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By Daren Butler, Nevzat DevranogluISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - The Turkish lira weakened more than 1% against the dollar on Monday, after briefly tumbling to 6.47 overnight in what market watchers described as a “flash crash” as Japanese…
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By Julie Steenhuysen, Kate KellandCHICAGO (Reuters) - Chris Murray, a University of Washington disease expert whose projections on COVID-19 infections and deaths are closely followed worldwide, is changing his assumptions about the…
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It is not surprising that just right now, the discussion about how much Russian foreign policy should be involved in world and regional affairs is intensifying. There are very convincing calls…
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A medical worker holds a syringe with the Gam-COVID-Vac (Sputnik V) Covid-19 vaccine.Alexander Reka | TASS | Getty ImagesAs the European Union struggles to ramp up its rollout of coronavirus vaccines across the 27 member bloc, Russia's…
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus and its European Union partners are working to rein in Turkey’s “expansionist policy” in the eastern Mediterranean amid heightened tensions over an offshore search for hydrocarbons, the island nation’s…
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PARIS (AP) — In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at…
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BRUSSELS (AP) — More than four years after helping set Britain’s course out of the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is headed to EU headquarters to try to finish the job.With less than a month until the U.K.’s economic…
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Ursula von der Leyen has reassured EU leaders she will ban coronavirus vaccines from leaving the EU if suppliers such as AstraZeneca fail to deliver again, as she faced questions over her handling of shortages. The European commission…
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A woman wearing a face mask looks out from a window of a bus, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in St. Albans, Britain, October 8, 2020. REUTERS/Peter CziborraLONDON (Reuters) - Health minister Matt Hancock…
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Brussels has put six EU member states on notice that their tight Covid border restrictions, including exit and entry bans, should be lifted over fears of a wider breakdown in the bloc’s free movement of people and goods. Belgium,…
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