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U.S. FDA authorizes COVID-19 vaccine boosters for the immunocompromised
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for people with compromised immune systems. A few other coun...
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Japan issues highest risk alerts in Hiroshima due to torrential rains
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Friday issued the most serious level 5 risk alerts in the western prefecture of Hiroshima, citing unprecedented rains in the region and imminent risk of floods and other dis...
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China’s new U.S. envoy stresses importance of Taiwan in first high level meeting
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's newly appointed ambassador in Washington stressed the utmost importance of Taiwan in the Sino-U.S. relationship during his first meeting with a top U.S. official since assu...
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Tennis-Konta withdraws from Montreal hardcourt event due to injury
(Reuters) - Britain's Johanna Konta withdrew from her last-16 match against Coco Gauff at the Canadian Open on Thursday due to a knee injury, organisers said, handing her American opponent a walkover....
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Kansas City Southern may delay Canadian National deal vote
(Reuters) - Kansas City Southern said on Thursday it has turned down a $27 billion bid from Canadian Pacific Railway and will delay a shareholder vote on a $29 billion deal to sell itself to Canadian ...
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Blinken discusses Afghanistan security situation with Canada, Germany, and NATO
(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with his Canadian and German counterparts and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg to discuss plans to reduce violence in Afghanistan amid a rapi...
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Former Myanmar strongman Than Shwe hospitalised with COVID – media
(Reuters) - Than Shwe, the former head of a junta that ruled Myanmar for nearly two decades, has been hospitalised in the capital Naypyitaw and is in a stable condition after being tested for the coro...
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S.Korea, Chinese refiners snap up U.S. sour crude -sources
By Devika Krishna Kumar and Florence Tan NEW YORK/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - South Korean and Chinese refiners have snapped up at least 5 million barrels of U.S. Mars crude loading in September, taking adv...
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Asian equities retreat after world stocks hit new record
By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) - Most Asian equity markets continued to ignore record highs hit elsewhere in the world and fell in early trading on Friday, though Australia bucked the trend. MSCI's ...
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IMF keeping ‘close watch’ on Belarus after calls to limit reserve funds for country
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday it was monitoring the situation in Belarus closely, amid calls for the global lender to limit disbursemen...
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