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Israeli businesses lost $368 million during Gaza fighting

By Steven Scheer

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli businesses lost 1.2 billion shekels ($368 million) during 11 days of fighting between (More…)

Israelis readjust after truce stops rockets raining down – for now

By Eli Berlzon

ASHKELON, Israel (Reuters) – Tidying up her building’s bomb shelter after 11 days of conflict when Palestinian (More…)

Britain to work with WHO on ‘pandemic radar’ to track diseases

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will work with the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop a “pandemic radar” system to identify new (More…)

Defying U.S. sanctions, Russian cybersecurity firm aims for 2022 IPO

By Alexander Marrow

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies is pressing ahead with plans for an initial public (More…)

Kazakhstan rolls out app to control access to public areas

ALMATY (Reuters) – Kazakhstan is rolling out an app which it hopes will limit the spread of COVID-19 by restricting (More…)

UK daily COVID cases highest in a month, Indian variant rising sharply

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain reported its highest daily total of new coronavirus infections in a month while cases of a (More…)

U.S. plays down prospect of North Korea initiative at Moon summit

By David Brunnstrom and Jarrett Renshaw

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -South Korean President Moon Jae-in has been hoping to use his first (More…)

Soaring international prices aggravate Cuban food crisis

By Marc Frank

HAVANA (Reuters) – Soaring international food and shipping prices and low domestic production are further squeezing import-dependent (More…)

Brazilian drugmaker completes first batch of Russian COVID-19 vaccine

By Leonardo Benassatto

GUARULHOS, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian pharmaceutical company UniĆ£o Quimica completed production of its first batch of the Sputnik (More…)

Putin threatens to ‘knock out the teeth’ of foreign aggressors

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow would “knock out the teeth” of any power that (More…)