| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Friday, August 6, 2021 by Robert MacMillan | Hello Here's what you need to know. IOC removes two Belarus coaches, U.S. nurses use social media to describe the grim reality of COVID-19, Europe’s banks risk backlash with bonus pools | | | | | Today's biggest stories  Belarus athletics head coach Yuri Moisevich and team official Artur Shumak wait to board a flight to return home, in Tokyo, August 6, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon World Two Belarus coaches who cut short sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya's Tokyo Games have had their accreditation revoked and were removed from the athletes village. In an exclusive interview with Reuters in Warsaw on Thursday, Tsimanouskaya said the two officials had told her the order to send her home came from "high up" in Belarus.
Thousands of people fled their homes on the outskirts of Athens and hundreds were evacuated by boat from the nearby island of Evia as Greece faced a fourth day of wildfires. In Turkey, authorities are battling the country's worst ever wildfires, which forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people including tourists and briefly threatened to engulf a power station.
'I'm going to die': a migrant recalls his perilous Channel crossing. Abdullah al Badri, a 27-year-old Bedouin from Kuwait, tells his story of traveling across Europe for four years as a stateless refugee looking for a new home.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apologized for accidentally skipping parts of a speech in Hiroshima to mark the anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city 76 years ago.
The Andes Mountain range, which draws skiers to South America, is facing historically low snowfall this year during a decade-long drought that scientists link to global warming. |  Critical care workers insert an endotracheal tube into a COVID-19-positive patient in the ICU at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton U.S. As the United States grapples with rising COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths, health care workers are turning to social media to describe the grim reality. Nichole Atherton is one. "People want to argue about masks and vaccines and freedom. I just don't want to watch anyone else die," the 39-year-old mother of two wrote on Facebook. "I see their faces in my nightmares. And it feels like it is never ending."
A battle to win a path to citizenship for Dreamer immigrants, following two decades of defeat, is underway in the Senate as Democrats face tough challenges on several fronts, including within their own ranks.
The United States is flying Central American and Mexican families to southern Mexico in an effort to deter migration by bolstering a COVID-era expulsion policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, a person familiar with the matter said.
Donald Trump's Save America fundraising committee has raised more than $90 million. The massive sum poses a problem: even with a $5,000 maximum donation to a Republican in every congressional election, it would take decades to spend it. Or it could fund years of Trump rallies, preparing for a possible 2024 White House run.
The Justice Department is investigating whether police in Phoenix unlawfully used deadly force, retaliated against peaceful protesters and violated the rights of homeless people in the latest such inquiry involving a major American city.
The main thoroughfare in a historic California gold-rush town was in smoldering ruins on Thursday, hours after the state's largest wildfire engulfed the hamlet of Greenville in the Sierra Nevada range. |  A cruise ship arrives at Havana bay, March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini Business Norwegian Cruise Line heads to federal court in a battle that pits the company's plan for returning to the seas against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's vow to oppose COVID-19 "vaccine passports."
Europe's banks have added billions of dollars to bonus pools as they try to reassure restless staff they will be rewarded in 2021 after a lean 2020. The planned payouts are more modest than the bonus bonanza on Wall Street, but they still risk public backlash as many people struggle through the pandemic.
Morrisons agreed to a raised takeover offer worth $9.3 billion from a group led by Fortress, though some big investors in the supermarket chain indicated that the offer was too low.
The most devastating frost in decades in Brazil and record freight costs sparked by COVID-19 are causing massive shipping logjams that are expected to push retail prices for coffee to multi-year highs in the coming weeks. | | | | | | | Video of the day  Flakes on a plane: FAA urges airports to assist with unruly flyers | | | | And finally… Sympathy for the drummer  Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts pose at the opening of the exhibit "Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones," New York City, November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar Charlie Watts might not be a part of the Stones' upcoming U.S. tour as he is recovering from a medical procedure. | | | Thanks for spending part of your day with us. | | | | | |
