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Respiratory syncytial virus kills 100,000 under-fives every year
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Respiratory syncytial virus is killing 100,000 children under the age of five every year worldwide, new figures reveal as experts say the global easing of coronavirus restrictions is causing a surge in cases. RSV is t...
‘The job kills any life really’: secrets of a UK airport security officer
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Antisocial work hours, long days on your feet, and dealing with impatient and sometimes unpleasant passengers. Such is the life of an airport security officer. Their role is to check passengers and their luggage befor...
Car crash kills Papua New Guinea’s deputy PM, Sam Basil
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Papua New Guinea’s deputy prime minister, Sam Basil, has died after a car crash, police have said. Basil died in hospital while awaiting airlift to Port Moresby late on Wednesday after the crash, which took place in t...
Wild fox infiltrates flamingos’ pen at Washington’s National zoo and kills 25
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A wild fox in Washington DC, has chewed through a fence at the National zoo and killed 25 flamingos in the worst animal attack there in two decades. On Tuesday, zoo officials announced that in addition to the 25 Ameri...
Blast at Kabul mosque kills more than 50 worshippers
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A powerful explosion has killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, the latest of a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during Ramadan. The blast hit the Khalifa Sahib mos...
Mali: military operation in Sahel kills more than 200, says army
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Mali’s army says that it has killed 203 militants in an operation in the centre of Sahel state, in an uptick in violence in the conflict-torn country. The army said on Friday the nine-day military operation beginning ...
Russian attack on Kharkiv kills Holocaust survivor, 96
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A 96-year-old man who survived a string of Nazi concentration camps including Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen has been killed by an explosion during the Russian assault on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, a spokesperson fo...
Russia missile strike on Ukraine base close to Polish border kills 35, governor says
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Russia has escalated its war in Ukraine with a strike on a major military base close to the Polish border killing at least 35 people and injuring 134 more, according to the governor of the Lviv region. The attack happ...
Camel kills two men after escaping Tennessee petting zoo
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A camel killed two men after escaping a petting zoo in Tennessee, a county sheriff said. Officials from the Obion county sheriff’s office said the fatal incident unfolded around 5.44pm on Thursday, when they “receive...
Iowa tornado kills seven people, including two children
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Seven people were killed Saturday, including two children, when a tornado swept through central Iowa, damaging buildings and knocking down trees and power lines, authorities said. Emergency management officials in Mad...
Avalanche in Austria kills four near Swiss border
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Four people have died and one person was missing after several avalanches struck Austria’s Tyrol province. “It was one of 13 avalanches today in Tyrol … It happened off-piste” near the border with Switzerland, Patrick...
West Virginians scramble to get by after Manchin kills child tax credits
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Last fall, Krista Greene missed a week of work after her sons were exposed to Covid and could not return to school. Greene, who manages a tutoring center and yoga studio in Charleston, West Virginia, does not receive ...
Bird flu outbreak in Israel kills 5,000 cranes and sparks slaughter of half a million chickens
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A bird flu outbreak in northern Israel has killed at least 5,200 migratory cranes and forced farmers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chickens as authorities try to contain what they say is the deadliest wildlife...
Hamas gunman kills one and injures four in Jerusalem’s Old City
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A Hamas militant opened fire in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, killing one and wounding four others before Israeli police fatally shot him. It was not immediately clear whether Hamas, an Islamic militant group sworn ...
Car bombing kills pregnant Yemeni journalist in Aden – reports
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A pregnant Yemeni journalist has been killed in a car explosion in Aden, witnesses and medical sources said, in the latest incident of violence in Yemen’s southern port city. An initial police investigation indicated ...
‘Smoking kills’ could be printed on every cigarette under new proposals
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Individual cigarettes could have “smoking kills” printed on them under a raft of tough measures proposed by MPs to encourage more people to quit the deadly habit. MPs have submitted an amendment to the health and care...