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Drop in COVID-19 vaccine efficacy against Delta seen in U.S. nursing homes
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for people in American nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where residents are often elderly and frail, has dropped since the...
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Canada’s hot inflation takes center stage in election campaign
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) -At the gas pumps and in the grocery store, on their utility bills and especially when looking for housing, Canadians are feeling the pinch of red-hot inflation and th...
Syndicated Content Aug 18, 2021
Islamist militants kill 47 people in northern Burkina Faso
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Islamist militants in northern Burkina Faso killed at least 47 people, including 30 civilians and 14 soldiers, in an attack on Wednesday, state media reported. The attack near t...
Syndicated Content Aug 18, 2021
Biden administration seeks to block Taliban from accessing reserves from IMF -New York Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration wants to block the Taliban from accessing more than $400 million in emergency reserves that the International Monetary Fund is scheduled to release to A...
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Afghan film director recounts escape from Kabul
By Margaryta Chornokondratenko KYIV (Reuters) - Sahraa Karimi had been waiting in line for nearly three hours to withdraw money from a bank in Kabul on Sunday when the bank manager came over and urged...
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Cancer patients’ own cells used in 3D printed tumours to test treatments
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Researchers have used brain cancer patients' own cells in a form of 3D printing material to make a model of their tumour to test the efficacy of potential treatments before using ...
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Exiled Ghani says he left Kabul to prevent bloodshed, did not take money
(Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, speaking from exile in the United Arab Emirates, said on Wednesday that he had left Kabul to prevent bloodshed and denied reports he took large sums of money...
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Haiti quake leaves small businesses in ruins, compounding woes
By Laura Gottesdiener LES CAYES (Reuters) - Days before a powerful earthquake struck, Rosemond Clermont paid the $1,554 rent on the office of his construction business in southern Haiti for the rest o...
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Biden set to meet with Israel’s prime minister on Aug 26 -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will host Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for a meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, the White House said on Wednesday. "The President and Prime Min...
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Sugar rally could help India to export 6 million tonnes without subsidy
By Rajendra Jadhav and Mayank Bhardwaj MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India could export 6 million tonnes of sugar in the new season starting in October even without government subsidies, with global pr...
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