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Ukraine and its international partners will create a strategic reserve of energy equipment to help repair damaged infrastructure during the winter, Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said after talks in Brussels. Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s power plants, substations, and transmission infrastructure since the start of its full-scale invasion, launching large-scaleContinue Reading

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Marwan Bishara says Israel’s assassination of Larijani is calculated to prolong the war and bring about regime change., Israel killed Larijani hoping to ‘torpedo’ chance of US-Iran talks Quotable “[It] is not exactly normal behaviour by a state to continuously have a programme of assassinations.” Marwan Bishara, senior political analystContinue Reading

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Getty Images A judge sided with medical groups who said Kennedy’s changes to vaccines had violated federal law A federal judge on Monday blocked the US government from making sweeping changes to childhood immunisations, in a blow to Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s agenda. Since taking office a yearContinue Reading

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With oil selling  for around $100 a barrel and the price in the United States of gasoline at the pump having increased 20% in two weeks, Americans have been thrust back into a 1970s-style mix of oil and insecurity in the Persian Gulf. The crises of the 1970s began with an oil embargoContinue Reading