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Italy approves COVID-19 vaccination for 5-11 year olds
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's medicines agency AIFA on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for the use of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11. AIFA's decision, which wa...
Dec 01, 2021
U.S. companies battle rising prices and labor shortages, Fed survey shows
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Ann Saphir (Reuters) - The U.S. economy expanded at a modest-to-moderate pace in October and the first half of November while firms grappled with rising inflation and a scrambl...
Dec 01, 2021
Explainer-Does Omicron pose higher risks for infants than other variants?
By Alexander Winning and Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Data from an area in South Africa hard-hit by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has shown a high number of hospital admissions of infan...
Dec 01, 2021
Tennis-Kukushkin wins epic to give Kazakhs lead over Serbia in Davis Cup quarter-final
MADRID (Reuters) - Kazakhstan veteran Mikhail Kukushkin claimed an epic victory over Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic to give his country the lead in their Davis Cup quarter-final tie in Madrid on Wednesday...
Dec 01, 2021
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to supply U.S. green energy research supercomputer
(Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co on Wednesday said it will supply a supercomputer to the U.S. government for renewable energy and energy efficiency research. The "Kestrel" supercomputer will ...
Dec 01, 2021
U.S. reports first case of Omicron variant
(Reuters) - The United States identified a first case of the new Omicron coronavirus variant in California, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday For days, U.S. health ...
Dec 01, 2021
U.N. chief slams COVID-19 ‘travel apartheid’ as unacceptable
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that travel restrictions imposed over COVID-19 that isolate any one country or region...
Dec 01, 2021
Fed’s Williams says Omicron variant may prolong supply-demand imbalances
(Reuters) - The latest COVID-19 variant could extend some of the supply-chain challenges and shortages that have led to higher inflation, and Federal Reserve officials will need to factor that in as t...
Dec 01, 2021
U.S. CDC has identified first case of Omicron in the U.S. in California- CNN reporter
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified the first case of Omicron in the U.S. in California, a CNN reporter tweeted on Wednesday. (Reporting by Juby Babu in Beng...
Dec 01, 2021
Union Pacific cuts 2021 volume, operating ratio growth forecast
(Reuters) - Union Pacific Corp cut its full-year forecast for volume and operating ratio growth on Wednesday, as supply chain logjams pressure the U.S. railroad operator's volumes. The Nebraska-based ...
Dec 01, 2021
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