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U.S. to impose travel curbs on eight southern African countries over new COVID-19 variant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will restrict travel to the United States from eight southern African countries effective Monday over concerns about a new COVID-19 variant found in Sou...
Nov 26, 2021
Alpine skiing-Snowstorm wipes out first Alpine World Cup downhill
LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) - Heavy snowfall forced the cancellation of the opening men's Alpine Ski World Cup downhill on Friday. The World Cup speed season got off to a sputtering start with fina...
Nov 26, 2021
Paris makes mask wearing outdoors mandatory at public gatherings
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris has made the wearing of face masks outside mandatory again at public gatherings as the COVID-19 infection rate in the French capital soars, police said. The police prefecture s...
Nov 26, 2021
Canada closing borders to citizens from seven southern African nations over COVID-19 fears
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is closing its borders to the citizens of seven southern African nations to help stop the spread of a newly identified variant of COVID-19, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos t...
Nov 26, 2021
Rwanda reinstates 24-hour quarantine for all foreign visitors over COVID-19 variant
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rwanda will reinstate a mandatory 24-hour quarantine for all visitors arriving from Nov. 28 after the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant, its health ministry said on Friday. "Foll...
Nov 26, 2021
Putin gets Armenian and Azeri leaders to agree to work on defining border
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed at talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to work towards demarcating the border between their two countries after a war ...
Nov 26, 2021
Facebook offers remedies to address EU concerns about Kustomer deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook has offered remedies in a bid to secure EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of U.S. customer service startup Kustomer, a European Commission filing showed. Facebook...
Nov 26, 2021
WhatsApp wins approval to double payments offering to 40 million users in India – source
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - WhatsApp has won regulatory approval to double the number of users on its payments service in India to 40 million, a source with direct knowledge told Reuters on ...
Nov 26, 2021
U.S. trade chief Tai pushes post-Trump vision for WTO ahead of Geneva talks
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has a vision for reforming the World Trade Organization: rekindling the dynamism that marked its creation in 1995, when c...
Nov 26, 2021
WHO designates COVID variant found in South Africa as “of concern”
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday designated a new COVID-19 variant detected in South Africa with a large number of mutations as being "of concern," the fifth vari...
Nov 26, 2021
