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EU moves toward stricter export controls for COVID vaccines

The European Union is moving toward stricter export controls to ensure more COVID-19 shot supplies for the bloc that should boost its flagging vaccine drive.

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Germany pulls strict Easter virus shutdown amid backlash

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday reversed a planned strict Easter shutdown, AFP reported, citing the chief of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, amid massive criticism of the gov

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Hungary: EU sanctions on China 'meaningless, pretentious, harmful'

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto. /VCG Hungary finds the European Union (EU)'s sanctions on Chinese citizens to be meaningless, pretentious and harmful, Hungaria

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Tajik Olympic hammer throw champion Nazarov gets two-year doping ban

Dilshod Nazarov of Tajikistan celebrates during the medal ceremony for the Men's Hammer Throw at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 20, 2016. /CFP Olympic hammer thro

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Tajik Olympic hammer throw champion Nazarov gets two-year doping ban

Dilshod Nazarov of Tajikistan celebrates during the medal ceremony for the Men's Hammer Throw at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 20, 2016. /CFP Olympic hammer thro

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Africa's confirmed COVID-19 cases surpass 4.04 mln: Africa CDC

FILE PHOTO: Airline officials cleaning loaded carriers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos, on September 5, 2020. The number of accumulative confirmed COVID-19 cases

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EU tourism halved in 2020 amid pandemic: Eurostat

A woman takes photos near the Eiffel Tower at the Trocadero Palace, Paris, France, May 15, 2020. (Xinhua/Gao Jing) The European tourism industry was hit dramatically by the COVID-19 pandemic i

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Coronavirus: Africa's infections surpass 4 million mark

A local resident receives the COVID-19 vaccine in Zomba, Malawi, on March 11, 2021. /Xinhua The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 4,025,390 as of Sunday evening, the Afr

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Irish foreign minister says UK guilty of 'perverse nationalism'

Ireland’s foreign minister Simon Coveney said on Saturday that Britain was demonstrating “perverse nationalism” by seeking to reach a trade deal with the United States

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HKSAR government hits back at European Commission report

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government hit back at criticism in a report by the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for

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Africa's confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 4 mln mark: Africa CDC

VCG The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 4,005,204 as of Friday morning, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.The Africa CDC, the spe

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EU regulator approves J&J's single-shot COVID-19 vaccine for use

VCG The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Thursday approved Johnson Johnson's single-shot COVID-19 vaccine, making it the fourth licensed vaccine for use in the bloc.Others that have already

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Migrants at southwest U.S. border grow to pre-pandemic numbers

The number of children and adults crossing the southern U.S. border has grown to number not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic.Numbers grew more than 100 percent in the first two months of 20

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Africa's confirmed COVID-19 infections pass 3.98 million

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 3,982,844 as of Wednesday noon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. /Africa CDC The number of

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Over 3.55 million people recovers from COVID19 in Africa

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 3,975,045 as of Tuesday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. /VCG The number of confirme

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EU may block export of some COVID-19 vaccines for jab ramp-up

The European Union may block further exports of some COVID-19 vaccines, following the Italian government's decision to block the export of 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, European

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EU executive "surprised" by Belgium's travel ban extension

Passengers are seen at the Brussels Central Station in Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 22, 2021. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng) The European Commission was "surprised" that Belgium extended a ban on non-essenti