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Premature babies born as early as just 22 weeks will now be resuscitated, according to new guidelines issued by doctors. Major medical advances now mean survival chances for extremely premature babies are better than ever before. The number of extremely premature babies who are treated and survived has doubled in just over a decade, the guidelines reveal. And so the […]
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Agreement resulted from mediation efforts by Egypt and Iran to satisfy Turkish demands that Syria end support for PKK. Turkey and Syria signed an agreement in the Turkish city of Adana in 1998 that defused tension that brought the two nations to the brink of war. The Syrian-Turkish relationship had been tense since the end of WWI and the demarcation of […]
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President Donald Trump’s lawyers are ready to urge a federal appeals court to reverse a lower-court’s conclusion that his tax returns can be turned over to state prosecutors. The lawyers will appear before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Wednesday morning to urge a three-judge panel to reject the judge’s conclusions that Trump can’t stand in […]
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has discussed a $2 billion to $3 billion settlement with Goldman Sachs over the U.S. bank’s alleged role in the 1MDB scandal, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, less than half the sum the Southeast Asian nation had demanded earlier. Investigators in Malaysia and the United States say about $4.5 billion was misappropriated from the now-defunct state […]
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday hailed the Senate’s approval of a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s pension system as a launch pad for the wider economy, although voting on the last few remaining amendments was delayed to the following day. Pension reform is seen by the government and many economists as crucial to stabilizing Brazil’s public […]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prospects for an end to Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria were better than a week ago, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Syria said on Tuesday, but a permanent ceasefire would depend on both sides meeting the terms of last week’s temporary ceasefire agreement. “We’re in a better place now than we were a […]
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A massive fire at a convention center under construction at a casino complex in Auckland was still spewing thick smoke across New Zealand’s largest city on Wednesday, forcing road closures and keeping workers away almost 24 hours after it started. The fire had prompted an evacuation of SkyCity Entertainment Group’s entire complex, including hotels, casinos and restaurants […]
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BBC Weather has warned of heavy downpours and potential flooding in eastern Europe, namely over France and Spain. BBC Weather forecast Stav Danaos explained the wet weather and cloudy conditions will be of contrast to the east of Europe that will see warm and dry conditions for the next few days. The wet low-pressure weather front in the east will […]
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A bumper harvest of DEATH: It’s a perfect year for fungi foragers… if you can dodge the killers cropping up in abundance in Britain’s woodlands Hours of autumn sunshine after months of rain means that the fields are full Fungi are also extremely beneficial for the survival of their surrounding plants They may look harmless but Britain is home to […]
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Rome: Pope Francis's landmark conference on Catholicism in the Amazon has taken a vindictive twist after indigenous Amazonian fertility statuettes were stolen from a church near St Peter's Basilica and hurled into the Tiber. The Tiber River in the Vatican, in Rome,Credit:AP The theft was carried out by ultra-conservative Catholics who viewed the female fertility figures as being pagan. One conservative […]
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