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LONDON (Reuters) - 1/ SNB CONUNDRUM It's tough being the Swiss National Bank: After months of battling safe-haven inflows, markets want to know what the SNB will do with its 914 billion-Swiss franc ($...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Vienna's hospitals are close to the level of strain from COVID-19 reached last autumn that forced a lockdown to be imposed, Austria's health minister said on Friday, days before a d...

By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium still has time to avert a third wave of coronavirus infections, the country's health ministry said ahead of a government announcement of new measures to ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi group said on Friday it hit a facility belonging to the state-controlled oil giant Saudi Aramco in Riyadh, in an attack comprising six drones. Yahya Sarea, a spokesman...

(Reuters) - Cameroon's health ministry has suspended administration of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine it was scheduled to receive on March 20 as part of the global vaccines sharing scheme COVAX. The m...

(Reuters) - Blackstone Group Inc, the world's largest manager of alternative assets such as private equity and real estate, said on Friday it closed Blackstone Growth, its inaugural growth equity fund...

BEIT DAJAN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian on Friday during stone-throwing clashes in the occupied West Bank, a Reuters witness said. The man was shot in the head and tak...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson's multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment, Ponvory, the company said on Friday. The approval was granted to the U.S. drugmake...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Georgia's health ministry said on Friday that coronavirus vaccinations with the AstraZeneca shot would continue only in fully-fledged medical centres following the death of a nurse,...

By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The beaches of Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro will be closed this weekend, according to a municipal decree enacted on Friday, as the local government se...