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Georgia to submit bid to join EU on Thursday – TASS
(Reuters) - Georgia plans on Thursday to submit an application to join the European Union, Russia's TASS news agency quoted the former Soviet republic's ruling party as saying on Wednesday. (Reporting...
Mar 02, 2022
White House to work with Congress on additional COVID funds -Zients
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House will work with Congress in coming weeks to secure additional funding needed to prepare and manage COVID now and long-term, White House COVID-19 Response Coordina...
Mar 02, 2022
PAHO says women disproportionately affected by COVID-19 pandemic
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Wednesday said that across the Americas the COVID-19 pandemic has placed the most vulnerable at greater risk and in a region rife wi...
Mar 02, 2022
Biden heads to Wisconsin after delivering his first State of the Union speech
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is traveling to Wisconsin on Wednesday to speak about his bipartisan infrastructure law and how it will help build roads and bridges and deli...
Mar 02, 2022
Turkey eases coronavirus-related restrictions – minister
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey eased the majority of coronavirus-related restrictions on Wednesday, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said, almost two years after the first case was identified in th...
Mar 02, 2022
U.S. envoy to U.N. urges the world to join reprimanding Russia over Ukraine invasion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia is preparing to increase the brutality of its campaign against Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said on Wednesday, urging the members of the General Assembl...
Mar 02, 2022
Russian inflation accelerates to 9.05% as rouble slips
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Annual consumer inflation in Russia accelerated to 9.05% as of Feb. 25 from 8.84% a week earlier, the economy ministry said on Wednesday, climbing further above an official 4% targe...
Mar 02, 2022
Ukrainian deputy minister draws standing ovation at UN rights body
GENEVA (Reuters) - Ukraine's deputy foreign minister drew a standing ovation at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, in contrast to a walk-out a day earlier by more than 100 diplomats...
Mar 02, 2022
U.S. launches ‘KleptoCapture’ task force aimed at Russian oligarchs
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday launched a task force known as "KleptoCapture" aimed at straining the finances of Russia's oligarchs as the United Sta...
Mar 02, 2022
Biden says nothing is off the table when asked about banning Russian oil and gas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that nothing was off the table when asked about whether the United States would ban Russian oil and gas after Moscow's invasion of Ukr...
Mar 02, 2022
