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By Moira Warburton TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario, Canada's most populous province, is weighing an extension of school closures, as some 20% of the region's children under the age of 13 currently tested ...

(Reuters) - WestJet Airlines said on Thursday it had denied 10 passengers from boarding a flight for lacking the proper test for the novel coronavirus, just after a Canadian government requirement tha...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods on Thursday unveiled a management shakeup as the world's largest pork processor and its new chief executive deal with the ripple effects of a pandemic-led drop in ...

By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Shares of Tesla surged to a record high on Thursday, with the electric car maker's stock market value briefly exceeding Facebook's for the first time. The company led by ...

(Reuters) - Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans on Thursday said he believes the Fed will likely hold rates near zero until 2024 to give inflation time to return to 2%. "With continuations...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain became the fourth Western European country to pass 2 million cumulative COVID-19 cases, health ministry data showed on Thursday, while the rate of infection continued to climb...

By Gabriella Borter and Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - The woman shot dead by police during Wednesday's siege of the U.S. Capitol was identified by police as Ashli Babbitt, a U.S. Air Force veteran whose ...

By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's two biggest pharmacy chains Clicks Group and Dis-Chem Pharmacies said they plan to offer COVID-19 shots at their stores and provide storage an...

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's defence ministry on Thursday denied mounting claims that a French air strike killed civilians attending a wedding, insisting that only Islamist militants were hit. The precis...

LONDON (Reuters) - The head of England's National Health Service reassured people that they would get their second COVID vaccinations after some appointments were cancelled in order to prioritise givi...