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Month: November 2021

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Communists have now left the Czech parliament, more than three decades after the Velvet Revolution

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN When the Czech Republic’s 200 newly-elected deputies gathered for the inaugural session of its new parliament on Monday, there wasn’t a single Communist party member there — for the first time in 76 years. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), the direct successor of the totalitarian Communist Party of

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Star of “Dolphin Tale” movies falls ill at Florida aquarium

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Officials say the prosthetic-tailed dolphin that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies may be fighting a gastrointestinal infection. The Clearwater Marine Aquarium announced Sunday that staff members noticed a week earlier that Winter was acting abnormally and not eating. Initial bloodwork showed the possible infection. The aquarium’s care team has been

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US seizes $6 million in ransom payments and charges Ukrainian over major cyberattack

By Christina Carrega and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Law enforcement officials seized an estimated $6 million in ransom payments and federal prosecutors charged a suspect from Ukraine over a damaging July ransomware attack on an American company in a breakthrough for the Biden administration’s pursuit of cybercriminals, the Justice Department announced Monday. Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian

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Pfizer said Tuesday it signed a licensing agreement to allow broader global access to its experimental Covid-19 pill.

Pfizer signs license agreement to allow broader global access to its experimental Covid-19 antiviral pill

By Amanda Sealy, CNN Pfizer said Tuesday it signed a licensing agreement to allow broader global access to its experimental Covid-19 pill. The agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool, a United Nations-backed public health organization, would allow generic manufacturers to make the pill widely available in 95 low- and middle-income countries covering 53% of the

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