Daily News Summary (09-02-2021)

• Hyundai and Kia downplay Apple car rumors

• US seeks to rejoin UN Human Rights Council

• The UK is building the world’s first airport for flying cars

• Elon Musk is writing a book about his business and career

• Asus plans to release a compact smartphone Zenfone Mini

• UK calls for a reset with EU and 'refinement' of Brexit deal

• EU states expel three Russian diplomats in tit-for-tat move

• Israeli PM Netanyahu pleads not guilty to corruption charges

• Dutch freeze international adoptions after abuses uncovered

• Tens of thousands join largest protests in Myanmar since 2007

• Man shot dead making 'prank' robbery YouTube video in the US

• Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete

• Hundreds of thousands of estate workers strike for a wage rise in Sri Lanka

• At least 18 deaths and 200 people are missing after glacier disaster in India

• British boy wakes from a nearly year-long coma unaware of COVID pandemic

• Lewis Hamilton, British Formula 1 racing driver, signs new contract with Mercedes


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