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OSLO (Reuters) – Emergency response teams raced on Tuesday to prevent a Dutch freighter adrift in the North Sea from sinking and causing an oil spill off the coast of Norway after …

An Iranian ship believed to be used by Iran’s elite military force was attacked near Saudi and Yemeni waters on Tuesday, US and Iranian officials said, in an apparent escalation of the …

This is not the time to consider a full reopening of the German economy, but rather the time to be tough and keep coronavirus infections low, Germany’s finance minister told CNBC, while …

Australia said on Wednesday it was asked by the European Union to withdraw export permit applications for the Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca PLC, escalating its dispute with Europe over access to pre-purchased …

CANBERRA / BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union on Tuesday denied blocking shipments of 3.1 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to Australia, as the bloc intensifies scrutiny of vaccine exports to …

National fears about contracting the coronavirus have fallen to the lowest level since a month after the pandemic began last year, according to a new survey. The Gallup poll released Tuesday found …

The brutal increase in deaths from COVID-19 in Brazil will soon surpass the worst of a record January wave in the United States, scientists predicted, with deaths for the first time rising …

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded a uniform contract for the Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to a Chinese textile company that has an affiliated factory in …

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s brutal surge in COVID-19 deaths will soon surpass the worst of a record January wave in the United States, scientists predicted, with deaths rising to more …

But while visiting Owerri, Mr. Adamu was fired as police chief by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. A month passed before his term ended and the reasons for the dismissal were unclear. It …