Новости за 19.12.2021

Moderna has halted a patent dispute with the U.S. federal government.

A South African government panel said the Omicron variant is mild enough that there's no need for further quarantines and contact tracing.

Mexico City resumed its Christmas festivities this year after an almost two-year long lockdown. This, as coronavirus fears gradually subside.

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis has said that men who commit violence against women engage in something that is "almost satanic".

By Pawel Florkiewicz and Alan Charlish WARSAW (Reuters) -Poles on Sunday staged nationwide protests including a thousands-strong rally outside the presidential palace to demand the head of state veto

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Guardian newspaper on Sunday published a photograph of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and more than a dozen other people drinking wine in the garden of his Downing Street

(Corrects total number of games postponed to seven in para three) (Reuters) -The NBA on Sunday announced it had postponed the next two Brooklyn Nets games and games for three other teams due to the

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) -Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool raised the spirits with a rip-roaring 2-2 draw in a pre-Christmas Premier League classic on Sunday after a weekend marred by COVID-19

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is in the midst of a fifth COVID-19 wave due to the Omicron variant, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday, urging citizens to step up vaccination and to take

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said he's a hard no on the Build Back Better spending bill.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) announced Texas is making great progress with the southern border wall in the Rio Grande Valley.

Top Taliban officials are pleading for international help in order to help combat the surge in migrants from Afghanistan.

(Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc has picked former Chief Executive Officer of Tesco Plc Dave Lewis to head GSK's consumer healthcare unit, which is being spun off into a standalone business, Sky News

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach ruled out a Christmas lockdown on Sunday but warned a fifth COVID-19 wave could no longer be stopped and backed mandatory vaccination as the

Former President Ronald Reagan was known for his funny stories, especially when it came to poking fun at the Soviets to release tensions between the two. Here's a look back at some of those highlights:

WOLVERHAMPTON, England (Reuters) - Chelsea’s title ambitions suffered a further blow after they were held to a goalless draw by Wolverhampton Wanderers at a misty Molineux Stadium on Sunday, a match

NEWCASTLE, England (Reuters) -Manchester City's Joao Cancelo scored one goal and made another as they overwhelmed struggling Newcastle United 4-0 on Sunday to ensure they will spend Christmas Day top

By Anirudh Saligrama (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Societe Generale SA are changing to a Saturday-Sunday weekend from the New Year in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which is

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Spider-Man: No Way Home" racked up an estimated $253 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales over the weekend, setting a pandemic-era record and ranking as the third-biggest

By Jan Wolfe and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire broke out on Sunday at a Siberian coal mine, Russia's TASS news agency cited the emergency services as saying, with operations underway to bring 139 miners to the surface,

LONDON (Reuters) - The Netherlands went into lockdown on Sunday and the possibility of more COVID-19 restrictions over the Christmas and New Year period loomed over several European countries as the

By Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) - A European Commissioner said on Sunday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's refusal to compromise on Brexit was "untenable" and called on him not to let

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A meeting of foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation agreed on Sunday to establish a humanitarian trust fund to address the growing economic crisis in

PARIS (Reuters) - French growth and inflation will moderate in 2022 after a faster than expected recovery this year, after which a tighter labour market will boost wages, the French central bank