Guy Hedgecoe
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BBCBlanca Castro puts on a builder’s helmet before opening the door to her kitchen. Inside it, the ceiling has a large hole that is dripping water and it looks as if…
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Spain tackles housing ‘social emergency’ as rents double
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IMF expands technical support for economic reforms in Ukraine
By expanding technical support, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is deepening cooperation with Ukraine in economic and financial reforms.
The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian Finance Ministry, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
The Steering Committee of the…
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City-killer asteroid chances of hitting Moon increase slightly
NASA has raised the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4, a fast-moving object roughly the size of a 10-story building, could hit the Moon in December 2032. While the chance is still small, the updated forecast does note an increased impact risk that the city-killer asteroid will strike the…
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Children Among The Victims Of Russian Strike On Kryvyi Rih
A Russian missile attack struck the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on April 4, leaving at least 16 dead, including six children. The strike hit buildings and an area with a playground in a residential neighborhood.
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Russia Seeks To Fill Ranks With Raids And ‘Comfortable Waiting Rooms’
Lycra-clad bodies sprawled on the floor of a Moscow fitness center while masked police in riot gear strode among them checking identity papers and migration status.
The March 31 raid ended with immigrants being rounded up and taken to a military recruitment office.
The raid — one of several…
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Trump administration cuts funding for Ukrainian literature translations at Harvard
The US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has terminated a grant for publishing Ukrainian literature in English translation at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), citing a repurposing of funds “in furtherance of the President’s agenda,” according to Oleh Kotsyuba, Director of…
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Trump’s Tariffs Will Make Medical Devices More Expensive
At a Medtronic assembly plant in Tijuana, Mexico, in 2014, employees work on a stent graft production line.
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Pacemakers. Insulin pumps. Hearing aids. These are just some of the basic medical devices that hospitals and patients rely on—and that could see higher prices due to…
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Trump order gives TikTok a 75-day extension after US buyer talks sour over China tariffs
The Chinese-owned platform was facing a ban in the US in January but Donald Trump granted an extension in order to broker new American ownership.
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Critically endangered tortoises hatched for the first time in zoo’s 150-year history
Four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises have hatched for the first time in the Philadelphia Zoo’s 150-year history….
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Such Russian strikes cannot be accident
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that such Russian attacks as the one on Kherson CHP on Friday could not be an accident.
The head of the Ukrainian state said this in his evening address, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“Today, in Kherson, there was a new…
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