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EU regulator recommends Pfizer's Covid pill be authorized

Friday, 28 January 2022, 07:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The European Medicines Agency has recommended that Pfizer's coronavirus antiviral drug be authorized for use in the 27-nation European Union, the first time the agency has recommended a pill for...

6 dead, 30 missing after migrant boat sinks off Tunisia

Friday, 28 January 2022, 07:26 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

At least six Africans trying to migrate to Europe died and an estimated 30 were missing in the Mediterranean Sea after their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia on Thursday, according to...

New Italy president still elusive after 4th round of voting

Friday, 28 January 2022, 07:24 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Lawmakers and regional representatives failed for a fourth day Thursday to find consensus on a new Italian president, even after the threshold for victory passed to a simple majority for the first...

England lifts Covid restrictions as omicron threat recedes

Thursday, 27 January 2022, 07:32 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Most coronavirus restrictions including mandatory face masks were lifted in England on Thursday, after Britain’s government said its vaccine booster rollout successfully reduced serious illness...

As world marks Holocaust, some survivors in Israel struggle

Thursday, 27 January 2022, 07:25 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Several dozen octogenarians, bundled against the cold, chattered in Russian and Hebrew as they picked through heaps of carrots, onions and grapefruit in a Jerusalem courtyard. Nearly all of them...

Record weekly Covid cases last week but deaths stable - WHO

Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 12:09 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The World Health Organization said there were 21 million new coronavirus cases reported globally last week, the highest weekly number of COVID-19 cases recorded since the pandemic began. The number of...

UK government holds breath as it awaits 'partygate' report

Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 10:45 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is bracing for the conclusions of an investigation into allegations of lockdown-breaching parties, a document that could help him end weeks of scandal and discontent, or...

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