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By Alison Withers COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -More than 62,700 people died in Europe from heat-related causes in 2024, according to research published in Nature Medicine on Monday, with women and the elderly representing the largest part of the death toll. Researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, known as ISGlobal, who obtained daily mortality records …

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By Katy Daigle and Simon Jessop NEW YORK (Reuters) -Speakers at Climate Week NYC delivered a clear message to world leaders on Monday: the global energy transition is happening now and it’s happening fast, at the event which brings together leaders, advocates and the U.N. General Assembly. The U.N.’s top climate official opened a morning …

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(Reuters) -Several world leaders are expected to formally recognise a Palestinian state on Monday at a summit in New York convened by France and Saudi Arabia, a move Israel says will undermine the prospects of a peaceful ending to the war in Gaza. Here are some reactions: FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER JEAN-NOEL BARROT: “The recognition of …

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By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse OBERGOMS, Switzerland (Reuters) -Switzerland’s 5.4 km-long Gries Glacier, a focal point for research, is retreating at an alarming pace as climate change accelerates an unprecedented ice melt across the country, the Swiss glacier monitoring service said. “This is a dying glacier,” said Matthias Huss, Director of Glacier Monitoring Switzerland …

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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Russia is reviving Soviet-era tactics such as forced psychiatric treatment to silence dissenters and anti-war voices in an increasingly repressive environment, a U.N. expert said on Monday. Rights groups say President Vladimir Putin’s government has lurched further into authoritarianism since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years …

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By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) -European Union enlargement commissioner Marta Kos on Monday urged Bosnia to speed up reforms needed for the Balkan country to progress on its EU integration path, during a visit that has been boycotted by Bosnia’s Serb community. Last year the EU invited Bosnia and Herzegovina to open EU membership negotiations, …

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