(Reuters) -Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human transmission and turn into a new pandemic. Cases of the disease in mammals have mostly been detected in the Americas and Europe. Sheep were added to the list …
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By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) – A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won praise internationally but signs are emerging of a domestic political blowback. His conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have long seen themselves as …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan about OPEC+ cooperation and Russia-U.S. talks on Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Monday. The presidents “gave a positive assessment” of the level of Russia-UAE strategic cooperation and advocated for “close coordination” within the OPEC+ producer group, …
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By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – Working groups for Germany’s election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a possible coalition on Monday, a step toward forming a government and bridging differences over issues such as migration. Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to forge a ruling coalition with the SPD by April 20 …
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OSLO (Reuters) – German startup Isar Aerospace said on Monday it has postponed the launch of a space rocket from Norway due to adverse weather conditions and will try again at a later time. The Spectrum rocket is intended to become the first orbital flight to originate from Europe, where several nations, including Sweden and …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Online services of Ukraine’s state-owned railway Ukrzaliznytsia are not working due to a technical failure, the company said on Sunday, providing no additional details. “Ticket sales via the app and website, online ordering services and reference services are temporarily not working,” the company said on Telegram messenger. After the Russian invasion in …
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(Reuters) – Gjert Ingebrigtsen, father and former coach of Norwegian runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen, pleaded not guilty on Monday as his trial began in which he stands accused of physically abusing two of his children, including the two-times Olympic champion. The 59-year-old faces up to six years in prison, with the trial expected to run until …
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By Joanna Plucinska, Doyinsola Oladipo and Ilona Wissenbach LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Danish traveller Kennet Brask loved his fishing trip to Florida two years ago and was planning to return this year. But after watching U.S. President Donald Trump’s explosive meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the White House, he called it off. “When I saw …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A former Russian deputy defence minister went on trial in Moscow on Monday in the first of a series of cases that signal a drive by President Vladimir Putin to punish corruption in the armed forces. Timur Ivanov was arrested in April last year on suspicion of taking bribes, and investigators added new …
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(Reuters) – A Russian Orthodox priest has been sentenced to 14 days in custody over a 2014 photo in which he was shown with a Ukrainian flag, according to the cleric’s own account and Russian media reports. Nikolai Savchenko posted on social media that police had come to his church to arrest him. A court …
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