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US Stores Put Limits On At-home Covid Test Buys Due To High Demand

The resumption of holiday travel coupled with the rapidly spreading Omicron variant left Americans scrambling Wednesday to find at-home Covid tests, leading multiple major distributors to limit the number of kits per customer. Amazon, as well as vendors on its platform, began limiting the number of tests per person Wednesday. National pharmaceutical chains CVS and …

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Demand For ‘Government Of Fighters’ In Troubled Burkina As PM Quits

Business / By Janel Cannon

President Roch Marc Christian Kabore faced demands Thursday for tougher action against Burkina Faso’s jihadist insurgency, a day after the crisis claimed the political scalp of the prime minister. Seeking to defuse anger over a bloody six-year-old campaign that has claimed around 2,000 lives and forced 1.4 million from their homes, Kabore on Wednesday accepted …

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Bangladesh Demonstrators Demand Foreign Treatment For Ailing Ex-PM

Business / By Janel Cannon

Bangladesh police fired tear gas and around 20 people were injured Monday as thousands of opposition demonstrators demanded the government allow ailing ex-premier Khaleda Zia to fly abroad for treatment. Zia, 76, arch-rival of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was admitted to the critical care unit of a Dhaka hospital early this month after her …

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Thunberg Labels COP26 ‘Failure’ As Youth Demand Action

Business / By Janel Cannon

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg on Friday branded the UN climate summit in Glasgow a “failure” during a mass protest in the Scottish city demanding swifter action from leaders to address the emergency. Thunberg said pledges from some nations made during COP26 to accelerate their emissions cuts amounted to little more than “a two-week long celebration …

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Thunberg Labels COP26 ‘Failure’ As Youth Demand Action

Business / By Janel Cannon

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Chinese demand, higher prices boost BMW’s first-quarter earnings

Analysis: More wheat feeding and pig disease outbreaks pose double threat to China soymeal demand

China’s Q1 GDP growth seen hitting record 19% as domestic, global demand recovers

Economy, Top News / By Liz Morgan

FILE PHOTO: Containers and lorries are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai, China, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo April 15, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s economy likely grew at record pace of 19% in the first quarter, rebounding from a pandemic slump early last year …

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Republicans Demand Audit of Taxpayer-Funded COVID Relief After New York Earmarks Billions for Illegal Immigrants

Politics, Top News / By Madeline Kennedy

Two top Republicans in the House of Representatives are pushing for an audit of the recently-passed COVID-19 relief package after New York state created a fund to send payments to illegal immigrants. Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the top GOP member on the …

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