By Aparupa Mazumder and Rittik Biswas (Reuters) – Europe crossed 75 million coronavirus cases on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as the region braces for the new Omicron variant at a time when hospitals in some countries are already strained by the current surge. Over 15 countries in Europe have reported confirmed cases of …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Dutch authorities on Friday arrested around 50 protesters who breached security around the building of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, local police said. “Protesters stormed the (OPCW) building and we immediately decided to act”, The Hague police spokesman Dick Goijert told Reuters. “All protesters on …
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By Philip Pullella and Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Reuters) – Pope Francis, at an emotional meeting with migrants, said on Friday he had a responsibility to tell the hard truth about the suffering of refugees, many held in conditions he compared to those in Nazi and Soviet camps. Francis, who has made defence of migrants and …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s government approved a bill on Friday to tackle gender-based violence and strengthen surveillance on suspects, amid growing worries over high levels of hate crimes against women. The Interior Ministry says 93 women have been killed in 2021 by partners or relatives, while almost 4,000 women have been sexually assaulted so far …
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By Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela has denied visa extensions for electoral observers from the European Union, requiring them to leave the South American country this weekend, a source with knowledge of the matter said. The observers arrived in October for regional and local elections that took place on Nov. 21. Members of the …
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By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) – Severe flooding has hit South Sudan’s northern state of Unity, cutting off communities from accessing supplies of food and other vital commodities, a state official said on Friday. More than 700,000 people have been affected by the worst flooding in the country for nearly 60 years, the U.N. refugee …
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By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) -BioNTech should be able to adapt its coronavirus vaccine relatively quickly in response to the Omicron variant, and the next few weeks will show how urgently an upgrade is needed, its CEO Ugur Sahin told the Reuters Next conference on Friday. Sahin said people should continue to seek the established …
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By Francesco Guarascio and Stephanie Nebehay (Reuters) -The World Health Organization’s chief scientist told the Reuters Next conference on Friday the Omicron variant could become dominant because it is highly transmissible, but that a different vaccine may not be needed. Soumya Swaminathan also said it was too early to say whether Omicron is milder than …
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By Philip Pullella and Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Reuters) – Cyprus said on Friday that 50 migrants in the country would be re-located as part of an initiative by Pope Francis coinciding with his visit to the east Mediterranean island. The interior ministry, in an announcement that confirmed an earlier Reuters report, said the 50 included …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The Scottish government said on Friday it expected cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant to rise significantly in upcoming days as there was now community transmission of the strain. “The number of Omicron cases now being reported in Scotland is rising, and cases are no longer all linked to a single event, …
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