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Canada says vaccine mandates work as Quebec's 'unvaxxed tax' leads to spike in first-dose appointments

One day after the Canadian province of Quebec announced it would financially penalize residents who are unvaccinated, the province's health minister said Wednesday firs

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Indonesia starts COVID boosters for elderly, others at risk

Indonesia kicked off a COVID-19 booster campaign for the general public on Wednesday, prioritizing third shots for the elderly and people with compromised immune system

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Brazil to vaccinate kids, stops short of demanding scripts

Vaccination of Brazilian children between the ages of 5 and 11 will begin in January, without the demand for prescriptions from doctors the government had previously si

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Ugandans must show COVID-19 vaccination proof to use public transport

FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers pictured before starting COVID-19 vaccinations I Kampala, Uganda on March 10, 2021. /Getty Images Uganda on Wednesday said all travelers using public transport a

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England to ease COVID-19 tests as Johnson hopes to 'ride out' Omicron

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses a briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic in Downing Street. /Jack Hill/Pool via Reuters UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to face lawmakers in parliam

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A whopping 4.5 million Americans quit their jobs in November

FILE: Americans in a supermarket in the U.S. /Xinhua Statistics from Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 4.5 million Americans voluntarily quit employment in November, pushing the quits rate

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The end of BlackBerry: support for classic smartphone discontinued

BlackBerry rapidly lost market share to phones like Apple's iPhone and Google's Android-driven models. /AP Photo/Justin Sullivan. The company behind the once dominant BlackBerry has pulled its

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France considers making vaccine pass mandatory for hospitality venues

France has introduced new restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19 after reporting over 160,000 new cases a day./Reuters/ New COVID-19 rules have come into force in France to curb the sprea

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Turkish inflation hits 19-year high in lira crisis

Turkish lira, Istanbul, Turkey, August 13, 2018. /CFP Turkey's annual inflation rate surged to its highest level since 2002, official data showed Monday, propelled by a currency crisis linked

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Landslides kill 5 in southwest China, 9 still missing

Five workers were killed and nine still missing after landslides hit a construction site on Monday in Bijie City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities

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AT&T, Verizon CEOs reject U.S. request for 5G deployment delay

A Verizon store in Emeryville, California, U.S., July 20, 2021. /CFP The chief executives of ATT and Verizon Communications rejected a request to delay the planned January 5 introduction of ne

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Finland: Strikes shut down UPM pulp and paper plants

At least 3,000 workers at Finnish forestry group UPM went on strike on Saturday, shutting plants, the company reported on Saturday.Three unions representing paper workers, managerial staff and ele

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How China is helping to change the world for the better

Fireworks light up the sky over the China-funded Morodok Techo National Stadium in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, December 18, 2021. /Xinhua Editor's note:StephenNdegwais a Nairobi-based communication

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DPRK concludes key Workers' Party of Korea meeting

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) concluded a key ruling party meeting on Friday, state media Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.The 4th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Commi

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Ethiopia reports 4,998 new COVID-19 infections

FILE PIC: Ethiopia healthcare workers. /Xinhua Ethiopia registered 4,998 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 415,443 as of Thursday evening, the health mini

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Kenya has now vaccinated 10M people out of targeted 27M

VCG Image Ministry of Health in Kenya has announced that the East African nation has attained the projected 10 million target in the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaign.According to a statem

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The right recipe for reforming pensions

Getty Editor's note:Elsa Fornero is a former Italian minister of labor, social policies and gender equality, honorary fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin and scientific coordinator at th