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Global standards body approves new merchant code for gun sellers

9 Sep 2022

By Ross Kerber (Reuters) -An international standards body has approved creation of a merchant code for gun retailers, a representative said on Friday, following pressure from activists who say it will help track suspicious weapons purchases. At a meeting this week, a subcommittee of the International Organization for Standardization approved what is known as a …

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Bolsonaro backer kills Lula fan as Brazil election tensions mount

9 Sep 2022

By Ricardo Brito and Rodrigo Viga Gaier BRASILIA (Reuters) -A supporter of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stabbed to death a backer of leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, authorities said on Friday, in the latest example of rising political tensions ahead of the upcoming election. The violence happened in the west-central state …

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U.S. working with U.N. on Russia food, fertilizer export complaints

9 Sep 2022

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States is working with the United Nations to address Russian complaints that sanctions are hindering its food and fertilizer shipments, even though there has been no disruption to Moscow’s exports of the commodities, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. The United Nations, Turkey, Ukraine and …

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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy: Military has liberated more than 30 settlements

9 Sep 2022

(Reuters) – Ukrainian forces have liberated more than 30 settlements in the Kharkiv region as part of a counter-offensive against Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday. In a video address, he also said Kyiv’s forces were successfully continuing active operations in several areas. (Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Leslie Adler)

EU to claw back energy firms’ profits rather than cap Russian gas price

9 Sep 2022

By Kate Abnett and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union energy ministers on Friday tasked Brussels with drafting proposals within a few days to cap the revenues of non-gas energy producers and help power firms stay afloat. But as they sought to protect citizens from soaring energy prices that have driven inflation across the …

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Russian strike hits hospital, people wounded – Ukraine

9 Sep 2022

KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian air strike hit a hospital in Ukraine’s northeastern region of Sumy on Friday morning, destroying the building and wounding people, the region’s governor said. “Russian aviation, without crossing the Ukrainian border, fired at a hospital. The premises were destroyed, there are wounded people,” the official, Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, said on Telegram. The …

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Even with UN deal, Ukraine faces long haul to shift grain mountain

8 Sep 2022

By Jonathan Saul, Nigel Hunt and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Too few ships are arriving in Ukraine to quickly clear mountains of grain built up over months of war despite a U.N.-backed sea corridor, threatening to drive up global food prices and leave the country’s cash-strapped farmers struggling to plant crops. President Vladimir Putin …

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Austria’s Turk proposed to be next UN human rights chief

8 Sep 2022

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will propose Austria’s Volker Turk to be the next High Commissioner for Human Rights, a UN document showed. Turk, who now works in Guterres’ office as Under Secretary-General for Policy, will succeed Chile’s Michelle Bachelet, whose term ended on Aug. 31. The appointment still needs …

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