Oct 7 (Reuters) -

MILAN, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Italy reported 41 coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday against 39 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections fell to 2,938 from 3,235.

Oct 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On an army base in the U.S. Midwest, dozens of Afghan refugee children sit with coloring books and pencils spread across their desks - listening intently as they are taught maths, English and how to prepare for life in the United States.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee," the award-giving body said on Thursday.

STOCKHOLM, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee," the award-giving body said on Thursday.

VATICAN CITY, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday the response to climate change would require a radical change in how people live as she met Pope Francis during a farewell visit to the Vatican and Italy.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian digital bank Banco Inter has hired banks to manage a listing in the United States, it said in a securities filing, sending its shares higher on Thursday.

QINZHOU, China (Reuters) - U.S. remote-control maker Universal Electronics Inc told Reuters it struck a deal with authorities in Xinjiang to transport hundreds of Uyghur workers to its plant in the southern Chinese city of Qinzhou, the first confirmed instance of an American company participating in a transfer program described by some rights groups as forced labor.

MILAN (Reuters) - The organizers of the Geneva International Motor Show said on Thursday that they would not organize the event next year due to "industry-wide issues relating to the COVID-19 pandemic".