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4th October
Bangladesh dengue deaths top 1,000 in worst outbreak
DHAKA (Reuters) – The death toll from Bangladesh’s worst dengue outbreak on record has topped 1,000 this year, official data showed, with hospitals struggling to make space for patients as the disease spreads rapidly in...
France kicks off bird flu vaccination despite trade backlash risk
PARIS (Reuters) -France began vaccinating ducks against bird flu on Monday to try and stem the virus that killed millions of birds worldwide, a move that prompted the United States to impose trade restrictions on French poultry imports. France has been among the countries worst affected by an unprecedented global spread of highly pathogenic avian...
Dutch climate minister calls for strong coalition to phase out fossil fuel subsidies
MADRID (Reuters) – Dutch Climate Minister Rob Jetten said on Monday he would work in coming weeks to set up a strong international coalition to phase out subsidies and tax breaks tied to the use of fossil fuels blamed for global warming. “An immediate phase-out of fossil fuel subsidies is complex, but we really have...
South Africa gives go-ahead for TotalEnergies to drill offshore
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -South Africa’s environment ministry has given the go-ahead for TotalEnergies to drill offshore for gas and oil, after rejecting an appeal from more than a dozen individuals and lobby groups who intend challenging the decision. The appeal to stop TotalEnergies from drilling in Block 5/6/7 off the Cape coast was the latest...
France races to stamp out bedbug ‘scourge’ before Olympics
PARIS (Reuters) – With the Paris Olympics less than a year away, French authorities want to make sure the bedbugs don’t bite during the games and have started a drive to exterminate the pests. Social media users have been publishing footage of the insects crawling around in high-speed trains and the Paris metro, alongside a...
WHO recommends malaria vaccine that will be rolled out next year
GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life-threatening disease spread to humans by some mosquitoes. “Almost exactly two years ago, WHO recommended the broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine called RTS,S,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in...
Pope Francis hints at slight opening to blessings of same-sex couples
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis has appeared to leave open the possibility of priests blessing same-sex couples, if they are limited, decided on a case-by-case basis and not confused with wedding ceremonies of heterosexuals. Francis made his opinion known in one answer to five questions from five conservative cardinals from Asia, Europe, Africa, the...
3rd October
Zimbabwe searches for mine survivors as relatives lose hope
CHEGUTU, Zimbabwe (Reuters) – Zimbabwean authorities were still searching on Monday for survivors trapped underground when a disused gold mine collapsed last week, as some relatives started to lose hope their loved ones could be saved. Accidents in disused mines are common in Zimbabwe, where artisanal or small-scale miners defy authorities by mining in old...
Trump reaped over $100 million through fraud, New York says as trial starts
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A defiant Donald Trump attacked New York’s attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as it began on Monday, with a state lawyer accusing the former president of generating more than $100 million by lying about his real estate empire. Attorney General Letitia James is seeking at least...
Death toll rises to 11 in Sunday Mexico church collapse
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) -The death toll from the collapse of a church roof during a Sunday Mass in northern Mexico has risen to 11, with around 60 others injured, officials said on Monday, as local authorities began wrapping up search and rescue efforts. Five women, two men and three children were among those killed at...
Support for Australia Indigenous referendum gaining slightly, poll shows
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Support for an Australian constitutional referendum on Indigenous rights and recognition has edged higher, according to a poll published on Tuesday, although a majority of voters still intend to vote no when polls close in less than two weeks. The latest Guardian Essential poll shows the yes vote rose two points to...
Bushfires in parts of southeast Australia amid spring heatwave
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A bushfire in Australia’s Victoria state more than trebled overnight and authorities urged residents in a remote part of Tasmania state to evacuate as a spring heatwave fanned fires across the country’s southeast. Around 17,000 hectares (66 square miles) were ablaze on Tuesday in the eastern part of Victoria state’s Gippsland region...
Kenya panel urges shutdown of Worldcoin’s crypto project within country
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan parliamentary panel called on the country’s information technology regulator on Monday to shut down the operations of cryptocurrency project Worldcoin within the country until more stringent regulations are put in place. The government suspended the project in early August following privacy objections over its scanning of users’...
Elon Musk’s X hit with trademark lawsuit from marketing agency
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – X Corp, formerly known as Twitter, was sued in federal court in Florida on Monday by a legal-marketing company that claims the social media giant’s new name infringes its trademark incorporating the letter “X.” The lawsuit by X Social Media claims that X Corp, which owner Elon Musk began rebranding...
More than 100 Amazon dolphins found dead, heat and drought blamed
By Bruno Kelly MANAUS (Reuters) – The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating on a tributary of the Amazon River since last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat. Low river levels during a severe drought have heated water in stretches to temperatures that are intolerable...
