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(Reuters) The Biden administration is reviewing how it can get money to Florida school districts if the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, makes good on threats to withhold pay from school leaders who require masks for students.

(Reuters) Seven Sudanese people were killed and 16 others were wounded last week when armed men attacked a village in South Darfur, a group representing hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the Darfur conflict said on Tuesday.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea said South Korea and the United States are risking a “huge security crisis” by choosing to escalate tensions, North Korea state media have reported, citing a top Workers’ Party official.

(Reuters) – The United Nations panel on climate change told the world today that global warming was dangerously close to being out of control – and that humans were “unequivocally” to blame.

(Reuters) – Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the United States are at a six-month high, fueled by the rapid spread of the Delta variant across swathes of the country grappling with low vaccination rates.

(Reuters) – Thousands of people have fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day on Sunday, and ferries were on standby for more evacuations after taking many to safety by sea.

(Reuters) – COVID-19 vaccinations should be required for U.S. teachers to protect students who are too young to be inoculated, the head of the nation’s second-largest teachers’ union said on Sunday, shifting course to back mandated shots as more children fall ill.

(Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will discuss COVID-19 vaccines with U.S.

(Reuters) – A former assistant who filed a criminal complaint against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo last week on accusations he groped her in the Executive Mansion in Albany is speaking publicly for the first time in a televised interview to be broadcast on Monday, saying the governor “needs to be held accountable.”

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Fires blazed uncontrolled for a fifth day in Greece on Saturday, ravaging swathes of land on its second-biggest island of Evia where hundreds of people had to be evacuated by ferry and locals joined firefighters in battling the flames.

TRAPANI, Italy, (Reuters) – A ship carrying 257 migrants docked in the Italian port of Trapani on Saturday almost a week after rescuing the people from international waters off Tunisia.

KABUL, (Reuters) – An Afghan Air Force pilot was killed by a bomb in Kabul on Saturday, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States on Saturday condemned a thwarted plot to attack Myanmar’s U.N.

(UCLA) – When new mothers complain that all those sleepless nights caring for their newborns are taking years off their life, they just might be right, UCLA research published this summer in the journal Sleep Health suggests.

By Amanda Hughes, Neil Davies and Sean Harrison (The Conversation) – There’s a widespread belief that your testosterone can affect where you end up in life.

(University of Oxford) – A study involving nearly half a million people in China reveals a clear link between cooking with wood or coal, and an increased risk of major eye diseases that can lead to blindness, according to a report published in PLOS Medicine.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents captured an Afghan provincial capital and killed the government’s senior media officer in Kabul yesterday amid a deteriorating security situation as U.S.

(Reuters) – Nichole Atherton couldn’t take it anymore. The intensive care nurse watched helplessly last year as COVID-19 sufferers died in her Mississippi hospital – slowly, painfully and alone.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former employee who accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of groping her in the Executive Mansion in Albany has filed a criminal complaint with the Albany County sheriff’s department, the department said yesterday.

(Reuters) – United Airlines Inc yesterday became the first U.S. airline to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all domestic employees, joining a swelling list of companies mandating jabs for workers as coronavirus cases rise.