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Olympics-Mills and Campbell named Australia’s flag bearers for Tokyo Games
(Reuters) - Basketball player Patty Mills will become the first Indigenous Australian to carry the country's flag at the opening...
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Suga’s LDP falls short in Tokyo election as he presses on with Olympics amid pandemic
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and allies failed...
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Germany signals quarantine relaxations after meeting UK PM Johnson
By William James and Thomas Escritt LONDON (Reuters) -German Chancellor Angela Merkel signalled a relaxation of quarantine rules for fully-vaccinated...
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Divided loyalties: Euros split residents of war-ravaged east Ukraine
(Refiles to fix spelling of Donetsk in paragraphs 4 and 20) By Sergei Kirichenko DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Seven years after...
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Japan likely to extend COVID-19 curbs in Tokyo as infections rise -sources
By Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is likely to extend by two weeks or more coronavirus containment measures in...
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Cycling-Spectator who caused Tour de France crash arrested
LAVAL, France (Reuters) -The spectator who caused a massive pile-up during the first stage of the Tour de France has...
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Olympics-Putin hosts Russians heading to Tokyo without flag, anthem
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin hosted Russian athletes heading to the Tokyo Olympics at the Kremlin on Wednesday, wishing them...
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