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By Michael Erman (Reuters) – A U.S. decision on Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for infants and children 6 months through 4 years of age has been postponed for at least two months after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it needed more data. The FDA had planned to decide on the vaccine based …

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By Devjyot Ghoshal and Wa Lone (Reuters) – A Myanmar army officer who defected and fled the country has detailed battlefield losses to rebels in the southern part of Chin state, with at least 50 soldiers killed and 200 badly wounded in 2021 by opposition fighters with homemade weapons. Kaung Thu Win, a captain who …

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By Julien Pretot, Karolos Grohmann and Iain Axon BEIJING (Reuters) – Russian skating prodigy Kamila Valieva’s failed drug test prior to her dazzling Winter Games team gold threw the 15-year-old’s Olympic future into doubt and reawakened global anger over Moscow’s doping history on Friday. But the Kremlin – already facing Western diplomatic wrath over a …

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By Iain Axon BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States could prosecute the Russians involved in figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case under the American Rodchenkov Act, the head of the U.S. Anti Doping Agency (USADA), Travis Tygart, told Reuters on Friday. The Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act (RADA) was signed into U.S. law in 2020 and empowers …

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By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) -A variety of U.S.-based groups are organizing convoys of trucks and other vehicles for this weekend and early next month, emulating the protests against COVID-19 mandates that have roiled Canada https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-protests-enter-third-week-sophisticated-demonstrators-dig-2022-02-11 and disrupted North American supply lines. An organization dubbed “Convoy to Save America” said on its website that two …

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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia now has enough forces to conduct a major military operation against Ukraine and an assault aimed at seizing large parts of that country could begin “any day now,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday. Sullivan, speaking at a White House briefing without …

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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Canada’s trucker protesters could not have picked a better spot to disrupt the export-driven country’s economy, or the North American auto industry, than the four-lane Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, trade experts say. The 92-year old bridge was blocked for a fifth day on Friday by protesters …

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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – An International Labour Organization committee has expressed “deep concern” about China’s policies in its far western region of Xinjiang, calling them discriminatory and asking Beijing to bring its employment practices into line with global standards. The report on the region, home to China’s minority Muslim Uyghurs, risks stoking geopolitical …

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By Andrea Shalal and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is seeking to free up half of the $7 billion in frozen Afghan central bank assets on U.S. soil to help the Afghan people while holding the rest to possibly satisfy terrorism-related lawsuits against the Taliban, the White House said on Friday. President …

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