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U.S. says $11.6 billion NYC-area tunnel project reaches key milestones
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. agencies on Friday said a planned $11.6 billion project to reconstruct and add a new tunnel between New York City and New Jersey reached two key mil...
May 28, 2021
Soccer-First choice Dutch keeper tests positive for COVID-19 ahead of Euros
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Netherlands' first choice goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen has tested positive for coronavirus and will not travel with the team for a week-long European Championship training camp in...
May 28, 2021
Britain approves J&J COVID-19 vaccine for use
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's medicine regulator has approved Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine for use, the health ministry said in a statement on Friday, making it the fourth COVID-19 shot availab...
May 28, 2021
Greece seeks bids to build closed holding centres for migrants on islands
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has launched a European Union-wide tender to build two closed-type facilities replacing migrant camps on its islands, a move that has been criticised by a leading human right...
May 28, 2021
Vietnam coronavirus outbreak threatens to disrupt tech supply chain
By James Pearson and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) - A rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak has left factories operating below capacity in Vietnam's industrial northern provinces, where suppliers for A...
May 28, 2021
IATA boss blames governments for prolonging travel crisis
PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - The head of global airline industry body IATA blames overly risk-averse governments for prolonging the COVID-19 crisis for the travel sector but expects the outlook to brighte...
May 28, 2021
Lithuania expels two Belarusian diplomats, says foreign ministry
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania is expelling two Belarusian diplomats, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday, saying their activities were "incompatible with diplomatic status". "With this ...
May 28, 2021
Funds recommended cutting equity exposure in May to lowest level this year
By Tushar Goenka BENGALURU (Reuters) - Funds recommended the lowest equity exposure this year in May, citing risks from the expected pull-and-push between reflation trades and dovish central banks, bu...
May 28, 2021
Croatia to buy 12 French Dassault Rafale fighter jets
ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia will buy 12 French Dassault Rafale fighter jets to modernise its air force in a deal worth 999 million euros ($1.22 billion), Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Friday....
May 28, 2021
Patents are needed to develop medicines for future pandemics – Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged G20 countries to fund the COVAX initiative to provide COVID-19 vaccines to the world's poorer countries, but stressed that patent protection wa...
May 28, 2021
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