COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Two patients in Norway has been diagnosed with the mpox virus of the clade 2 variety, the Oslo municipality said on Tuesday. Clade 2 is a less severe form of mpox than the clade 1b strain that has recently caused global concerns. Authorities are currently investigating whether there is a connection between …
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania will phase out fur farms by 2027, lawmakers voted on Tuesday after a campaign by animal rights activists. The European Union state is the twenty-second European country to ban fur farming, Humane Society International/Europe said in a statement after the vote. Lawmakers amended animal rights legislation to phase out farming chinchilla …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli jets hit a Hezbollah target close to the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut late on Monday but did not target the hospital and it was not affected by the strike, the Israeli military said on Tuesday. During a press conference on Tuesday, the director of the hospital, Jihad Saadeh, said …
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By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -The war between Israel and Hamas has devastated the Palestinian economy and left nearly all of Gaza’s population in poverty, with quality of life indicators such as health and education knocked back 70 years, the United Nations’ development agency said on Tuesday. Launching a study on the war’s socioeconomic impacts, …
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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris held a marginal 46% to 43% lead over Republican former President Donald Trump, with a glum electorate saying the country is on the wrong track, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. Harris’ lead in the six-day poll, which closed on Monday, differed little from …
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Tuesday that Islamic State’s commander for Iraq had been killed in an operation in the Hamrin Mountains in northeast Iraq. (Reporting by Nadine Awadalla and Nayera Abdallah; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – Ukraine’s population has declined by 10 million, or around a quarter, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion as a result of refugees leaving, collapsing fertility and war deaths, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Speaking at a Geneva news conference, Florence Bauer, Eastern Europe head at the U.N. …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s public debt as a proportion of output last year was slightly higher than previously estimated, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Tuesday. The level of public debt in 2023 was slightly increased to 134.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) from the 134.6% estimated last month, when ISTAT revised the debt-to-GDP ratio …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Three people including a child were killed in a Russian drone strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, officials said on Tuesday. The attack, part of a mass overnight strike on Ukraine, targeted a residential neighbourhood and critical infrastructure, regional administration head of staff Ihor Kalchenko said on the Telegram messaging …
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By David Latona MADRID (Reuters) – Members of Spanish hard-left party Podemos (“We Can”) began voting on Tuesday whether to make its crucial support for this year’s budget conditional on the government severing ties with Israel and implementing measures to curb rent prices by 40%. The Socialist-led government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, which relies …
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