SAO PAULO (Reuters) -At least two people died in Brazil after the roof of a church in the coastal city of Recife collapsed on Friday, city hall and state authorities said. The vice-governor of Pernambuco state, Priscila Krause, said around 20 people had received medical assistance after the collapse, adding that authorities do not believe …
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By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – Women’s heart disease risks and their need to start taking preventive medications should be evaluated when they are in their 30s rather than well after menopause as is now the practice, said researchers who published a study on Saturday. Presenting the findings at the European Society of Cardiology annual meeting …
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(Reuters) – NASA said on Friday it will replace two crew members for an upcoming SpaceX flight to accommodate the two astronauts aboard the International Space Station who had arrived on Boeing’s faulty Starliner capsule. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, both former military test pilots who launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, …
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By Aleksandar Vasovic and Fatos Bytyci BACKI PETROVAC, Serbia/RAHOVEC, Kosovo (Reuters) – Rastislav Pucovski held a fistful of soy beans shriveled to the size of peppercorns on his farmland in northern Serbia where the soil, dried to dust by drought, swirled in the wind. A brief rain shower, the first in over 40 days, offered …
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By Debora Ely PORTO ALEGRE (Reuters) – Four months after devastating flooding wrecked their house in southern Brazil, Milton do Nascimento and his family still have no permanent home and are sleeping rough under a highway bridge. The Nascimento family includes three pigs, 24 goats, two boars, five horses and 10 dogs – complicating their …
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(Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government has banned 169 non-governmental organizations for allegedly not complying with sector regulations, according to a resolution published on Thursday in the government gazette. The organizations included Save The Children Canada, religious groups, livestock and agricultural associations, and foundations fighting diseases such as cancer and HIV/AIDS. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The move represents …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israel told the United States that an initial review found that shots were fired at a World Food Programme (WFP) vehicle in the Gaza Strip after a “communication error” between Israeli military units, the deputy U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Thursday. “We have urged them …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a pot-smoking gun owner in Texas cannot be prosecuted for violating a federal ban on users of illegal drugs owning firearms, saying it is unconstitutional to disarm her based on her past drug habits. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of …
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran President Xiomara Castro accused Washington of interfering in local politics on Wednesday and ordered her foreign minister to “denounce” a bilateral extradition treaty after comments from the U.S. ambassador drew government criticism. “The interference and interventionism of the United States, as well as its intention to direct the politics of Honduras …
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By Christopher Bing (Reuters) – An Iranian hacking group ran a fake professional recruiting business to lure national security officials across Iran, Syria and Lebanon into a cyber espionage trap, according to new research by U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant, a division of Alphabet’s Google Cloud. Researchers said the hackers are loosely connected to a group …
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