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Tiktok lovers rage against Trump threat of US ban 04 Aug 2020 - 10:18 am
FILE PHOTO: The logo of TikTok is seen on a screen in this picture illustration taken February 21, 2019. Picture taken February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Illustration/File Photo
Kuwait Amir's health improving, says Prime Minister 03 Aug 2020 - 10:48 pm
His Highness Kuwait Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
1st big Southern California wildfire of 2020 keeps on raging 03 Aug 2020 - 09:54 pm
In this long exposure photograph, firefighters monitor flames as they skirt a hillside near a residential area during the Apple fire in Banning, California on August 1, 2020. 4,125 acres have burn in Cherry Valley, about 2,000 people have received evacuat
Italy sees signs of hope in new Genoa bridge 03 Aug 2020 - 08:21 pm
A rainbow is seen over the new San Giorgio bridge on the inauguration day on August 3 , 2020 in Genoa, the new high-tech structure will have four maintenance robots running along its length to spot weathering or erosion, as well as a special dehumidificat
Cheaper cocoa may not be a recipe for lower chocolate prices 03 Aug 2020 - 08:15 pm
Confectionery is seen at L. Heiner confectioner's production facility in Vienna, Austria, April 18, 2018. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader/File Photo
In milestone year, A-bomb survivor keeps up fight for nuclear disarmament 03 Aug 2020 - 07:00 pm
Terumi Tanaka, a Nagasaki atomic bombing survivor and co-chairperson of Nihon Hidankyo, a country-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers, attends an interview with Reuters at the Nihon Hidankyo office in Tokyo, Japan July 30, 2020. Pictur
South Africa's Shoprite grocery chain may pull out of Nigeria 03 Aug 2020 - 06:18 pm
A Shoprite store sign is pictured in Abuja, Nigeria August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
Philippine capital returning to lockdown as virus surges 03 Aug 2020 - 05:53 pm
Filipinos queue outside a pharmacy, a day before the Philippine capital goes back to a stricter lockdown amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections spike, at a public market in Manila, Philippines, August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
Mexican TV networks to provide home learning for students as schools stay shut 03 Aug 2020 - 05:45 pm
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Spain to roll out COVID-19 app twice as effective as human tracers in pilot 03 Aug 2020 - 05:19 pm
FILE PHOTO: Volunteers show residents how to install an app to trace contacts with people potentially infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) being trialled on the Canary Island of La Gomera, Spain, July 3, 2020. Alejandro Noda/via REUTERS/File P
Indian restaurant offers 'COVID curry' to scared customers 03 Aug 2020 - 04:43 pm
A waiter carries 'Covid Curry' and 'Mask Naan,' two Covid-19 coronavirus-themed dishes, to serve to customers at their restaurant in Jodhpur on August 3, 2020. / AFP / SUNIL VERMA
Norway's Hurtigruten halts cruises after COVID-19 outbreak 03 Aug 2020 - 04:37 pm
The expedition cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen is moored at a quay in Tromso, northern Norway, on August 1, 2020. / Norway OUT / AFP / NTB Scanpix / Rune Stoltz Bertinussen
Excavation begins at historic Dakar market in renovation project 03 Aug 2020 - 04:16 pm
Caterpillars are seen in action at the start of the demolition work of the Sandaga market in Dakar, on August 2, 2020. / AFP / Seyllou
Paris pulls out the stops to restore Notre-Dame's grand organ 03 Aug 2020 - 01:25 pm
FILE PHOTO: The organ is pictured during preliminary work in the Notre-Dame Cathedral, three months after a major fire, in Paris, France July 17, 2019. Stephane de Sakutin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Masks on as German children start new schoolyear under virus cloud 03 Aug 2020 - 01:13 pm
Students attend class at the Christophorusschule school in Rostock, northern Germany, on August 3, 2020, as school resumed after the summer break in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), amid a Coronavirus Covid-19 pa
Singapore's Universal Studios deploys facial recognition for entry 03 Aug 2020 - 12:43 pm
FILE PHOTO: People visit the largely empty Universal Studios Singapore, as tourism takes a decline following the coronavirus outbreak, in Sentosa March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo
John Hume, Northern Irish Catholic leader and Nobel Peace laureate, dies at 83 03 Aug 2020 - 12:17 pm
FILE PHOTO: Former SDLP leader, John Hume, arrives for the funeral mass of former Bishop Edward Daly at St. Eugene's Cathedral in Londonderry, Northern Ireland August 11, 2016. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo
Montreal's tourist heart a ghost town in pandemic summer 03 Aug 2020 - 11:43 am
People take pictures in front of Ferris Wheel in the Old-Port, Montreal, Canada, on July 28, 2020. AFP / Eric Thomas