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1/27/2022 5:29:36 PM
The EU's drug watchdog approved Pfizer's coronavirus pill on Thursday, making it the first oral antiviral treatment for the disease to be authorised in Europe.
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1/9/2022 12:09:31 PM
Africa has registered a total of more than 10 million coronavirus cases, according to figures from the African Union's health watchdog seen by AFP on Sunday.
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1/8/2022 2:38:24 PM
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists asked Indian authorities to immediately release a journalist in disputed Kashmir, days after police arrested him for uploading a video clip of a protest against Indian rule.
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12/31/2021 6:40:41 PM
A total of 45 journalists were killed worldwide in 2021, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said on Friday -- "one of the lowest death tolls" it has recorded for any year.
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12/16/2021 2:52:39 PM
Ethiopian authorities must immediately free all detained journalists and stop using wartime emergency laws to lock up reporters for doing their jobs, a press freedom watchdog said Thursday.
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12/15/2021 2:32:17 PM
A human rights watchdog urged the United Nations on Wednesday to deploy monitors to Sudan's western region of Darfur, where a surge in tribal clashes has killed more than 180 people since October.
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12/15/2021 2:28:54 PM
Iran will allow the United Nations' nuclear watchdog to reinstall cameras damaged at a site where it has centrifuge parts and manufacturing material, semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported Wednesday.
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12/14/2021 7:19:22 PM
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog warned Tuesday that the restrictions faced by his inspectors in Iran threaten to give the world only a ``very blurred image'' of Tehran's program as it enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels.
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11/30/2021 8:01:30 PM
Vaccines specially adapted for the new Omicron coronavirus variant could be approved in three to four months if they are needed, the head of the EU's drug regulator said on Tuesday.
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11/24/2021 2:39:46 PM
The UN nuclear watchdog's head said on Wednesday that he "could not agree" in talks with Iranian officials to resolve disputes over the country's atomic programme, a day after returning from Tehran.
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11/23/2021 8:27:59 PM
The European Medicines Agency said Tuesday it may decide "within weeks" whether to approve Merck's anti-Covid pill, Lagevrio, which could offer patients an easy at-home treatment for the disease.
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11/23/2021 11:29:34 AM
The head of the United Nations' atomic watchdog met Tuesday with Iranian officials to press for greater access in the Islamic Republic on the eve of diplomatic talks restarting over Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
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11/22/2021 11:03:58 PM
Iran said it hoped a visit by the head of the UN's atomic watchdog that started Monday would be "constructive", a week ahead of the resumption of talks seeking to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
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11/19/2021 6:40:51 PM
The EU's drug watchdog on Friday started reviewing Pfizer's Covid pill for emergency use by member states as Europe grappled for ways to tackle a sudden spike in coronavirus cases.
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11/17/2021 5:28:25 PM
Ethiopia's human rights watchdog said Wednesday it had been barred from visiting detainees rounded up in mass arrests under a wartime state of emergency.
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11/17/2021 2:31:02 PM
The United Nations' atomic watchdog says it believes Iran has further increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in breach of a 2015 accord with world powers.
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11/15/2021 1:03:42 PM
Iran has invited the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency for talks after the UN official expressed concern over a lack of contact with Iranian authorities, Tehran said Monday.
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10/27/2021 5:39:24 PM
More than 30 instances of violence and threats of violence against Afghan journalists were recorded in the last two months, with nearly 90% committed by the Taliban, a media watchdog said Wednesday.
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10/25/2021 10:44:02 PM
The EU's drug watchdog on Monday approved booster doses of Moderna's Covid vaccine for all over-18s, amid concerns that protection levels dip after initial jabs.
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10/24/2021 10:56:35 AM
The Head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says his monitoring program in Iran is no longer “intact” after Tehran refused requests to repair cameras at a key facility, creating the possibility the world will never be “able to reconstruct the picture” of what the Iranians have been doing, NBC News reported Sunday.
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