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By Jake Spring (Reuters) – Countries are expected to reach a deal at this month’s U.N. COP16 nature summit on how the world uses and pays for genetic information extracted from nature, according to negotiators. Experts refer to this data as “digital sequence information,” or DSI for short. Here is what you need to know …

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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited missile bases to examine their readiness to undertake actions of “strategic deterrence”, while calling U.S. nuclear capabilities a growing threat to the country, state media reported on Wednesday. The U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal poses an “ever-increasing threat” to North Korea’s security environment, which demands that …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least 18 people were killed, including four children, and 60 were wounded in an Israeli strike on Monday near Beirut’s main government hospital, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Israeli jets hit a Hezbollah target close to the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut but did not target the hospital and …

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By Yuliia Dysa and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said on Tuesday he had resigned to take responsibility for a scandal in which dozens of officials are alleged to have abused their position to receive disability status and avoid military service. Kostin’s resignation followed a meeting of the National Security and …

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By Humeyra Pamuk TEL AVIV (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that Israel has so far taken insufficient steps to get more humanitarian aid into Gaza, and he asked it to work to improve the situation, a senior State Department official said. Blinken held “extended …

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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that G7 and European Union allies are “very close” to finalizing a $50 billion loan to Ukraine backed by frozen Russian assets, with an expected U.S. contribution of about $20 billion. Yellen told a news conference at the start of International …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency called on Tuesday for a temporary truce to allow people to leave areas of northern Gaza as health officials said they were running out of supplies to treat patients injured in a three-week-old Israeli assault. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UNRWA relief agency, said the …

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