#BREAKING EU chief says ready to 'discuss' Covid vaccine patent waivers
#UPDATE European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Brussels is ready to discuss a US-backed proposal to waive patents on Covid-19 vaccines.
"The European Union is also ready to discuss any proposal that addresses the crisis in an effective and pragmatic manner"
#UPDATE European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Europe's priority will be to boost global supplies, and implicitly criticised the US and the UK for limiting vaccine exports u.afp.com/Umcz
#BREAKING French President Emmanuel Macron backs waiving Covid-19 vaccine patents
#BREAKING African Union hails US for 'remarkable' leadership on vaccine waiver
#UPDATE The Africa Union's health watchdog has praised the United States' support for a waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines as a "remarkable expression of leadership"
#BREAKING President Putin says supports Russia waiving patents on its Covid jabs
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said he supported the idea of a waiver on patent protections for coronavirus vaccines as Russia registered its fourth virus jab called #SputnikLightu.afp.com/Umf5#patentwaiver
#BREAKING Patents 'not the limiting factor' for Covid vaccine production: BioNTech
#UPDATE German firm #BioNTech said Thursday that #patent protection for Covid-19 vaccines is not holding back production or supply of the jabs it developed with Pfizer, in a tacit rejection of a US call to waive the protections u.afp.com/UmYZ#patentwaiver
#BREAKING World Trade Organization (WTO) head 'warmly welcomes' US vaccine patent waiver proposal
#BREAKING Pfizer CEO 'not at all' in favour of US vaccine patent waiver
#BREAKING Merkel's government says patent protection "must remain," according to spokeswoman
#UPDATE International support grew for a US proposal to waive patents on much-needed coronavirus vaccines, a move strongly opposed by pharmaceutical companies which said it wouldn't fix the supply problems u.afp.com/UmMs
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#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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#BREAKING Titanic sub operator believes passengers have 'sadly been lost': statement
#UPDATE The US Coast Guard now says the discovered debris from the submersible -- which was carrying five passengers down to the wreckage of the Titanic when the small vessel vanished on Sunday -- suggests 'catastrophic loss'
#BREAKING Pakistan offer condolences to family of British-Pakistan nationals on Titanic sub