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EU proposes windfall levies on energy firms to ease price pain

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – The European Union’s executive plans to raise more than 140 billion euros ($140 billion) to soften the blow to consumers from soaring energy prices by skimming off revenues from low-cost electricity generators and making fossil fuel firms share windfall profits.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

End of COVID pandemic is ‘in sight’ -WHO chief

 (Reuters) – The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said today, his most optimistic outlook yet on the years-long health crisis which has killed over six million people.

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