Thursday, March 17, 2022

In the news, Thursday, March 17, 2022


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from ABC News (& affiliates)
TV Network in New York, New York

The U.N.-backed Medicines Patent Pool says that nearly three dozen companies worldwide will soon start making generic versions of Pfizer’s coronavirus pill.  ByThe Associated Press
Nearly three dozen companies worldwide will soon start making generic versions of Pfizer’s coronavirus pill, the U.N.-backed Medicines Patent Pool that negotiated the deal said Thursday. The Medicines Patent Pool said in a statement that agreements signed with 35 companies should help make Pfizer’s antiviral nirmatrelvir, or Paxlovoid, available to more than half of the world’s population.

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from POLITICO
LEAST BIASED, HIGH, news and opinion website in Arlington, Virginia

Russia’s flagship news broadcast is a rare window into Kremlin thinking — which is becoming muddier as the war drags on. Opinion by LAWRENCE SCOTT SHEETS
In the Soviet period, watching the evening news broadcast on state television provided important clues into what was happening inside the Kremlin. One of my first jobs as a young Russian speaker living in Moscow was monitoring those broadcasts for American journalists — which leaders were shown shaking hands with whom could signal who was up or who was down in the Communist Party leadership. Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has eliminated the last vestiges of independent media in Russia, the evening news broadcast “Vremya” on Channel One — Russia’s main state TV channel — is once again one of the few ways to peek inside the Kremlin. The news show is little changed since Soviet times, heavily focused on Putin and the Kremlin’s official business.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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