By Pushkala Aripaka (Reuters) – EU health agencies have recommended that COVID-19 vaccines be mixed and matched for both initial courses and booster doses as the region battles rising cases ahead of Christmas. Evidence suggests that the combination of viral vector vaccines and mRNA vaccines produces good levels of antibodies against the coronavirus causing COVID-19, …
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By John Irish DOHA (Reuters) -Talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are expected to resume on Thursday, France’s foreign minister said, although he added that he feared Iran was playing for time. “The elements… are not very encouraging,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told a French parliament committee, referring to the seventh …
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By Vladimir Soldatkin and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) – Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden set out their opposing positions on Ukraine in a video call on Tuesday and agreed that Russia and the United States should keep talking, the Kremlin said. “It’s hard to expect any sudden breakthroughs, but the presidents demonstrated their willingness …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other European leaders agreed with U.S. President Joe Biden on the need for ongoing dialogue with Russia aimed at ending its threatening behaviour towards Ukraine, Johnson’s office said on Tuesday. Biden spoke to Johnson, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on more than a dozen people and entities in Iran, Syria and Uganda, accusing them of being connected to serious human rights abuses and repressive acts. In an action marking the week of the U.S. Summit for Democracy, the Treasury Department said in a statement …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France on Tuesday registered a surge in COVID-19 hospitalisations as a rise in new infections in mid-November led to an increase in patient numbers. The health ministry reported that the number of COVID-19 patients in French hospitals rose by 618 to 12,714, the second-highest net one-day increase this year behind the net increase …
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By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU health ministers discussed measures to try to halt the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus on Tuesday, with the Netherlands calling for negative tests for incoming travellers from outside the bloc and France urging tests even for those arriving from EU states. In line with many countries, …
WARSAW (Reuters) – The party is over for Poles this holiday season with nightclubs set to close in the face of high COVID-19 case numbers, the government said on Tuesday, with a key exception – New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announced a raft of new measures – including compulsory …
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By Nada Nader Youssef Youssef BERLIN (Reuters) – Kurdish-Iraqi migrant Elias Baraa says he was close to starvation when he paid a Belarusian soldier $100 for a tin of beef after being trapped almost two weeks between Belarusian and Polish forces on the European Union’s eastern frontier. “I spent 12 days on the border with …
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By Kia Johnson and Andrea Shalal (Reuters) – The United States marked the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Tuesday as the number of Americans belonging to the “Greatest Generation” who lived through World War Two dwindles. The attack on Dec. 7, 1941 shook a …
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