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(Reuters) – Ontario is in the sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic driven by the highly transmissible BA.2 sub-variant of the Omicron coronavirus and hospitalizations are likely to rise over the coming weeks, the most populous Canadian province’s top doctor said on Monday. “In the last few weeks we have seen an increase in the …

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PARIS (Reuters) – Emmanuel Macron will face far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in the runoff vote of France’s presidential election on April 24, early projections showed. Here are quotes from the candidates: Marine Le Pen, far-right qualifier for runoff vote: “In this first round, the French people clearly wanted to make a fundamental choice between …

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By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – The French will decide on April 24 whether to re-elect pro-business centrist President Emmanuel Macron or blow up decades of mainstream consensus in favour of far-right Marine Le Pen. Here’s what to expect from them on major issues: – THE ECONOMY: LE PEN: The far-right heiress has transformed the …

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By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed two Palestinian women on Sunday after one ran towards troops and the other stabbed a soldier in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Israeli security officials said. The bloodshed follows a string of deadly Arab attacks in Israel. There have also been Israeli raids in and …

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By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) – Sunday’s vote in France is the first round of a presidential election that will determine who runs the European Union’s second-largest economy as the war in Ukraine rages on the bloc’s doorstep. * WHAT HAPPENS WHEN? Some 48.7 million are registered to vote. The candidates who finish first and …

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By Khalil Ashawi and Tom Perry IDLIB, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Abdel Hamid al-Youssef said 25 members of his family, including his wife and infant twins, were killed when poison gas was dropped on their town in Syria in 2017, in an attack a U.N.-backed inquiry concluded was launched by the Syrian state.     “In seconds, …

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By Gloria Dickie and Dasha Afanasieva LONDON (Reuters) – Dozens of international scientists have arrived each year since 2000 at Russia’s remote Northeast Science Station on the Kolyma River in Siberia to study climate change in the Arctic environment. Not this year, though. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry froze …

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