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Morning Mail / 2 lines: What mattered to the world yesterday

Politiko 2021-10-18 08:07:07
Morning Mail / 2 lines: What mattered to the world yesterday

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Molnupiravir, an antiviral drug manufactured by Merck, could herald a not-too-distant future when a simple pill would keep coronavirus-infected people from dying or becoming seriously ill. The medicine is easily dispensed and can be taken at home. The test results showed that it halves the risk of hospitalization and death of people at high risk at the onset of infection.

. Seventeen people, including five children, linked to a group of American missionary aid were abducted yesterday in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

■ After five people were killed last week in a small Norwegian town with weapons that included a bow and arrow, police say the suspect is undergoing psychiatric evaluation.

■ The US extradited a key ally of Venezuela's authoritarian government, prompting the Venezuelan government to once again detain six oil industry executives, including five US citizens, in retaliation.

■ Police in Britain is seeking answers as to what may have motivated a 25-year-old British man of Somali descent suspected in the brutal murder of a Conservative Party lawmaker, a murder that has shocked political institutions.

. Bill Clinton was released from the hospital after being treated for an infection.

■ A Roman Catholic diocese in Sicily has imposed a three-year ban on the selection of godparents, arguing that the practice has lost its spiritual significance and has simply become a way to strengthen families' ties to the mafia.

. Tons of dead fish have come ashore in recent years in Mar Menor, a once crystalline Spanish lagoon on the Mediterranean coast that has been flooded by algae.

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