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Europe

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  Germany reports 650 new coronavirus cases in a meat processing plant

• Siberia's prolonged unusually warm weather is an 'alarming sign': scientist

• Ancient Irish elite practiced incest, new genetic data from Neolithic tomb shows

Middle East

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  Nationwide protests grip Lebanon as currency tanks

• UN says at least eight mass graves have been reported found in Libya

• Coronavirus death rates in Yemen's Aden could exceed its wartime fatalities

Africa

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  George Floyd's brother asks UN to help 'black people in America' in landmark debate on US systemic racism

• African countries are still waiting for a surge in Covid-19 cases. Some public health experts question whether it will happen

• 'The call that shattered my life,' popular Nigerian pastor mourns wife Ibidunni Ituah-Ighodalo who has died at 39

Americas

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  Paulinho Paiakan, Amazon chief and indigenous rainforest protector, dies with coronavirus

• President of Honduras says he and his wife have coronavirus

• She walked hundreds of miles with her daughters to the Amazon to escape Covid-19

Asia

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  India's Modi responds to 'violent face-off' with China over Himalayan border

• A border dispute with China may push India closer to some of Beijing's top rivals

• Why conventional wisdom giving China the military edge over India may not be true

CNN Business

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  China and India need each other. Just look at technology

• Europe is building defenses against Chinese takeovers of key industries

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Style

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Travel

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  Expats buy Japanese country house for a song and get way more than they bargained for

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• Which countries are reopening to tourists?

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US sports

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  Report: MLB nearing deal for 2020 season

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