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Ireland allows AstraZeneca vaccine for all adults, cuts dose gap
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Tuesday lifted restrictions on giving AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to adults aged under 50 and reduced the recommended gap between doses from eight weeks to four. Curbs...
Jun 29, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court backs pipeline companies in New Jersey land dispute
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of a consortium of energy companies including Enbridge Inc seeking to seize land owned by New Jersey to build...
Jun 29, 2021
U.S. first lady may attend Olympics opening in Tokyo, Biden says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Jill Biden may go to Tokyo to attend the Olympics opening ceremony next month, her husband, President Joe Biden, said on Tuesday. "We're trying to work that out ...
Jun 29, 2021
‘Question the conventional’: Modern-day 10 Commandments artwork on the move
ZURICH (Reuters) - Ten sandstone slabs called the "10 Commandments Vol. 2" are being carted across Switzerland in a work by conceptual artists Frank and Patrik Riklin. "Trust insanity and question the...
Jun 29, 2021
Exclusive: Google deal with French publishers on hold pending antitrust decision – sources
By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has frozen a three-year deal with some French publishers as it awaits an antitrust decision that could set the tone on copyright talks for n...
Jun 29, 2021
Fed should pursue ‘least drama’ way of tapering – Fed’s Barkin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve should taper in the least dramatic way possible when the time comes, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin said on Tuesday. "I have s...
Jun 29, 2021
Tennis-Fourth seed Zverev eases past qualifier Griekspoor
LONDON (Reuters) - Fourth seed Alexander Zverev served strongly to overpower Dutch qualifier Tallon Griekspoor 6-3 6-4 6-1 on Tuesday and advance to the second round of Wimbledon. The U.S. Open finali...
Jun 29, 2021
Tigray forces enter town of Shire in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region -witnesses
GONDAR, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Tigrayan forces entered Ethiopia's key northern town of Shire on Tuesday, two eyewitnesses told Reuters, cementing further territorial gains in the northern region of Tigr...
Jun 29, 2021
Biden says he may visit Florida as early as Thursday after Miami building collapse
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said he may travel to Florida as early as Thursday after a building collapse near Miami killed at least 11 people and left 150 missing and feared dead. ...
Jun 29, 2021
U.S. consumer confidence races to more than one-year high in June
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence increased in June to its highest level since the COVID-19 pandemic started more than a year ago, bolstering expectations for strong economic growth in t...
Jun 29, 2021
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