(Reuters) – Nirav Shah, head of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will become principal deputy director of the U.S. CDC, Maine Governor Janet Mills said on Thursday. Shah joined Maine CDC in June 2019 and led its efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. He will replace Debra Houry, who joined in 2021, …
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QUITO, 12 ene (Reuters) – La Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol (FEF) dijo el jueves que no logró un acuerdo para que el argentino Gustavo Alfaro continúe dirigiendo la selección del país andino, luego de su participación en el Mundial de Qatar el año pasado. Alfaro, de 60 años, dirigió la selección ecuatoriana desde agosto del …
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(Reuters) – Vaccination rates among kindergarten children against potentially deadly diseases such as polio, measles and diphtheria fell in the 2021-2022 school year, extending the previous year’s slide from pre-pandemic levels, a U.S. government study showed on Thursday. The fall in rates for the four most commonly required childhood vaccines reflects the disruption caused by …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A cyber incident that led to severe disruption to Royal Mail’s international export services was caused by Lockbit, a ransomware group that some cybersecurity experts say has members in Russia, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported. Royal Mail, one of the world’s largest post and parcel firms which serves thousands of businesses, was still unable …
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BRASILIA, 12 ene (Reuters) -El ministro de Hacienda de Brasil, Fernando Haddad, anunció el jueves un paquete de medidas para aumentar los ingresos y recortar los gastos con el fin de reducir un déficit primario estimado en 232.000 millones de reales (46.000 millones de dólares) en el presupuesto de este año. “Tenemos la meta de …
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government filled three Bank of Canada board vacancies on Thursday with finance veterans including Ernie Daniels, likely the first First Nations member on the central bank’s board, a bank spokesperson said. The Bank of Canada’s board selects its governor and provides general oversight of the management and administration of the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Thursday that Russia’s persistent troubles in Ukraine likely led to latest shake-up in military leadership, and urged Moscow to end the war instead turning to new generals to oversee the nearly year-long invasion. Russia on Wednesday appointed Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov to oversee the military …
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way’s outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy – almost halfway to a neighboring galaxy. The researchers said these 208 stars inhabit the most remote reaches of the …
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By Ted Hesson and Daina Beth Solomon WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border can now use a mobile app to schedule a time to approach a land port of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed on Thursday, a move intended to reduce unauthorized crossings but which has sparked concerns …
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ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s government and trade unions on Thursday agreed to increase all public servants’ salaries by 30% for 2023, they said in a joint statement, as the country struggles to reduce debt and tackle rampant inflation. The West African gold, oil and cocoa producer is battling its worst economic crisis in a generation. …
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