Drugmakers sign on to negotiate Medicare prices under protest
By Michael Erman and Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) – All the drugmakers that make the 10 prescription medicines subject to the first-ever price negotiations for the U.S. Medicare health program, including Amgen and Novartis, said they signed on to participate in the talks by the Oct. 1 deadline. The penalties for not doing so would have...
White House has been in touch with allies over potential delays in new Ukraine funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House has been in touch with allies and partners about continued funding for Ukraine and those conversations will continue, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said on Monday. Congress passed a stopgap bill on Saturday that extended government funding for more than a month and avoided a government shutdown but didn’t...
UK had joint-warmest September on record, says Met Office
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain last month experienced its joint-warmest September on record, facing temperatures that would have been “practically impossible” without human-induced climate change, its national weather forecaster said on Monday. The Met Office, citing provisional statistics, said September’s mean temperature of 15.2 degrees Celsius matched a record figure from 2006, making it the joint-highest...
Greenland women ask Denmark for compensation over involuntary birth control
By Johannes Birkebaek COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A group of women in Greenland are seeking compensation from Denmark over an involuntary birth control campaign launched in the 1960s, their lawyer said on Monday. With an official investigation by the governments of Greenland and its former colonial ruler Denmark not due to report until May 2025, the...
Mexico president slams US spending on Ukraine as ‘irrational’
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday panned U.S. military spending on Ukraine as “irrational,” stepping up criticism of the war effort as he urged Washington to devote more resources to helping Latin American countries. Lopez Obrador has long called on the United States to devote more funds to helping...
Louis Vuitton applies geometric patterns to tailored classics
By Mimosa Spencer PARIS (Reuters) – Louis Vuitton womenswear designer Nicolas Ghesquiere sent out a lineup of tailored styles with a geometric touch for the LVMH-owned label’s spring runway show, which was held in a gutted-out building on the famous Champs Elysees in Paris. Models strode down the runway in black and white checks, stripes,...
New Zealanders start voting in Oct. 14 general election
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealanders on Monday started voting for a new government as advance in-person balloting opened ahead of the Oct. 14 general election. Chief Electoral Officer Karl Le Quesne said in a statement that 400 polling places were open on Monday. “That number will increase as we head towards election day,” he said....
Australia PM rallies support for Indigenous referendum as early voting starts
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday he would focus on having one-on-one conversations with Australians to rally support for the Indigenous referendum, as early voting began in some parts of the country. In a landmark referendum, Australians will decide on Oct. 14 whether to approve altering the constitution to enshrine...
Argentina presidential candidates trade barbs in first debate
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The main candidates for Argentina’s presidency clashed in the first debate of the campaign on Sunday, trading barbs over who is to blame for the latest economic crises and how to end decades of economic malaise. Under Argentine law, two mandatory debates have to be held before the 22 October presidential...
Would-be EU climate policy chief seeks green light from lawmakers
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Former Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra will try to convince European Parliament lawmakers on Monday to approve him as the EU’s next head of climate change policy, responsible for emissions-cutting measures in the world’s third-biggest economy. Hoekstra faces a three-hour hearing in the European Parliament’s environment committee on Monday evening, seeking approval...
Zelenskiy says nothing will weaken Kyiv’s resolve against Russia
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a speech released on Sunday that nothing would weaken his country’s fight against Russia, a day after the U.S. Congress passed a stopgap funding bill that omitted aid to Ukraine. Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said separately he had received reassurances about further military assistance in a...
Russia could target any British soldiers training troops in Ukraine – Medvedev
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday any British soldiers training Ukrainian troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets for Russian forces, as would German factories producing Taurus missiles should they supply Kyiv. Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and has become an increasingly hawkish and anti-Western figure in...
UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh as ethnic Armenian exodus nears end
(Reuters) -A United Nations mission arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijani media reported, as a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region began drawing to a close following a Azerbaijani military offensive last month. The mission, led by a senior U.N. aid official, is the global body’s first access to the region in about...
Thailand to inject $15.2 billion into economy through digital wallet plan – PM
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Monday his government would inject 560 billion baht ($15.23 billion) into the economy next year through its signature digital wallet policy. The stimulus will be driven by the key plank of Srettha’s Pheu Thai Party’s electoral platform, where each citizen over 16 will receive a...
UN vote on foreign police mission to Haiti set for Monday
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on Monday to approve the deployment of foreign police to Haiti and authorize the use of force to help the Caribbean country fight violent gangs that have largely overrun the capital Port-au-Prince. A U.S.-drafted resolution, seen by Reuters, would also expand a U.N....
