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The US has authorised Covid-19 booster doses that target the highly contagious Omicron variant in the hopes of preventing another winter surge in cases. The move on Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve the shots from Pfizer and Moderna means they could become available to the public within days. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must now recommend who gets priority to receive the additional booster shots. Eligibility will depend on age, and when a patient's previous doses were administered, according to the FDA. |
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| A late night court filing by the Department of Justice shows former president Donald Trump and his legal team facing significant peril |
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| Former congressman claims the abortion ban is uniting Texans behind him in a way he has never seen before, Andrew Buncombe reports |
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| Prosecutors accuse him of forcibly committing sexual assault on two occasions and committing abusive sexual contact on a third in 2016 |
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| Several hospitals have reported an increase in harassment over care facilities for young trans people, Alex Woodward reports |
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How did Mikhail Gorbachev become a cultural icon? |
Mikhail Gorbachev walks into a Pizza Hut. The year is 1997, six years after the end of the Soviet Union, and the leader who oversaw its dissolution is in Moscow's Red Square to star in one of the strangest television adverts ever produced. After taking a seat alongside his granddaughter, Gorbachev is spotted by two men at a nearby table and a debate over his legacy ensues. "Because of him we have economic confusion!" claims a dour, middle-aged man. "Because of him we have opportunity!" fires back the younger of the pair. It's left to an older woman to settle the matter. "Because of him, we have many things… like Pizza Hut!" Gorbachev, who has died after a "serious and long illness" at the age of 91, found himself an unlikely cultural icon after the collapse of the USSR, a phenomenon typified by his commercial for the American franchise. Here is a look at his often surprising afterlife in the public eye. |
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"That's private, put it down that I told you private!" |
– Legendary TV sex therapist Dr Ruth Westheimer, 94, refuses to tell The Independent what made former Bill Clinton blush during their conversation as they sat side by side watching a Serena Williams match at the US Open in New York this week. |
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