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UK orders 35 million more Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccines
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has agreed to buy 35 million more doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, to be delivered from the second half of next year, as part of its preparations for booster s...
Aug 23, 2021
Adelaide to Hollywood via Edinburgh in a day: Fringe theatre goes global
By Barbara Lewis and Sarah Mills (Reuters) - A new digital theatre platform developed to keep audiences engaged during lockdown is being used by performers to take their shows to festivals far from ho...
Aug 23, 2021
U.S. military evacuated more than 10,000 people from Kabul on Sunday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military flew approximately 10,400 people out of Kabul over 24 hours on Sunday, and 61 coalition planes helped evacuate approximately 5,900, a White House official said...
Aug 23, 2021
Fed chief Powell’s record ‘mixed,’ think tank says
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) - A think tank highly critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's record on banking regulation released an assessment of his four-year tenure on Monday that is by turns s...
Aug 23, 2021
AB Volvo buys Chinese vehicles business for about $125.7 million
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -AB Volvo said on Monday it had struck a deal to buy Chinese JMC Heavy Duty Vehicle Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Jiangling Motors Co. Ltd, for about 1.1 billion Swedish crowns ($125.7...
Aug 23, 2021
U.S. House Democrats face test of unity on Biden spending plans
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats face a test of unity in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday as they begin work on two ambitious spending plans that would devote trillions of...
Aug 23, 2021
Pfizer to buy cancer drug developer Trillium in $2.3 billion deal
(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc said on Monday it would buy Canadian drug developer Trillium Therapeutics Inc in a $2.26 billion deal to strengthen its arsenal of blood cancer therapies. Pfizer, which acquired ...
Aug 23, 2021
Ethiopia to build local rival to Facebook, other platforms
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communicatio...
Aug 23, 2021
Thailand to receive 61 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine this year
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will receive 61 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine this year, a government spokesperson said on Monday, as the Southeast Asian country rushes to vaccinate i...
Aug 23, 2021
Russia-led security bloc to hold drills in Kyrgyzstan on Sept. 1-9 -RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russia-led CSTO security bloc will hold exercises involving its rapid deployment forces in Kyrgyzstan on Sept. 1-9, the RIA news agency cited Kyrgyzstan's foreign ministry as sa...
Aug 23, 2021
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