PARIS (Reuters) – France is considering introducing mandatory PCR tests for all travelers entering the country from Britain, where infections linked to the Omicron variant are surging, a French government source said on Wednesday. No decision had yet been made, the source said. President Emmanuel Macron will convene senior ministers for a health ‘defense council’ …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Wednesday detained the co-owner of a major coal company and three of its senior managers to face charges over an explosion that killed 51 people at a Siberian mine last month. President Vladimir Putin has accused the management of the Listvyazhnaya mine in Siberia’s Kemerovo coal-producing region of falsifying methane levels …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The United States said it would share Russia’s proposals for European security with its allies and partners after Moscow handed them over at talks with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried in the Russian capital on Wednesday. The U.S. diplomat arrived at a time of soaring East-West tensions over a build-up of …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A Russian invasion of Ukraine would be catastophic and result in an “extremely tough” package of economic sanctions from Britian and its allies, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. “If Russia were so rash and mad as to engage in an invasion of sovereign territory of Ukraine there would be …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Four migrants from Syria and Iraq were rescued from a swamp in Poland near the border with Belarus late on Tuesday in a life-or-death operation as bitter winter conditions set in, security services said. While the number of migrants trying to cross into the European Union from Belarus has decreased in recent …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday that the government expects to see around 4,000 patients in intensive care with COVID-19 by the Christmas holidays. He also told a news conference that the Omicron variant does not seem, at this stage, to cause more severe forms of the disease than the …
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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union policymakers on Wednesday set out a second set of proposals to cut emissions across its economy this decade and to put it on track for net zero greenhouse gas output by 2050. In July, the 27-country bloc became the first of the world’s major emitters to map out …
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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to leave in place a Texas law banning most abortions has opened the door for states to seek to restrict other rights including guns by copying the measure’s novel enforcement mechanism, though it remains to be seen how many will actually do it. The …
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By Ghaida Ghantous and Humeyra Pamuk (Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday it was ready to move forward with the sale of F-35 fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates after Abu Dhabi told Washington it would suspend talks on the $23-billion deal that also includes munitions. The deal was signed …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is ready to scale up its sanctions and take “unprecedented measures” against Russia if it shows further aggression towards Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. Von der Leyen, speaking in the European Parliament, said the EU had worked closely with the United States to …
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