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Countries adopt WHO pandemic agreement
Countries have adopted a new agreement Tuesday to protect the world from future pandemics at the World Health Organization’s annual assembly in Geneva. WHO member countries adopted the agreement by…
WHO Negotiations Stalemate on Governments’ Role in Future Pandemics
The World Health Organization ended discussions about how to protect the world from future pandemics without reaching an agreement. Now, it's up…
WHO chief worried about missing deadline for pandemic accord
GENEVA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Countries risk missing a May deadline for agreeing a legally binding treaty on fighting pandemics and this…
Wars raise profit outlook for US defense industry in 2024
When the Pentagon pulled the world's biggest defense contractors into a meeting to tell them to ramp up production shortly after Russia…
Drugmakers propose swift pandemic response benefiting poorer countries
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Global drugmakers are lobbying for wealthy nations to fund a supply mechanism that would secure vaccines for low-income countries…
European Commission to issue €50 billion in long-term bonds by June 2022 to finance the recovery
Following the successful start of borrowing to finance the NextGenerationEU recovery in June 2021, and in line with its strategy for open…
Greece is bouncing back from pandemic rout, says PM Mitsotakis
ATHENS, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Greece is on track to produce a primary surplus from 2023, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on…
Consensus reached for year-end WHO talks on pandemic treaty
South Africa said on Tuesday that consensus has been reached to hold a special session of the World Health Organization's (WHO) decision-making…
UPDATE – Time for change: Queen sets out UK Johnson’s post-pandemic agenda
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to tackle inequality and "level up" the country on Tuesday with a post-pandemic raft of laws…
Pandemic deters thieves, fuels domestic violence, German police say
BERLIN (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a rise in domestic violence, online fraud and child pornography last year in Germany, although…