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Norway will spend $6 million per year until the end of the decade stocking up on grain as the COVID-19 pandemic, a war in Europe and climate change have made it necessary, the government said Friday. Starting next year, Norway will start storing 15,000 tons of grain and do so yearly until 2028 or 2029, […]

Pakistan’s prime minister has paid tribute to the commandos and volunteers who rescued six children and two adults from the broken cable car where they dangled over a valley in a 16-hour ordeal. At the ceremony Thursday in Islamabad with the eight rescued people in attendance, caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar embraced the rescuers and […]

The sprawling U.N. compound in Geneva was briefly shut down Friday after an intruder broke through the security perimeter, a spokesperson said. Alessandra Vellucci said the incident lasted no more than about half an hour, and that U.N. security teams and Geneva police were investigating. She declined to identify the “intruder” or say whether he […]

A 68-year-old man woke up in his home to find a snake around his leg, which he bit in self-defense.  “I was so desperate that I even bit it, but it worked, and I was able to break free,” Sarayuth Malachan, a security guard who lives in Thailand, told Viral Press. “It felt like I […]

Reports that a Russian general who has been missing from the public eye since the Wagner Group uprising has now been fired could be a Russian disinformation operation. The fate of Russian Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who earned the nickname “General Armageddon” while serving as the head of the air force, has been the subject of […]

Two men were arrested Thursday on suspicion of torching an historic British pub in central England that was famous for its lopsided walls and sagging foundation, police said. The suspects were being questioned by Staffordshire Police about the Aug. 5 blaze that gutted the 18th century Crooked House pub in the village of Himley, 110 […]

A 40-year-old man suffered a medical episode and died Wednesday at the United Kingdom’s largest outdoor water park. In a statement to the Mirror by Devon and Cornwall Police, officials confirmed the man was having a suspected medical episode at Splashdown Quaywest in Paignton, United Kingdom. “Police were contacted by the Ambulance Service just after […]

The Canadian regulator responsible for implementing the country’s online news law on Thursday said it will start setting up a framework for negotiations between news organizations and internet giants this autumn, with the aim of initiating mandatory bargaining by early 2025. Canada’s Online News Act, part of a global trend to make tech firms like […]

Vaccine manufacturer Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL) expects to commercially launch its dengue fever vaccine by early 2026, a top executive said, as the race to develop the country’s first such vaccine heats up. Dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, has over the last few years become a major public health concern in India, with 31,464 dengue cases […]

An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the southern Polish city of Rzeszow has killed five people so far, a doctor said on Thursday, as authorities scrambled to find the source of the bacterial infection, which they believed was in the water supply. The most common form of transmission is inhalation of contaminated aerosols produced in […]