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WHO convenes emergency committee early over coronavirus variants

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The World Health Organization's emergency committee will meet two weeks early on Thursday to discuss the new coronavirus variants from South Africa and Britain that have rapidly spread to at least 50 countries and sparked widespread alarm. The newly identified variants, which appear to be significantly more infectious than the strain that emerged in China in 2019, come as spiking virus numbers force many nations to enforce new lockdowns...

Cafe, croissant, worms? EU agency says worms safe to eat

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The vaunted Mediterranean diet and French gastronomy are getting some competition: The European Union's food safety agency says worms are safe to eat. Thus, the European Union has now thrown its weight behind worms in much the same way the United Nations has. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in 2013 championed edible bugs as a low-fat, high-protein food for people, pets and livestock that are good for the environment and help feed the hungry...

Beyond blackface: Paris Opera tackles race cliches in repertoire

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Reacting to Neef's remarks, Le Monde's editor-in-chief Michel Guerrin warned that France was "slowly going down the American road, consisting of the runaway self-censorship of artists and programmers in order to avoid trouble."..

Historic snowfall chills Madrid slum to the bones

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Days after its heaviest snowfall in 50 years, Madrid woke on Tuesday to its lowest temperatures in decades, with the mercury plummeting to minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit)...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg to feature on Swedish stamps

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg is to feature on a set of stamps issued by Sweden's postal service. She will join a hall of fame of Swedish personalities, from Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Greta Garbo, who have been depicted on the country's postage stamps...

Dutch government quits over child benefits scandal

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Scottish nationalists set for record majority, boosting independence push

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AstraZeneca files bid for EU vaccine approval

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AstraZeneca and Oxford University have applied for authorisation for their coronavirus vaccine in the European Union with a decision possible by January 29, The European Medicines Agency said on Tuesday. The jab would be the third available for the 27-nation EU after the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna drugs, as the bloc struggles to speed up the rollout...

Russia says 1.5 million vaccinated globally with Sputnik

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Belgium coronavirus deaths top 20,000

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Belgium counts all deaths of people who have had a positive Covid-19 test among virus fatalities, giving it one of the world's highest death rates with 1,725 per 100,000 people, according to an AFP tally...

Kyrgyzstan's Sadyr Japarov: From prison to presidency

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Germany reports record Covid-19 deaths, concerns about new variant grow

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Germany reported a record 1,188 daily Covid-19 deaths on Friday, only days after further tightening a national lockdown amid fears that a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus may put additional strain on struggling hospitals...

Covid-19 vaccine developed by German research group fails in early trial

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Russians see US democracy 'limping' after Capitol stormed

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EU regulator approves Moderna coronavirus vaccine

9 days ago

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The EU's medicines watchdog approved a coronavirus jab by US firm Moderna on Wednesday, giving a shot in the arm for Europe's slow-moving vaccine roll-out. The vaccine is the second to be authorised by the European Medicines Agency for the 27-nation bloc after Pfizer-BioNTech's got the green light in late December...

Denmark bars South African residents over new virus strain

9 days ago

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The South African strain and another which has emerged in Britain are said to be more infectious versions of the virus, and have prompted widespread concern. Denmark's decision came into effect Wednesday and will last until January 17...

Germany agrees to extend coronavirus lockdown until Jan 31

10 days ago

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that she has agreed with state governors to extend the country's current lockdown by three weeks until Jan. 31. Merkel said they also are tightening curbs on social contacts, in line with measures imposed at the beginning of the pandemic in March. And they called for new restrictions on movement for people living in areas with particularly high infection rates...

Covid-19: France vows faster vaccine rollout after criticism

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Germany heading towards extension of hard lockdown

11 days ago

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Chancellor Angela Merkel and the state premiers are scheduled on Tuesday to discuss a possible extension of the lockdown beyond Jan. 10. Some, including Bavaria's premier Markus Soeder, have already spoken in favour of an extension...

