Britain says 6,000 more people needed for trial of Merck COVID pill
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday it needed to recruit 6,000 more people onto a trial of Merck’s COVID-19 antivir..
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Delivery race among Indian grocery startups brings road safety risks
By Aditya Kalra and Abhirup Roy NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian grocery startups are luring tech-savvy customers with the promise of deliv..
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Oil prices hover around 2014 highs, supported by supply concerns
By Naveen Thukral and Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil steadied on Thursday, clawing back losses earlier in the session, as s..
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Oil rises to 7-year high as Turkey outage adds to tight supply outlook
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose for a fourth day to a seven-year high as an outage on a pipeline from Iraq ..
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New Zealand navy vessels with supplies to reach tsunami-hit Tonga on Friday
By Michelle Nichols, Kirsty Needham, Tom Westbrook and Praveen Menon (Reuters) -Two New Zealand navy vessels carrying disaster relief ..
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Oil struggles to hold gains amid mixed demand view
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices slipped on Thursday, trimming big gains from the previous two sessions, amid unc..
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Oil prices hold firm amid hopes for economic growth
By Koustav Samanta and Sonali Paul SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices steadied on Wednesday, following steep gains in the previous sessio..
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Djokovic confirms error made on Australian travel entry form
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic said on Wednesday an incorrect answer was made on his Australian entry docum..
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PKN Orlen says talks on sale of Lotos assets not finalised yet
GDANSK (Reuters) – Poland’s top energy group PKN Orlen denied a media report it had picked buyers for assets of Grupa Loto..
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Cricket-Australia storm rattles England after drizzle delay
SYDNEY (Reuters) -England lost both openers and skipper Joe Root in a fiery storm of pacebowling on the third morning of the fourth As..
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Oil falls from one-month high after U.S. fuel inventory surge
By Florence Tan and Naveen Thukral SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices lost ground on Thursday, falling more than $1 a barrel from their h..
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Outcry as Australia bars Djokovic over vaccination status
By Courtney Walsh and John Mair MELBOURNE (Reuters) – World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic was denied entry into Austra..
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South Korea to appeal court order exempting private schools from vaccine passes
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – The South Korean government said on Wednesday it will appeal against a court order to exclude ..
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Oil prices slip as U.S. fuel inventories rise
By Mohi Narayan NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Oil prices dropped on Wednesday after U.S. fuel stockpiles climbed, indicating declining demand i..
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Beijing meets state air quality standards for first time in 2021
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese capital Beijing met state air quality standards for the first time last year, officials said on ..
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COVID patients showing less severe symptoms, UK vaccine minister says
LONDON (Reuters) – People being hospitalised with COVID-19 in the United Kingdom are broadly showing less severe symptoms than b..
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U.S. FDA backs Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster shot for 12- to 15-year-olds
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Ankur Banerjee WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday authorized the https://ww..
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Siloed Data & Time Intensive Reporting Removed from Construction Projects by Aphex Update
Digital construction planning platform Aphex puts data in the hands of the teams building UK’s largest infrastructure projects w..
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Samsung, Micron warn China’s Xian lockdown could disrupt memory chip manufacturing
By Joyce Lee and Manya Saini (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology, two of the world’s largest memory chip makers..
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U.S. coronavirus cases hit new high, hospitalizations creep up
(Reuters) -The average number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States hit a record high of 258,312 over the past sev..
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Australia seeks to ease COVID-19 test rules as cases hit records
By Renju Jose and Sonali Paul SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia will seek to make urgent changes to COVID-19 testing rules ..
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Dollar firms in soft holiday trading, outlook bullish
By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) – The dollar inched up on Wednesday as a recent rally in shares showed signs of petering out, b..
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U.S., Russian officials set for security talks on January 10 – U.S. official
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and Russian officials will take part in security talks on Jan. 10 as the countri..
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Australia COVID numbers hit a peak as Omicron outbreak strains domestic politics
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia recorded another record surge in COVID-19 infections on Tuesday as an outbreak of the highly infect..
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Gazprom says it will not sell gas on its spot platform this week
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian gas giant Gazprom does not plan to hold auctions for spot gas sales on its Electronic Sales Platform ..
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Vaccine and infection data mark small victories in Omicron battle
By James Macharia Chege and Josephine Mason JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) -Two vaccine makers said their shots protected against Omicr..
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Scotland reports fewer COVID-19 hospitalizations with Omicron
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – In Scotland, the Omicron variant of the coronavirus appears less likely to result in COVID-19 hospita..
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COVID-testing rules spark Christmas travel chaos in Australia as cases hit records
By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s COVID-19 testing facilities were severely stretched on Thursday amid a record..
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UK reduces COVID-19 self-isolation to 7 days for most in England
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government said that from Wednesday it was reducing the COVID-19 self-isolation period to seven d..
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Sky no longer the limit for Germany’s ‘Mainhattan’ skyscraper boom
By John O’Donnell FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Towering above a nondescript office quarter of downtown Frankfurt, a 47th floor th..
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EU regulator backs Novavax shot as region’s fifth COVID-19 vaccine
By Pushkala Aripaka (Reuters) – The European Union’s drug regulator on Monday approved use of the COVID-19 vaccine from U...
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Pro-Beijing ‘patriots’ sweep Hong Kong election with record low turnout
By Edmond Ng and Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) – Pro-Beijing candidates swept to victory in an overhauled “patriots”..
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Sterling erases post-BoE gains as Omicron weighs
LONDON (Reuters) – The British pound slipped to a three-day low on Monday, nearing $1.32 versus the greenback as a broad risk-of..
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Oil prices slide as rapid Omicron spread dims fuel demand outlook
By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices slumped 3% on Monday as surging cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant in Euro..
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Soccer-England drawn with Italy and Germany in Nations League
NYON, Switzerland (Reuters) -England were handed a tough draw for the 2022-23 UEFA Nations League after they were grouped alongside Eu..
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World coal power demand to hit new high after China, India, U.S. surge – IEA
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Rising consumption in China, India and the United States could bring global coal-fired power demand to a ne..
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Chinese envoy to Japan: calls on Tokyo for support of Beijing Olympics
TOKYO (Reuters) -China’s envoy to Japan, Kong Xuanyou, on Thursday said the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics had been unfortunat..
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