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By David Lawder and Valerie Volcovici NUSA DUA, Indonesia/SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – A coalition of countries will mobilise $20 billion of public and private finance to help Indonesia shut coal power plants and bring forward the sector’s peak emissions date by seven years to 2030, the United States, Japan and partners announced on Tuesday. …

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(Reuters) – Moderna Inc said on Monday its Omicron-tailored vaccines produced a better immune response against the BA.4/5 subvariants in a mid-to-late stage study, when given as a booster dose, compared with its original shot. Data shows that both of Moderna’s Omicron-tailored shots, mRNA-1273.214 and mRNA-1273.222, produced a higher antibody response against BA.4/5 subvariants than …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Monday that Israel will not cooperate with any external investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Local media reported that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched an investigation into the killing of the Palestinian-American reporter, who was fatally …

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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders of G20 countries are gathering on the Indonesian resort island of Bali with strict testing and masking requirements, even though such measures have been largely dropped in some member countries. It is Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first G20 summit – and only …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Russia on Monday barred entry to 100 Canadians in retaliation for Ottawa’s exclusion of Russian citizens, the latest wave of a long series of tit-for-tat expulsions from Russia and Western countries over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Canadians added to its sanctions list …

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(Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry on Monday denied an Associated Press report that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had been taken to hospital, casting the report as the “height of fakery.” Associated Press, citing Indonesian officials, said that Lavrov was taken to hospital after arriving in Indonesia’s Bali island for the G20 summit. “This, of course, …

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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was taken to hospital after arriving in Indonesia’s Bali for the G20 summit, the Associated Press reported on Monday, a report that Moscow dismissed as “fake news”. AP reported that Lavrov was being treated for a heart condition, citing several sources. However, Russia’s foreign ministry …

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By David Gauthier-Villars, Azra Ceylan and Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Six people were killed and 81 others wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in what Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called a bomb attack that “smells like terrorism”. Hundreds of people fled the historic Istiklal Avenue after the …

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