MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 1st 2022
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:15 UTC
Two killed unprovokedly by UN peacekeepers in Congo
Congolese authorities have taken action Sunday after two people were killed by fire stemming from the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the violence-torn African country, it was announced Sunday.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:12 UTC
Falklands celebrates Daphne's win in Lawn Bowls and England's Euro Women's Cup
Double celebration for the Falkland Islands. The Islands Lawn Bowls Ladies Single Daphne Arthur Almond beat India's Tania Choudhary in a very tense competition from 21 to 20.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:42 UTC
New Zealand fully reopens borders to build back from COVID isolation
The Government of New Zealand has fully reopened its borders effective August 1 to foreign visitors, thus ending the sanitary restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic. The South Pacific country had one of the toughest travel regimes imposed on health grounds globally. Before Covid-19, tourism accounted for 5.5% of New Zealand's GDP.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:06 UTC
Peru totals 282 cases of monkeypox
Peruvian health authorities have reported the number of monkeypox cases in the country had reached 282 Sunday, 34 days after the first infection was confirmed.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:00 UTC
Biden tests positive again for COVID-19 after just a few days
US President Joseph Biden has tested positive again for COVID-19, the White House reported. According to his head physician, he “continues to feel well” and is asymptomatic but will nonetheless work from isolation.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 06:52 UTC
Pelosi not to cancel Asian tour but mum about Taiwan
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidential succession, has announced she would carry on with her plans to lead a delegation of lawmakers from her country on an Asian tour, but there was no mention of Taiwan.
