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Vale and Brazil state do not reach agreement for reparations over deadly dam disaster
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian iron miner Vale SA has not reached an agreement on a settlement for damages regarding a deadly dam disaster and negotiations are currently on hold, an official with the...
Jan 21, 2021
Exclusive: Pfizer-BioNTech agree to supply WHO co-led COVID-19 vaccine scheme – sources
By Kate Kelland and Ludwig Burger LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Pfizer and BioNTech have agreed to supply their COVID-19 vaccine to the World Health Organization co-led COVAX vaccine access scheme, two...
Jan 21, 2021
No way to hold Rio carnival in July, the city’s mayor says
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - It will not be possible to host carnival celebrations in July, Rio de Janeiro's new mayor said on Thursday, as Brazil's second wave of coronavirus infections gathers steam w...
Jan 21, 2021
Love in the time of COVID-19? ‘No thanks’ say Brazil’s divorcing couples
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil recorded a record number of divorces during the second half of 2020, the national college of notaries said on Thursday, as married couples grew sick of one another af...
Jan 21, 2021
U.S. climate envoy Kerry, UK’s COP26 chief discuss common goals
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry spoke to Britain's head of the United Nations COP26 climate conference on Thursday, agreeing that the two countries would work together to rais...
Jan 21, 2021
Czech parliament extends state of emergency until Feb. 14
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The lower house of the Czech parliament on Thursday extended the country's state of emergency until Feb. 14, a week less than the government had wanted as it seeks to keep in place ...
Jan 21, 2021
EU promised help to Ukraine to get coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible: Zelenskiy
KYIV (Reuters) - The European Union has promised to help Ukraine obtain coronavirus vaccines as soon as possible, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office said on Thursday evening. Zelenskiy r...
Jan 21, 2021
U.N. envoy says Central African Republic needs more peacekeepers
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations must deploy many more peacekeepers to Central African Republic to support government troops depleted by mass desertions during a recent surge in rebel attacks, ...
Jan 21, 2021
Witness implicates Mexican soldiers in mass student kidnap, president says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed on Thursday that a witness implicated soldiers in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in the southern state of Guerrer...
Jan 21, 2021
Runaway cost of oxygen tanks adds extra agony to pandemic in Mexico
By Diego Or MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A shortage of oxygen tanks in Mexico City and a fourfold rise in prices for the life-saving gas are compounding the coronavirus crisis for the sprawling capital's h...
Jan 21, 2021
