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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s prime minister said on Friday his Hungarian counterpart had assured him that Budapest would not delay the Nordic country’s NATO accession, following reports that Hungary’s parliament would delay a ratification of the membership. Sweden applied last year to join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but Turkey and Hungary have so …

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HOUSTON (Reuters) – Rapper Travis Scott will not face criminal charges in the deaths of 10 fans at a 2021 concert in Houston, according to local media reports on Thursday. A Texas grand jury meeting in Houston declined to prefer charges against Scott in the deaths of the 10 who were crushed in the crowd …

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By Nathan Gomes (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved BioMarin Pharmaceutical’s gene therapy for severe hemophilia A, the company said, giving patients with the inherited bleeding disorder an alternative to regular injections of missing blood proteins. It priced the one-time therapy, Roctavian, at $2.9 million. Pivotal trial results showed that Roctavian …

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By Jennifer Rigby, Richa Naidu LONDON (Reuters) -One of the world’s most common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, according to two sources with knowledge of the process, pitting it against the food industry and regulators. Aspartame, used in products from Coca-Cola diet …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland expects the European Union to help it fund measures to strengthen its eastern border, a deputy minister said on Thursday, after Warsaw announced a tightening of security due to concerns over the presence of the Wagner group in Belarus. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to offer troops from the private military …

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(Reuters) -Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has flown into exile in Belarus under a deal that ended a brief mutiny by his Wagner fighters in Russia, as President Vladimir Putin praised his own army for averting a civil war. Following are some facts about the businessman and founder of the Wagner Group. * With aggressive PR, …

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By Ismail Shakil and Steve Gorman OTTAWA (Reuters) -Presumed human remains and debris from the tourist submersible crushed to pieces in an undersea implosion that killed all five people aboard were recovered from the ocean bottom and brought ashore to Canada on Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The possible remains and shattered bits of …

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By Daina Beth Solomon and Laura Gottesdiener NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) – The U.S. government is restarting asylum appointments at a dangerous Mexican border town, according to Customs and Borders Protection (CBP), just days after U.S. officials suspended the scheduling of appointments there because drug cartels were extorting migrants. The reversal comes after more than …

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By Max Hunder DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – As Russia’s invasion enters its 17th month, Ukrainian forces say Moscow is ramping up its use of low-cost suicide drones that are capable of destroying equipment many times their value and not easy to defend against. The Lancet drone, an angular grey tube with two sets of …

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