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Biden gov’t to ask Supreme Court to block Texas abortion law

US President Joe Biden's administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to block Texas' new law banning near-all abortions, according to local media reports on Friday.

Former US President Clinton remains in hospital but health improving

Former US President Bill Clinton's health indicators are "trending in the right direction," but he will continue to receive treatment at a Southern California hospital for one more night, his spokesperson said Friday

Indonesia’s Bali ready to reopen to int’l travelers

JAKARTA, Oct. 12 -- The Indonesian resort island of Bali is waiting in excitement for international tourists as it will reopen on Thursday (Oct. 14).

U.S. reaffirms COVID-19 vaccine mandates amid party-line, individual opposition

NEW YORK -- The U.S. federal government is striving to persuade more people to get vaccinated on their own, or push ahead with mandates, while party-line action, vaccine hesitancy, and even resistance still uphold in some states and sectors against the Democratic administration's universal call for vaccination against the coronavirus.

Antiviral compound blocks SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells: study

CHICAGO -- Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a chemical compound called MM3122 that targets a key human protein called transmembrane (TMPRSS2) that coronaviruses harness to enter and infect human cells.

EU’s health emergency response authority to start operating in 2022

KRANJ, Slovenia -- The European Union's (EU) Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) will start operating at the beginning of the next year, the EU's Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said on Tuesday (Oct. 12).

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