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UK ‘faces labour shortages’ as COVID and Brexit fuel exodus of overseas workers
May 18, 2021 15:03Britain’s employers are struggling to hire staff as lockdown lifts amid an exodus of overseas workers caused by the COVID pandemic and Brexit, industry figures reveal.
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Iran rejects ‘preliminary agreement’ over JCPOA, calls for all-encompassing deal
May 17, 2021 07:16Iran has ruled out a “preliminary agreement” within the format of the ongoing Vienna talks, saying there would be only one agreement encompassing all aspects of measures that need to be taken to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
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European tour takes Iran’s Zarif to Rome
May 16, 2021 01:49Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Italy on Sunday on the second leg of a tour that took him earlier to Spain.
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Global planemakers on path to return to Iran deals: Minister
May 16, 2021 01:04Iran’s Transportation Minister Mohammad Eslami says two global planemakers Airbus and Boeing have started works to return to contracts they signed with the country several years ago and before the United States imposed its sanctions on Tehran.
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French police arrest head of Palestine advocacy group, ban pro-Palestine rally
May 14, 2021 02:02Police in France have arrested the head of a Palestine advocacy organization after putting a ban on a rally against Zionist entity’s atrocities.
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Iran secures court order to protect Luxembourg funds against US attempt
May 14, 2021 01:52The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has managed to win a court order in Luxembourg to prevent the transfer of nearly $1.7 billion worth of assets from the European country to the United States.
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Euro-Med urges EU interference to end Zionist entity’s aggression in Gaza
May 14, 2021 01:47A rights group in a letter to the European Union has detailed the ongoing Israeli campaign of brutality against Palestinians, stressing the need to intervene and end deadly airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip.
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After hoarding, West bickers on sharing patents as virus kills in droves
May 13, 2021 10:56South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned of “vaccine apartheid” as millions of people in poor countries are dying of the coronavirus with no access to vaccines and wealthy countries are hogging shots.
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Support for new malaria vaccine may be lacking in rich world
May 13, 2021 10:47The first efforts to eradicate malaria began in the 1950s under the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (one that decided to leave sub-Saharan Africa out of the “global” campaign), making use of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine and spraying large areas with the insecticide DDT.
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Over a quarter of EU adults would refuse COVID-19 shot, survey says
May 13, 2021 10:02More than a quarter of adults in the European Union would be unlikely to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was offered to them, a new survey shows.