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BERLIN (Reuters) – The leaders of Germany, the United States, France, Britain and Italy agreed in a phone call on Tuesday afternoon to keep pushing Russia for a ceasefire and for the withdrawal of its troops from Ukraine, a German government spokesman …

By Michael Erman and Manojna Maddipatla (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized a second booster dose for people age 50 and older of the two most commonly used COVID-19 vaccines, citing data showing waning immunity and th…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday said it remains to be seen whether Russia follows through with any actions to scale down its military operations in Ukraine, saying Washington and its allies will continue with strong sanctions…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Tuesday will sign into law the first federal legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime after the U.S. Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent this month. The legislation is named for 14-…

By Yesim Dikmen and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who is sanctioned by the West over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, made a surprise appearance in Istanbul on Tuesday at the first direct peace talks in weeks betwe…

By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The body of U.S. Representative Don Young of Alaska, who was the longest-serving Republican member of Congress of any era when he died this month, lay in state in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Tuesday, where hi…

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The fourth commercial flight of Jeff Bezos’ space tourism venture Blue Origin, offering short suborbital joyrides to well-heeled thrill-seekers and celebrity guests, has been delayed by two days because of poor weather condit…

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Negotiations on an ambitious global biodiversity deal to halt or reverse nature loss closed in Switzerland on Tuesday, with countries agreeing to little more than further talks in June. The Geneva meeting of around 1,000…

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday plans to unveil tougher fuel economy standards for vehicles that would reverse his predecessor Donald Trump’s rollback of U.S. regulations aimed at improving gas …

(Reuters) -The U.S. national public health agency said on Tuesday that BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron was estimated to account for more than half the coronavirus variants in the country. A resurgence of COVID-19 cases in parts of Asia and Europe has raise…