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Sweden expands traveler COVID-19 testing over Omicron worries
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Swedish health agency on Tuesday recommended that all travellers above the age of 6 entering Sweden from outside the Nordic region take a COVID-19 test within seven days due ...
Nov 30, 2021
Two International Red Cross workers abducted in eastern Congo
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -One Congolese and one international staff member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were abducted in conflict-hit eastern Democratic R...
Nov 30, 2021
France records highest one-day tally in COVID cases since April
PARIS (Reuters) - France has registered about 47,000 new confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, Health Minister Olivier Veran told lawmakers on Tuesday, the highest one-day tally since April...
Nov 30, 2021
Compensation for crumbling homes to cost Ireland 2.2 billion euros
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will provide 2.2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) to help repair or rebuild homes constructed using defective blocks during the light-touch regulation of the Celtic Tiger boom o...
Nov 30, 2021
Nine Scottish Omicron cases all linked to same event – Sturgeon
LONDON (Reuters) - The nine cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant in Scotland were all linked to the same private event, and none of the people who had tested positive for the variant had required ...
Nov 30, 2021
Merck says its COVID-19 drug should be effective against any variant
(Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc's experimental COVID-19 drug molnupiravir should have similar activity against any new coronavirus variant, a company executive said on Tuesday. The drug, developed along wi...
Nov 30, 2021
Senators say U.S. must strengthen space debris monitoring
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of senators on Tuesday asked the Biden administration to do more to monitor and respond to space debris following Russia's anti-satellite test. Commerce Committee chair ...
Nov 30, 2021
Soccer-Defensive work hurting Chelsea forwards in front of goal: Tuchel
(Reuters) - Chelsea's forwards are misfiring in the Premier League due to their defensive workload, manager Thomas Tuchel said on Tuesday, but the German manager trusts his team to get them back to th...
Nov 30, 2021
U.S. consumer confidence ebbs in November
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence slipped in November amid concerns about the rising cost of living and relentless COVID-19 pandemic. The Conference Board said on Tuesday its consumer co...
Nov 30, 2021
Belarus leader, in U-Turn, says annexed Crimea is legally Russian – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 was legally Russian territory, the RIA news agency reporte...
Nov 30, 2021
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