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CureVac in talks with pharma companies about partnership

FRANKFURT, Aug 14 (Reuters) – German biotechnology company CureVac is in talks with major drugmakers over a partnership to help mark and spread the potential vaccine against the COVID-19 virus, its chief executive Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. CureVac, backed by Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates, reported on Nasdaq stock on …

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Protests swell in Belarus, Lukashenko blames foreigners

MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Friday told people to stay home so as not to be “cannon fodder” for what he said were revolutionaries with foreign support after large crowds took to the streets on the seventh consecutive day to demand that he departed. Lukashenko, whose Sunday …

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