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1 of 8 Election campaign posters from Merkel s Christian Democratic Union, CDU, with top candidate and state governor Reiner Haseloff, top, and from the far-right Alternative for Germany, AFD, party with top candidate, Oliver Kirchner, displayed in front of a residents building at federal state Saxony-Anhalt s capital Magdeburg, Germany, Wednesday, June 2, 2021.The state vote on Sunday, June 6, 2021 is German politicians last major test at the ballot box before the national election in September that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) 2 of 8 Election campaign posters from the Greens and Merkel s Christian Democratic Union party stand near a road in the federal state Saxony-Anhalt s capital Magdeburg, Germany, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. The state vote on Sunday, June 6, 2021 is German politicians last major test at the ballot box before the national election in September that will determine who ....
LONDON - British health officials expressed optimism Sunday that the coronavirus restrictions remaining in England can be lifted in June after an official study found that the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines offer effective protection against the variant first identified in India. Authorities in Britain have expressed concern in recent weeks that increasing cases of the Indian variant could jeopardize the U.K.’s so-far successful plan to reopen. ....
GENEVA European leaders voiced increasing skepticism Friday that a U.S. proposal to lift patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines would solve the problem of getting shots into the arms of people in poorer countries, with some instead calling for more exports of the doses already being produced. While activists and humanitarian groups have cheered the Biden administration’s decision and urged others to follow suit, European Union leaders are hammering home the message that any benefit from a temporary waiver of intellectual property protections would be long in coming. Instead, they’ve taken the U.S., in particular, to task for not sharing more vaccines with the rest of the world. ....