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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration said on Tuesday it was closely monitoring the probe into a deadly Israeli airstrike it called tragic, but that the recent deaths in Rafah didn’t constitute a major ground operation there that crosses any U.S. red lines. “The Israelis have said this is a tragic mistake,” National …

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By Diego Vara PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of students in southern Brazil have been gone a month without seeing their classrooms after catastrophic floods submerged some schools and turned others into shelters, raising concerns about their mental health. Of Rio Grande do Sul state’s more than 2,000 public schools, nearly a …

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By Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mexico City’s then-Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum made a point of always donning a face mask and firmly recommending others also do so as the virus devastated Mexico. By contrast, her political patron President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador refused to wear a …

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TBILISI (Reuters) – Armenian police detained 137 protesters who were blocking streets in Yerevan as part of a series of anti-government protests, Russia’s TASS news agency cited the Interior Ministry as saying on Monday. Protesters calling for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation have been gathering weekly in the Armenian capital since April. The demonstrations, which …

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GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, said on Monday that reports of attacks on families seeking shelter in Rafah in the southern tip of the Gaza Strip were “horrifying”. “Information coming out of Rafah about further attacks on families seeking shelter is horrifying,” UNRWA wrote on X. “There are reports of …

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By Julie Steenhuysen and Jennifer Rigby CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters) – The United States and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 bird flu vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk poultry and dairy workers, veterinarians and lab technicians, government officials said, moves influenza experts say could curb the threat of a pandemic. U.S …

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(Reuters) – Twice PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray’s death on Saturday at the age of 30 was by suicide, his parents said on Sunday. American Murray’s death came a day after he withdrew from the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas. The PGA Tour considered postponing play but Murray’s parents wanted the tournament to …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The third heat wave suffocating dozens of states in Mexico could give way on Sunday to torrential rains, hail and even whirlwinds during the afternoon in the center of the country, meteorologists said. The warning came after the capital registered another record-breaking maximum of 34.7 Celsius (94.5 Fahrenheit) the day before. …

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