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(Adds details, background) WASHINGTON/PARIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday welcomed the renewed U.S. willingness to engage with Iran, offered himself as an honest broker and said Saudi Arabia and Israel must ultimately be involved somehow. "We do need to finalize, indeed, a new negotiation with Iran," Macron told the Washington-based Atlantic Council think tank in a video conference from Paris. "I will do whatever I can to support any initiative from the U.S. side to reengage a ... dialogue and I will be here ... I was here, and available two years ago and on...

25 Jan 2021 / 05:30 H. (Adds comments by head of scientific council advising French government on COVID-19 response) By Geert De Clercq PARIS, Jan 24 (Reuters) - France probably needs to move into a third lockdown, perhaps as early as the February school holidays, because of the circulation of new variants of the virus, the government's top medical adviser on COVID-19 policy said on Sunday. French schoolchildren have two weeks off in February, but the entire month is a holiday month as three different zones stagger the start of their holidays by one week, with the first starting on Feb. 6. "...

UPDATE 1-EXCLUSIVE-EU seeks more Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, eyes deals with Valneva, Novavax Reuters 1/11/2021 * EU in talks for more Moderna COVID-19 vaccines - sources * Moderna seeks higher price than EU's first contract-source * EU in talks for Valneva's vaccine candidate - sources * Close to ordering 200 mln doses of Novavax shot - source (Adds that the EU and Moderna declined to comment) By Francesco Guarascio and Elvira Pollina BRUSSELS/MILAN, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The European Union is in talks with Moderna to order more of its COVID-19 vaccine despite the company seeking a higher pric...

GRAPHIC-COVID-19 shook, rattled and rolled the global economy in 2020 Reuters 12/31/2020 By Dan Burns and Mark John Popular Searches Dec 31 (Reuters) - When 2020 dawned, the global economy had just notched its 10th straight year of uninterrupted growth, a streak most economists and government finance officials expected to persist for years ahead in a 21st Century version of the "Roaring '20s." But within two months, a mysterious new virus first detected in China in December 2019 - the novel coronavirus - was spreading rapidly worldwide, shattering those expectations and triggering the steep...