People in Europe should take whatever COVID-19 booster is available to them in the coming months, Emer Cooke, Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), said in a Reuters Next Newsmaker interview ahead of an expected autumn rise in infections.
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Two seemingly armed and desperate Lebanese depositors held up banks on Wednesday to force access to their own money, which has been blocked during a national financial meltdown.
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The three men were arrested for raping the minor girl in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
The men reportedly used "sticks to hit the reptile and divert its attention."
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy paid a surprise visit on Wednesday to the newly recaptured town of Izium, a key logistics hub in the northeastern Kharkiv region, and thanked his army for their success in retaking territory from Russian forces.
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The tattoo references the moment the monarch and Paddington Bear had tea in the Buckingham Palace.
Call between the two leaders comes at a time when there is growing pressure on Germany to give more weapons to Kyiv amid reports of Ukrainian success.
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Under current laws, Russia can call on its reserves of soldiers and sailors younger than 45 as well as officers younger than 55 should it declare mobilization.
At the London Coliseum theatre, a cast of Ukrainian dancers rehearse a new production of "Giselle", as Russian choreographer and former Bolshoi Ballet director Alexei Ratmansky watches from the sidelines.
The nature of the spotted objects was not clear, Ukrainian astronomers said.
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Kenyan President William Ruto, who was sworn into office on Tuesday, is taking power at a time when the country has the largest number of elected female representatives in history - and they want him to keep his promise of getting more women into politics.
The United States on Wednesday announced that it would transfer $3.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets into a new Swiss-based trust fund that will be shielded from the Taliban and used to help stabilize Afghanistan's collapsed economy.
The naval exercise coincides with the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Japan.
Taiwan is looking at Ukraine's ways of communicating its message to the outside world at a time of conflict, by making use of tools such as satellites and deploying humour, the digital minister said on Wednesday.
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Pope Francis said on Wednesday that God does not guide religions towards war, an implicit criticism of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who backs the invasion of Ukraine and has boycotted a conference of faith leaders.
China Coast Guard vessels have been repeatedly intruding into the territorial waters claimed by Japan around the Senkaku Islands.
A growing number of Canadians do not want a foreign monarch to represent them despite deep historical ties to Britain and affection for the queen, but risks that come with constitutional reform mean there is little political will for change.
"It's absolutely impossible to defeat Ukraine using those resources and colonial war methods with which Russia is trying to wage war," Boris Nadeszhdin, a former liberal member of Russia's parliament, said last week.
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The Russian soldier said they no longer had any ammunition to protect themselves and added that their command had abandoned them.