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Updated: Queen sprains back, misses Remembrance Sunday event

Sunday, 14 November 2021, 12:17 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Queen Elizabeth II has sprained her back and did not attend the Remembrance Sunday service in central London to remember Britain’s war dead, Buckingham Palace said Sunday. ...

Nations compromise on coal to strike UN climate agreement

Sunday, 14 November 2021, 07:31 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Almost 200 nations accepted a compromise deal Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it contained a last-minute change that watered down crucial language about...

EU authorizes 2 medicines for people at risk of severe Covid-19

Friday, 12 November 2021, 06:21 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two new medicines against the coronavirus for people at risk of severe disease. In a statement on Thursday, the EU drug...

South Africa's last apartheid president F. W. de Klerk dies

Thursday, 11 November 2021, 12:01 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age...

Man with knife threatens passers-by in Norway, is shot dead

Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 12:23 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

A man reportedly armed with a knife threatened passers-by on the streets of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, on Tuesday, before being shot dead by police, officials said. Norwegian media published...

EU drug agency looking at data on Merck's Covid-19 pill

Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 08:48 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The European Union's medicines agency on Monday began reviewing Merck's COVID-19 treatment pill so that it can swiftly advise national drug authorities in the 27-nation bloc that want to begin using...

German Covid infection rate at new high as vaccinations slow

Monday, 8 November 2021, 11:10 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Germany's coronavirus infection rate climbed to its highest recorded level yet on Monday as what officials have called a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” gathers pace. The national...

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