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Egypt introduces ban on unvaccinated public sector employees
CAIRO (Reuters) - A ban on public sector employees entering their offices if they are unvaccinated and untested for COVID-19 took effect in Egypt on Monday as the government pushes to accelerate vacci...
Nov 15, 2021
India’s Dr. Reddy’s open to making Pfizer COVID pill after Merck deal
By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, one of a handful of Indian drug companies licensed to make a new COVID-19 pill developed by Merck, said on Monday it was open to makin...
Nov 15, 2021
Tennis-Men’s tour backs WTA call for probe into Peng sexual assault allegations
(Reuters) - The governing body of men's tennis (ATP) on Monday backed the Women's Tennis Association's (WTA) call for China to investigate allegations of sexual assault made by Peng Shuai against a fo...
Nov 15, 2021
U.S. sanctions nine Nicaraguan officials, government ministry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Monday imposed sanctions on nine Nicaraguan officials and the Central American nation's public ministry in response to an election that Washington ha...
Nov 15, 2021
Government withdraws support for Miss South Africa for resisting Israel boycott
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The South African government has withdrawn its support for Miss South Africa after the organisation refused to pull out of the Miss Universe contest in Israel, amid calls for ...
Nov 15, 2021
Defense lawyer in Ahmaud Arbery murder trial seeks to have Jesse Jackson removed from court
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) -A lawyer for one of the three white men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, in their southern Georgia neighborhood failed in an attempt to have the judge re...
Nov 15, 2021
U.S. watchdog forecasts NASA will not launch human moon mission in 2025
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A watchdog report on Monday said NASA is not expected to be able to launch a crewed Moon landing mission in 2025 and raised questions about the project's costs. Last week, NASA ...
Nov 15, 2021
Hospitals in Slovak east fill up as COVID wave rages, new law tightens rules
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Hospitals in Slovakia, one of Europe's least-vaccinated nations, have been filling up with coronavirus patients, with the northeastern region of Presov reporting almost no spare int...
Nov 15, 2021
Celebrations and tears; collapse of MPS talks leaves Rome chasing Plan B
By Valentina Za and Giuseppe Fonte MILAN (Reuters) - Staff at Monte dei Paschi di Siena branches across northern Italy had circled Oct. 27 on their calendars as the day their professional lives would ...
Nov 15, 2021
Palestinian doctor revives case against Israel over daughters killed in Gaza
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dedi Hayun GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian doctor appealed to Israel's Supreme Court on Monday for compensation over the killing of his three daughters and a niece in...
Nov 15, 2021
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