Germany set to extend lockdown until January 31

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Explainer: Where are we in the Covid-19 vaccine race?

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Blow to global vaccine drive as Pfizer delays deliveries

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Welcome to Brexit - now hand us your sandwich

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Britons arriving in the Netherlands since the start of the year have found that leaving the European Union might have cost them more than they realised, including their lunch. "Do you have meat on all the bread?", a Dutch customs officer asks a man who has just arrived in the port of Hook of Holland, as he holds up his foil-wrapped sandwich. "Yeah? OK, then we take them all, I'm sorry. Welcome to the Brexit, sir."..

In Greek city, segregated graves extend Covid-19 isolation

3 days ago

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When Gunseer died in late August, her body was wrapped in two plastic bags and placed in a shrink-wrapped casket. Under rules set by city authorities, she wasn't buried next to her late husband but in a section of a cemetery reserved for people infected with the virus. Her grave remains off-limits to visitors...

Witness remembers 'model' Nuremberg trials, 75 years on

4 days ago

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Adolf Hitler's number two Goering and ex-deputy leader Hess were among a host of top Nazis convicted by the court, with the former committing suicide before he was due to be hanged and the latter dying in jail in 1987...

Germany's coronavirus deaths toll tops 40,000

5 days ago

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In her weekly video message on Saturday, Chancellor Angela Merkel said the full impact of socialising over the Christmas and New Year's period was yet to show up in the statistics...

Kyrgyzstan's presidential vote: How did it get here?

5 days ago

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By night-time the protests had morphed into clashes with police, with one protester killed as several prominent politicians, including ex-leader Almazbek Atambayev and populist Japarov were freed from jail...

Donald Trump presidency set for an 'ugly ending': Silvio Berlusconi

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WHO blames spiked Italy report on error, 'overlooked' rule

7 days ago

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The World Health Organization denied Thursday that Italian officials pressured it to spike a report into Italy's coronavirus response but said the UN agency should have shared the document with Italy's government before publishing it. Dr Hans Kluge, head of WHO's Europe office, said the agency's procedures had been “overlooked,” as he sought to explain WHO's decision to pull the report from its website a day after it was posted May 13..

WHO Europe calls for intensified measures over 'alarming' virus variant

8 days ago

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"This is an alarming situation, which means that for a short period of time we need to do more than we have done and to intensify the public health and social measures to be certain we can flatten the steep vertical line in some countries," the WHO's regional director for Europe Hans Kluge told a press conference, referring to the new variant first discovered in the UK...

'No law can order us': Greek Christians defy Covid ban on Epiphany services

9 days ago

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Greek Christian churches held Epiphany services on Wednesday, openly defying government coronavirus restrictions that banned public gatherings including religious ceremonies on one of the most important days of the Orthodox calendar...

Vaccine dosing intervals: What countries are doing around the world

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Masks, tests, batches: Locked-down Greece swears in cabinet

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A current two-month lockdown officially ends Thursday, but government officials say many restrictions will be extended to allow for a successful rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. The program started just before the new year and is being significantly ramped up this week...

Italy extends virus curbs, delays high school start

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UK rolls out AstraZeneca shots but PM Johnson warns of 'tough, tough weeks' ahead

11 days ago

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Britain began vaccinating its population with Oxford University and AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot on Monday in a world first, racing to give protection to the elderly and vulnerable as a new surge of cases threatened to overwhelm hospitals...

France, under fire for slow vaccine rollout, hopes Moderna shots to arrive this week

11 days ago

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France, which has a strong anti-vaccination movement, started its inoculation campaign at the end of December, as did many other European countries. But it has only vaccinated hundreds since then, versus tens of thousands in Germany and more a million in Britain, which on Monday became the first country to roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca shot...

Lockdowns, curfews, alcohol bans as nations fight resurgent virus

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Amazon Bestseller: Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors - Allen C. Benello

4 years ago

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Pope Francis, former Pope Benedict get Covid-19 vaccine

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German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'

3 days ago

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Police in the northern city of Oldenburg "were able to arrest the alleged operator of the suspected world's largest illegal marketplace on the darknet, the DarkMarket, at the weekend," prosecutors said in a statement..

