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Norway to start COVID vaccination of children aged 12 years and older
OSLO (Reuters) -Norway will begin to offer COVID-19 vaccines to children aged 12 to 15, Prime Minister Erna Solberg said on Thursday. Only the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is so far recomm...
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Rocky Mountain dry: Canada’s waning water supply sows division in farm belt
By Rod Nickel and Jeff Lewis CROWSNEST PASS, Alberta (Reuters) - Where fly fisherman Shane Olson once paddled summer tourists around in a boat, he now guides them by foot - carefully navigating shallo...
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Fate of national daycare in the hands of Canadian voters
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians will face a stark choice on how to tackle a childcare crisis when they go to the polls on Sept. 20, with the ruling Liberals vowing to push ahead with a su...
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Irish data privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp 225 million euros
By Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland hit Facebook's WhatsApp with a record 225 million euro ($266 million) fine on Thursday following an inquiry into the messaging app's transparency around s...
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Number of people with dementia set to jump 40% to 78 million by 2030 -WHO
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 55 million people worldwide are living with dementia, a neurological disorder that robs them of their memory and costs the world $1.3 trillion a year,...
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Louisiana towns still crawling out from Ida’s destruction
By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Shattered communities across southern Louisiana were still assessing storm damage from Ida on Thursday as floodwaters had yet to recede in many places f...
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Tajikistan can’t afford to take in Afghan refugees without help -police chief
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan cannot afford to take in large numbers of refugees and asylum seekers from neighbouring Afghanistan as it promised to do in the summer, the police chief of Central Asia...
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Cricket-England opt to field against India, Woakes and Pope back
LONDON (Reuters) - England captain Joe Root won the toss and elected to field in the fourth test against India with both sides making two changes for the match at the Oval on Thursday. The hosts, who ...
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Britain’s Raab, in Qatar, says need to engage with Taliban on Afghanistan
DOHA (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Thursday said there is a need to engage with the Taliban on Afghanistan, but Britain has no immediate plans to recognise their government. Ra...
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J&J deal to ship COVID-19 shots from S.Africa to Europe halted, AU says
NAIROBI (Reuters) - An arrangement whereby Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was shipping to Europe COVID-19 vaccine doses that were being packaged in South Africa has been suspended, African Union (AU)envoy St...
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