By Joan Faus MADRID (Reuters) -Spain reported its first monkeypox-related death on Friday, in what is thought to be Europe’s first death from the disease and only the second outside of Africa in the current outbreak. Brazil reported earlier on Friday the first monkeypox-related death outside the African continent in the current wave of the …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday upheld rules set by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requiring drones to have remote identification technology to enable them to be identified from the ground. The rules, which were finalized in April 2021, give drone manufacturers 18 months to begin producing drones with …
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(Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry said on Friday that Ukraine struck a prison in separatist-held territory with U.S.-made HIMARS rockets, killing 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war and leaving 75 wounded. Reuters could not immediately verify battlefield reports. Ukraine did not immediately comment on the Russian statement. “A missile strike from the U.S.-made multiple launch rocket system …
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By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – As President Jair Bolsonaro has aggressively sought to boost gun ownership in Brazil, documents obtained by Reuters reveal one key source of resistance to his agenda: his own federal police. Nearly two decades after Brazil passed a landmark firearms control law, Bolsonaro has used dozens of executive …
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KYIV (Reuters) – At least five people were killed and seven wounded in a Russian missile strike on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Friday, the regional governor said. Vitaliy Kim, governor of the Mykolaiv region, wrote on the Telegram messaging app that a missile had struck near a public transport stop. “At the …
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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union clinched a deal this week to cope with a gas supply crisis, but to make it work member states need to establish bilateral pacts to share gas and, right now, most have no such agreement in place. Only six such deals have been secured, leaving most of …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s defence minister Ben Wallace said on Friday that Russia was failing in “many areas” in its war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin might seek to change strategy again. “The Russians are failing at the moment on the ground in many areas … Putin’s plan A, B, and C has failed …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday there was no deal yet with the United States on swapping detained U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner and a former Marine for an imprisoned Russian called by American prosecutors one of the world’s most prolific arms dealers. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said …
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By Anita Komuves JASZSZENTLASZLO, Hungary (Reuters) – Andras Eordogh admiringly watches his dozen foals as they frolic and kick up dust on his farm in the scorching summer heat and laments that he will have to sell most of them because of the changing climate in this rural southeast corner of Hungary. The gently-spoken, 66-year-old …
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By Philip Pullella and Kevin Dougherty SAINTE-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRE, Quebec (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Thursday said the Catholic Church felt “the burden of failure” for its role in running government-backed residential schools that tried to wipe out indigenous cultures and became places of abuse. On the penultimate day of his week-long apology tour of Canada, Francis presided …
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