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Mexico City to accelerate vaccinations as COVID infections, hospitalizations rise
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City's government will speed up COVID-19 vaccinations to its more than 9 million inhabitants starting next week as infections and hospitalizations have risen significant...
Jul 16, 2021
UK scraps planned relaxation of France quarantine rules
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government said on Friday that it was scrapping a planned relaxation of COVID quarantine rules for travellers from France, which had been due to take effect on Monday. Pre...
Jul 16, 2021
Poland’s Tusk says conflicts with EU could eventually end the bloc
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland and Hungary's conflicts with the European Union could start a process that results in the bloc falling apart, former European Council President Donald Tusk warned on Friday, ...
Jul 16, 2021
Actor Ashton Kutcher backed out of Virgin Galactic space flight
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ten years ago actor Ashton Kutcher was planning to be among the first people to ride on Virgin Galactic's private spaceship, but he changed his mind after having children with ...
Jul 16, 2021
Biden taps former senator Udall to be U.S. ambassador to New Zealand
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will nominate Tom Udall, a former U.S. senator who represented New Mexico, to be U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, the White House said on Friday. (Report...
Jul 16, 2021
Iraqi TV shows suspect confess to murdering prominent advisor
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi state television aired a video on Friday in which a police officer said he led a group that gunned down well-known analyst and government advisor Hisham al-Hashemi a year ago...
Jul 16, 2021
U.S. appeals court rules in favor of environmental groups in biofuel case
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on Friday in favor of environmental groups who argued against the U.S. government's conclus...
Jul 16, 2021
U.S. administers 336.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 336,604,158 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 389,359,835 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Jul 16, 2021
FDA investigating carcinogen found in recalled J&J sunscreen products
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it is investigating the root cause of a cancer-causing chemical found in some of Johnson & Johnson's recalled sunscreen products. The d...
Jul 16, 2021
Censorship circumvention tool helps 1.4 million Cubans get internet access
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Psiphon Inc's freely available internet censorship circumvention tool has about helped nearly 1.4 million Cubans this week gain access to websites, the compa...
Jul 16, 2021
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