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By Nandhini Srinivasan and Khushi Mandowara (Reuters) – More than 109,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending January 2023, a slight increase from the previous year, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday. The figure is up 0.7% from 107,764 overdoses recorded in the 12-month period ending January 2022, according to U.S. data. The increase comes […]

By Nandhini Srinivasan and Khushi Mandowara (Reuters) – More than 109,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending January 2023, a slight increase from the previous year, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday. The figure is up 0.7% from 107,764 overdoses recorded in the 12-month period ending January 2022, according to U.S. data. The increase comes […]

MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish startup PLD Space has signed a memorandum of understanding with France’s Arianespace to develop joint services to launch small satellites into orbit, the Spanish company said on Wednesday. The agreement will allow PLD Space to offer its customisable services to Arianespace customers, it said in a statement. PLD Space hopes to start commercial activity in 2025 and plans to make a first suborbital test in the next […]

MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish startup PLD Space has signed a memorandum of understanding with France’s Arianespace to develop joint services to launch small satellites into orbit, the Spanish company said on Wednesday. The agreement will allow PLD Space to offer its customisable services to Arianespace customers, it said in a statement. PLD Space hopes to start commercial activity in 2025 and plans to make a first suborbital test in the next […]

By Nandhini Srinivasan and Khushi Mandowara (Reuters) – More than 109,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending January 2023, a slight increase from the previous year, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday. The figure is up 0.7% from 107,764 overdoses recorded in the 12-month period ending January 2022, according to U.S. data. The increase comes […]

By Nandhini Srinivasan and Khushi Mandowara (Reuters) – More than 109,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending January 2023, a slight increase from the previous year, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday. The figure is up 0.7% from 107,764 overdoses recorded in the 12-month period ending January 2022, according to U.S. data. The increase comes […]

CAIRO (Reuters) – Fighting rocked several vulnerable cities in western Sudan on Wednesday in an expansion of the country’s almost two-month-old war as the number of people who have fled their homes rose above two million. The war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has caused a humanitarian crisis in Khartoum, as well as cities including El Obeid, Nyala, El Fashir, and El Geneina, where more than […]

(Refiles with correct dateline spelling) By Vitalii Hnidyi STOROZHEVE, Ukraine (Reuters) -The road into the newly liberated Ukrainian village of Storozheve is lined with the corpses of Russian soldiers and burnt-out armoured vehicles. The grisly scenes bear witness to the ferocity of fighting as Ukrainian troops recaptured Storozheve and several other villages in the past few days as part of a counteroffensive in southern and eastern Ukraine. Some of the […]

PRISTINA/BELGRADE (Reuters) -Three Kosovo police officers were detained by Serbian forces on Wednesday but officials from Kosovo and Serbia gave different locations for the arrest, accusing each other of crossing the border illegally. Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti demanded the release of the three officers. He said they had been arrested 300 metres inside Kosovan territory, near the border with Serbia. “The entry of Serbian forces into the territory of […]