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Seminyak, Aug 7 (EFE/EPA).- Indonesia's virus-battered tourism sector has suffered economic losses of around $5.9 billion so far this year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association. (Camera: MADE NAGI).SHOT LIST: TOURISTS AT THE SEMINYAK BEACH RESORT AREA AT THE SOUTHERN END OF BALI, INDONESIA.
Janez Lenarcic, EU Commissioner for crisis management, announces that international donors pledged 6.9 billion euros ($7.7 billion) to face the ongoing humanitarian challenges of the nine-year Syrian crisis. SOUNDBITE
Tesco has revealed the cost of its spectacular decline with an annual loss of 6.4 billion pounds ($9.5 billion), one of the biggest in British corporate history. As Hayley Platt reports the world's third biggest retailer has also warned there could be more pain to come.
US lawmakers vote to reject a standalone Israel aid bill denounced by critics as a "cynical" bid to thwart a cross-party border security and foreign assistance package that would include cash for war-torn Ukraine. IMAGES
More than 400 million European voters will choose a new five-year EU parliament between June 6 and 9 next year, announces the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola. "Every person, in every member state, will go to vote" she says, "your vote matters". Elections in the EU's 27 member states will decide the make-up of the roughly 700-seat assembly, charged with overseeing European legislation. SOUNDBITE