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Brazil descendents of escaped slaves tested for coronavirus
By Pablo Garcia REGISTRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Escaped slaves in Brazil seeking to live freely often set up communities called quilombos where their former owners could not find them. But the coronaviru...
Jul 30, 2020
U.S. lawmakers offer bill to boost aid for Ukraine military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation to back Ukraine with $300 million of annual military financing and other support on Thursday, a year after the Eas...
Jul 30, 2020
Botswana reinstates coronavirus lockdown in capital for two weeks
GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana's capital city Gaborone returned to a two-week lockdown from midnight on Thursday to stem the latest local coronavirus surge in the country, an official said. Under new r...
Jul 30, 2020
Fed’s Main Street loan volume picks up but still modest
(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve facilitated the largest volume of loans yet in the latest week under its new Main Street Lending Program, although the total amount of credit extended by the central ba...
Jul 30, 2020
Argentina’s Guzman says debt offer “maximum” effort, hints at deadline delay
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina economy minister Martin Guzman emphasized on Thursday that the country's proposal to creditors to restructure around $65 billion in foreign debt was the maximum effo...
Jul 30, 2020
White House opposes U.S. requirement for passengers to wear masks on planes, trains
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday said it opposed language in a bill before Congress that would require airline, train and public transit passengers and workers to wear masks to addre...
Jul 30, 2020
VW asks U.S. appeals court to reconsider ruling on diesel emissions updates
By David Shepardson (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG on Thursday asked the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling that said two counties could seek financial penalties over excess diesel ...
Jul 30, 2020
NHC: Tropical Storm Isaias forecast to become hurricane by Friday
(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to become a hurricane by Friday or Friday night, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Thursday. The storm is located about 155 miles (250 kilo...
Jul 30, 2020
U.S. Justice says Mexican ex-security minister Garcia Luna charged related to ‘criminal enterprise’
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican former Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna has been charged with "engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise" at a court in New York, the U.S. Department of Justice ...
Jul 30, 2020
Mexican president orders creation of state-run medicine agency
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government will create a state-run medicine distribution agency and will sign an agreement with the United Nations to purchase cheaper drugs and vaccines on the intern...
Jul 30, 2020
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