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By Edward McAllister and Cooper Inveen DAKAR/ACCRA (Reuters) – It’s noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a tablet. One woman, …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – The foreign minister of Austria said his country would retain its neutral status even as EU allies Sweden and Finland overhauled decades-long foreign policy stances to apply for NATO membership in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “The situation for us looks a little different,” Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg told German …

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OSLO (Reuters) – A man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stabbing five people to death and attempting to murder 11 with a bow and arrow, attacks which spread fear across a small town in Norway in October last year. The rampage through Kongsberg, 70 km (40 miles) west of the capital Oslo, lasted more than …

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(Reuters) – Slovak Finance Minister Igor Matovic said on Tuesday he would propose a special tax on Russian crude processed in the country, clashing with a government coalition partner as he seeks to raise budget revenue for the state’s anti-inflation measures. The proposal comes as European Union states also seek agreement on a tougher set …

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By Jeff Mason BUFFALO, N.Y. (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned white supremacists, the media, the internet and politics for spreading racist conspiracy theories as he mourned the killing of 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York. “What happened here is simple and straightforward: Terrorism, terrorism, domestic terrorism,” he said. Payton Gendron, an …

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(Reuters) – Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies have lost their majority in Lebanon’s parliament in a general election, a Reuters tally of final results showed on Tuesday, a major blow to the heavily armed group reflecting anger with Lebanon’s ruling elite. The Shi’ite Muslim movement and factions that support its possession of arms won around …

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