By Lea Guedj VITRY-SUR-SEINE, France (Reuters) – French archivist Adele Bellot went on Tuesday to get a booster shot against COVID-19 with one aim in mind – to save Christmas. “Christmas is coming soon and there are elderly people in my family. I really want to protect them from getting infected, that’s it,” she said, …
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By Tommy Ardiansyah CURAH KOBOKAN, Indonesia (Reuters) – At the foot of Indonesia’s Mount Semeru, what is left of the houses along the main village road are covered in a thick layer of hardened volcanic ash. Curah Kobokan was among the worst-hit areas when the 3,676-metre (12,060 ft) Mount Semeru erupted on Saturday, sending a …
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By Poppy McPherson (Reuters) – The imprisonment of former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi showed that no one was above the law, a senior junta official said on Tuesday, and the country’s ruling general had commuted her sentence on “grounds of humanity”. Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, 76, was sentenced to four years in prison …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A man who killed his wife and three young children before taking his own life had faked a vaccination certificate and feared his children would be taken away from him when the forgery was discovered, a German prosecutor said on Tuesday. Police found two adults, both 40, and three children aged four, …
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By Pushkala Aripaka and Lucy Marks (Reuters) – A major British study into mixing COVID-19 vaccines has found that people had a better immune response when they received a first dose of AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech shots followed by Moderna nine weeks later, according to the results on Monday. “We found a really good immune response …
KYIV (Reuters) – A truck collided with a minibus on a highway in northern Ukraine on Tuesday morning, killing at least ten people and injuring seven, a statement by the emergency services said. Rescuers were at the scene in the Chernihiv region, the statement said. (Reporting by Natalia Zinets; Writing by Matthias Williams; Editing by …
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (Reuters) – Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said he could barely contain his excitement a day ahead of blasting off to the International Space Station in a prelude to a more ambitious trip around the moon with Elon Musk’s SpaceX planned in 2023. The 46-year-old fashion magnate and art collector has been training at …
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By Steve Holland, Humeyra Pamuk, Michael Martina and Gabriel Crossley WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S. government officials will boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing because of China’s human rights “atrocities”, the White House said on Monday, just weeks after talks aimed at easing tense relations between the two superpowers. The diplomatic boycott, which leaves athletes free …
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By Steve Holland, Humeyra Pamuk, Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S. government officials will boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing because of China’s human rights “atrocities”, the White House said on Monday, just weeks after talks aimed at easing tense relations between the two superpowers. The diplomatic boycott, which leaves athletes free …
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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon completed military construction and will begin testing a long-range radar for a homeland missile defense system that can track intercontinental ballistic missiles as well as next generation threats such as hypersonic weapons, the Pentagon said on Monday. The 2015 U.S. Defense Department plan was to deploy a …
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