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KLM to keep long haul flights as COVID testing demands are softened By Reuters

(Reuters) - Dutch airline KLM will keep operating long haul flights, including for vaccine distribution, after agreeing with the government on softer demands for returning air crews to carry out rapid COVID-19 tests. The Dutch arm of Air France-KLM said earlier in the week it would cancel all its 270 weekly long-haul flights to the Netherlands as a result of new COVID-19...

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Taiwan says asking chip firms to help ease auto chip shortage By Reuters

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Sunday it has received requests through diplomatic channels to help ease a shortage of chips for the auto sector and that it has asked local tech firms to provide "full assistance". Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines because of a global shortage of semiconductors that in some cases has...

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After first phone call, UK PM Johnson looks forward to working with Biden By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday he looked forward to working with new U.S. President Joe Biden on their shared goals, including tackling climate change after their first phone call. "The prime minister warmly welcomed the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change," a spokeswoman for Johnson said. "Building on the UK and U.S.'...

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UK vaccination rate hits record daily high, total deaths at 97,329 By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain vaccinated 478,248 people in the 24 hours to Saturday with a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, a daily record according to government figures, as the total death toll from the virus nears the 100,000 mark, standing at 97,329. Government data showed that the total number of people who have had a first dose of the vaccine...

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Britain to discuss tighter travel restrictions – BBC By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - British ministers are to discuss on Monday further tightening travel restrictions, the BBC reported on Saturday, adding that people arriving in the country could be required to quarantine in hotels. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a news conference on Friday that the UK may need to implement further measures to protect its borders from new variants of COVID-19....

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Orange sells 1.3 billion euros worth of fixed fibre assets in France By Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - Orange, France's leading telecoms operator, said late on Friday that it agreed to sell part of its fixed fibre assets in the country to a consortium of three investors for about 1.3 billion euros ($1.58 billion). It is the first time that the Paris-based company, which is also carving out its mobile towers in most European countries to...

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