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Russian military build-up near Ukraine numbers more than 150,000 troops, EU’s Borrell says

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia has concentrated more than 150,000 troops on Ukraine’s border and in annexed Crimea, the EU’s top (More…)

New UK challenge trial studies if people can catch coronavirus again

By Reuters Staff

LONDON (Reuters) – British scientists on Monday launched a trial which will deliberately expose participants who have (More…)

Clean crude? Oil firms use offsets to claim green barrels

By Timothy Gardner, Nerijus Adomaitis and Rod Nickel

(Reuters) -In January, Occidental Petroleum announced it had accomplished something no oil (More…)

Brazil scrambles to secure sedatives as hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19

By Reuters Staff

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – An emergency shipment of sedatives needed to intubate severely ill COVID-19 patients arrived (More…)

Castro confirms he is passing Cuban Communist Party leadership to new generation

By Sarah Marsh and Nelson Acosta

HAVANA (Reuters) -Raul Castro confirmed he was handing over the leadership of the all-powerful (More…)

Opponents of Myanmar coup form unity government, aim for ‘federal democracy’

(Reuters) -Opponents of Myanmar’s junta announced a National Unity Government on Friday including ousted members of parliament and leaders of (More…)

COVID-19 cases in Canada’s most populous province could treble: CBC

By David Ljunggren

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Modeling shows that cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, could treble (More…)

Analysis: U.S. announcement of pullout from Afghanistan undermines chances of peace

By Hamid Shalizi, Charlotte Greenfield and Jibran Ahmad

KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s announced pullout of troops from (More…)

Rome funeral workers protest as coffins pile up in cemeteries

ROME (Reuters) – Undertakers protested on Friday against a massive backlog of coffins building up at Rome cemeteries, saying city (More…)

‘You can’t clone us’: Polish doctors cry for help as COVID deaths spike

By Joanna Plucinska and Alicja Ptak

KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) – When the pandemic began last year, Kinga Szlachcic-Wyroba, an anesthesiologist (More…)