(Reuters) – US coronavirus cases were approaching 4 million on Thursday, with more than 2,600 new cases every hour on average, the highest rate in the world, according to a Reuters count. FILE PHOTO: Emergency medical technicians clean their supplies outside Memorial West Hospital, where patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. demand this week that China close its consulate in Houston is the latest in a series of disputes that have pushed the relationship between the world’s two largest economies to their lowest point in decades. FILE PHOTO: The flags of China, the United States, and the …
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FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks to the media near the scene of multiple stabbings in Reading, Britain, June 22, 2020. REUTERS / Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s route to citizenship for nearly three million people in Hong Kong will open in January 2021, and applicants won’t …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Last month, when the coronavirus was on the rise in Houston, recently unemployed hospital secretary Ramzan Boudoin received more bad news: He had six days to vacate his apartment for not paying rent. An entrance is seen to the Providence at Champions apartment complex, amid the …
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RAIPUR JATTAN, India / SINGAPORE (Reuters) – For more than two decades, Indian farmer Ravindra Kajal cultivated rice in the same way as his ancestors: every June he flooded his fields with water before hiring an army of farmers to plant seedlings for rice. FILE PHOTO: Workers work in a …
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