NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Thursday permanently eased some restrictions on a pill used to terminate early pregnancies, allowing the drug to be sent by mail rather than requiring it to be dispensed in person. The decision by the Food and Drug Administration comes as the right to obtain an abortion, established …
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(Reuters) – Talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal will be held in Vienna on Friday before breaking for a “few days”, Iran’s chief negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani said. The indirect U.S.-Iran talks on bringing both sides back into full compliance with the deal are in their seventh round. Bagheri Kani said on Twitter that he …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian authorities on Friday rushed to track down hundreds who attended a Taylor Swift album party in Sydney last week that has become a super-spreading event as cases in the country hit a new pandemic high for the second straight day. COVID-19 infections, including the new, more transmissible Omicron variant, have been …
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By Michael Erman (Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended Americans choose to receive one of two other authorised COVID-19 vaccines over Johnson & Johnson’s shot, due to rare but sometimes fatal cases of blood-clotting. The CDC’s move came after its Advisory Committee on Immunization voted unanimously to make the …
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By Gessika Thomas and Brian Ellsworth CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (Reuters) -The last 12 Canadian and American missionaries from a group kidnapped in October in Haiti have been released, police said on Thursday, ending an ordeal that brought global attention to the Caribbean nation’s growing problem of gang abductions. The group, which was abducted by a gang …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russia has made no move to withdraw troops it has amassed at the border with Ukraine but there is no sign that a Russian invasion is imminent, a senior Ukrainian security official said on Wednesday. Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s Security and Defence Council, told Reuters in an interview …
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By Philip Blenkinsop, Gabriela Baczynska and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union leaders agreed on Thursday they would impose further economic sanctions on Russia – in tandem with the United States and Britain – if the Russian military invaded Ukraine, although they encouraged more diplomacy with Moscow. Baltic, central and eastern European states believe the …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Armed forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region have stepped up killings, mass detentions and expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in neighbouring western Tigray, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. Separately, Tigrayan television reported that air raids by the Ethiopian military on the town of Alamata, in southern Tigray, had killed …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -An Israeli air strike killed a soldier in southern Syria on Thursday, Syrian state media reported, in an attack in a frontier area where Israel has expressed concern about deployments of Iran-backed forces. An Israeli military spokesperson declined to comment on the report. Israel has mounted frequent attacks against what it has described …
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By Pascal Rossignol, Manuel Ausloos and Stephane Mahe WIMEREUX, France (Reuters) -In the early hours of Thursday on a beach in northern France, a small group of police with torches tries to stand in the way of dozens of migrants heading for the sea carrying a grey dinghy. It’s tense. The police are outnumbered. The …
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