Amazon Bestseller: How to Make Money Trading with Charts - Ashwani Gujral

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How to make money in any market condition using price charts Intelligent traders are able to make money by following price charts, irrespective of whether the market is rising or falling — or simply moving sideways. So can you. This is the first comprehensive book on chart patterns and chart analysis using real-life examples from the Indian market. It explains every significant tradable pattern, buy and sell signal, and the use of important technical indicators with the help of more than 150 charts of Indian stocks: How to make big profits by identifying the ongoing trend and trading with the trend How to make mega profits by identifying impending trend reversals and catching big moves in the opposite direction How you can reap windfall profits by identifying and trading breakouts from continuation price patterns on charts..

Antonio Guterres to seek second five-year term as UN Secretary-General

3 days ago

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that he will be seeking a second five-year term as chief of the world organisation. President of the General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, had enquired last Friday about Guterres' intentions regarding a second mandate...

Amazon Bestseller: Swing Trading With Technical Analysis - Ravi Patel

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Italy reports 361 coronavirus deaths on Sunday, 18,627 new cases

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Amazon Bestseller: 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How To Find Them - Christopher Mayer

4 years ago

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This book is about 100-baggers. These are stocks that return $100 for every $1 invested. That means a $10,000 investment turns into $1 million. Chris Mayer can help you find them. It sounds like an outrageous quest with a wildly improbable chance of success. But when Mayer studied 100-baggers of the past, definite patterns emerged..

Covid-19: Twelve key milestones

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From the first cases in central China to vaccinations being rolled out a year later, here are a dozen key developments in the spread and subsequent fight against Covid-19...

Pope Francis 'astonished' by mob attack on US Capitol

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Pope Francis has told an Italian broadcaster that he was "astonished" by the mob attack at the U.S. Capitol due to the democratic traditions of the United States...

Cars swallowed by sinkhole outside Italy hospital

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'France is not letting China play anti-India games at UNSC', says Emmanuel Bonne

7 days ago

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France has been very supportive of India at the UNSC on the Kashmir issue, not allowing China to play any “procedural games”, a visiting senior French official said on Thursday. Emmanuel Bonne, the diplomatic advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron, said "What we say publicly, we say to the Chinese also privately, there is no ambiguity."..

Angela Merkel furious over Capitol mob, says Trump shares blame

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After eight years of Mali campaign, France seeks exit strategy

9 days ago

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Five French soldiers have been killed by roadside bombs in Mali over the past 10 days, bringing to 50 the number of troops killed across the Sahel since France launched a campaign to clear northern Mali of jihadists in January 2013...

WHO's Tedros 'very disappointed' China hasn't granted entry to coronavirus experts

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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday said that he was "very disappointed" that China has still not authorised the entry of a team of international experts to examine the origins of the coronavirus. The 10-strong team had been due to set off in early January as part of a long-awaited mission to probe early cases of the coronavirus reported a year ago...

Putin, Merkel discuss possible joint vaccine production

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France promises faster vaccine rollout after criticism

10 days ago

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The French campaign had rolled out just over 500 doses as of January 1, with critics calling that figure "a scandal" compared with the 200,000 people immunised in Germany in a similar timeframe, after the EU-wide rollout began a week ago...

Greece names first openly gay minister

11 days ago

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Nicholas Yatromanolakis, 44, was named as the new deputy minister of culture after being promoted from the position of general secretary at the ministry. The government retained its ministers of health and finance and most other key positions in the reshuffle...

Two French soldiers killed during mission in Mali

12 days ago

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The soldiers were participating in an intelligence mission in the Menaka region of northeastern Mali, as part of a larger operation aiming at fighting Islamist extremists in Africa's Sahel region. Islamic extremist rebels were forced from power in northern Mali after a 2013 French-led military operation...

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