By Phil Stewart and Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday left open the possibility of more strikes against Iran-linked groups if attacks against American forces in Iraq and Syria don’t stop, hours after overnight U.S. air strikes in Syria. The U.S. military carried out its third air strike in …
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(Reuters) – The United Auto Workers (UAW) production workers at Ford’s Louisville assembly and Kentucky truck plants have voted against a proposed four-and-a-half year contract, while the skilled trades workers voted in favor of the deal, the union’s local unit said on Facebook. The UAW Local 862 union said that 55% of the production workers voted …
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(Reuters) – Canadian emissions monitoring company GHGSat on Saturday launched a satellite aimed at detecting carbon dioxide emissions from individual facilities like coal plants and steel mills from space for the first time. The satellite, named Vanguard, launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, GHGSat said. Space-age technology is increasingly being used to hold …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A child is killed on average every 10 minutes in the Gaza Strip, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the United Nations Security Council on Friday, warning: “Nowhere and no one is safe.” He said that half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals and two-thirds of its primary …
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By Johannes Birkebaek COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Global warming has increased the speed at which glaciers in Greenland are melting by fivefold over the last 20 years, scientists from the University of Copenhagen said on Friday. Greenland’s ice melt is of particular concern, as the ancient ice sheet holds enough water to raise sea levels by …
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By Monica Machicao and Sergio Limachi COJATA, Bolivia (Reuters) – The exposed cracked floors of parts of Lake Titicaca, South America’s largest body of fresh water and the highest navigable lake in the world nestled amid the Andes mountains, are an alarming sight for local farmer Manuel Flores. His crops are parched, nearby water wells …
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By Crispian Balmer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The executive director of Israeli media advocacy group HonestReporting said on Friday he accepted as “adequate” the denials by four media organisations that they had no previous knowledge of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, adding he was “so relieved”. Reuters, the Associated Press, CNN and The New York …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A spokesperson for Israel’s foreign ministry said on Friday that the death toll from the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel had been revised to around 1,200 from a previous government estimate of 1,400. “Around 1,200 is the official number of victims of the October 7 massacre,” spokesperson Lior Haiat said in …
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By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 1,000 officials in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have signed an open letter urging the Biden administration to call for an immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters. The letter is …
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AMMAN (Reuters) -The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday that Israel must take immediate measures to protect Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as they find themselves targeted by more violence since the Israeli-Hamas war erupted last month. Volker Turk said at least 176 Palestinians, including 43 children and one woman, had …
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