperson said on Sunday. The European Union in January approved a plan that includes giving state aid […]

September 5, 2021 DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia lowered its light crude oil prices to Asian customers in October versus September, though left prices to northwestern Europe and the United States steady. Oil giant Saudi Aramco lowered the price differential of light crude for delivery to the Far East in October to a premium of […]

September 5, 2021 By Guillermo Martinez and Sergio Perez VILLASECA DE LA SAGRA, SPAIN (Reuters) – Ten bulls charged through the streets of Villaseca de la Sagra on Sunday in pursuit of hundreds of runners as the first bull running fiesta was held in Spain since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Villages and towns […]

September 5, 2021 By Mayank Bhardwaj MUZAFFARNAGAR, India (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of farmers gathered in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, the biggest rally yet in a months-long series of demonstrations to press Narendra Modi’s government to repeal three new agricultural laws. More than 500,000 farmers attended the rally in the […]

September 5, 2021 (Reuters) – Australia’s government should increase its efforts to phase out coal or else climate change will dramatically damage the country’s economy, Selwin Hart, the United Nations special adviser on climate change, said on Sunday. Australia’s reliance on coal-fired power makes it one of the world’s largest carbon emitters per capita, but […]

September 5, 2021 VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Sunday that he was praying that many countries take Afghan refugees and, in an apparent reference to the Taliban’s past restrictions on schooling for women, said it is essential that young Afghans receive an education. “In these moments of upheaval, in which Afghans are […]

September 5, 2021 CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) – Italy plans to move its Afghan embassy to Doha, in Qatar, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Sunday, the latest indication of Western diplomats setting up permanently outside Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover. The announcement follows earlier signals that Western countries and the […]

September 5, 2021 By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Strong late-summer back-to-school sales could provide U.S. retailers some needed momentum after many sector shares lagged the broader market in recent months. The S&P 500 retailing index, which includes Amazon.com Inc , is up just about 2% for the quarter so far, compared with a […]

September 5, 2021 MADRID (Reuters) – Movistar’s Miguel Angel Lopez has apologised for abandoning the Vuelta a Espana during the penultimate stage on Saturday. Lopez, who won stage 18 on Thursday, started the day in third overall and looked set for a spot on the podium on Sunday before being caught out by an attack […]

September 5, 2021 (Reuters) – Bitcoin rose 0.49% to $50,188.4 at 1004 GMT on Sunday, adding $245.24 to its previous close. The world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency is up 81% from this year’s low of $27,734 on Jan. 4. Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, rose 1.16% to $3,932.07 on Sunday, adding […]