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Dutch government budgets 175 million euros to buy Rembrandt – ministry
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government has put aside 175 million euros for the purchase of a "top" painting by Rembrandt, the ministry of education said in a letter to parliament on Wednesday. The...
Dec 08, 2021
Factbox-Countries making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory
(Reuters) - Governments have been making COVID-19 shots mandatory for health workers and other high-risk groups, pushed by a sharp upturn in infections caused by the Delta variant and a slowdown in va...
Dec 08, 2021
Iraqi migrant girl, 4, goes missing along Polish-Belarus border
WARSAW (Reuters) - A four-year-old Iraqi migrant girl went missing in an icy forest after being separated from her parents in a scuffle with Polish border guards, humanitarian groups said as they pres...
Dec 08, 2021
Jefferies cancels parties, travel, sends employees back home due to COVID-19
(Reuters) - Jefferies Financial Group on Wednesday canceled all client parties and most travel plans, asking employees to work from home where possible, due to a spate of COVID-19 cases. The company h...
Dec 08, 2021
Hearings for Fed’s Powell, Brainard likely next month, senator’s aide says
(Reuters) - U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown expects to wait until January to hold hearings on President Joe Biden's nominees to the top two Federal Reserve positions, according to th...
Dec 08, 2021
Czech government agrees to send troops to Poland-Belarus border
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government on Wednesday approved the deployment of up to 150 soldiers to help Poland stop the flow of migrants seeking entry from Belarus, a crisis the European Union has ...
Dec 08, 2021
Slovakia to re-open shops for vaccinated, others face longer lockdown
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovakia will on Friday re-open non-essential shops and some services for those vaccinated against COVID-19 while at the same time extending a lockdown for others and closing some s...
Dec 08, 2021
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor sculptures to be auctioned in New York
(Reuters) - Sculptures of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor - two of the Black Americans killed at the hands of police in 2020 - are to be auctioned to aid the non-profit groups set up by their families...
Dec 08, 2021
Curling-Continental Cup in Canada cancelled due to COVID-19
(Reuters) - The Continental Cup scheduled for next month in Fredericton, New Brunswick has been cancelled due to the Omicron coronavirus variant and isolation requirements for European teams headed to...
Dec 08, 2021
Omicron will spread through Americas in time, warns regional health agency
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has so far been detected in the Americas in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico and the United States, but it is just a matter of time ...
Dec 08, 2021
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