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SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has spread more aggressively than ever before in wild birds and marine mammals since arriving in South America in 2022, raising the risk of it evolving into a bigger threat to humans, according to interviews with eight scientists.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A deepening rift between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza red lines has set up a potential showdown between the two leaders and raised questions about whether the U.S.

 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden won enough delegates yesterday to seal the Democratic Party’s nomination, with a face-off against former President Donald Trump looming in what would be the first U.S.

SYDNEY/SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Investigators from Chile’s aviation authority are headed to New Zealand to head up the probe into a sudden midair dive by a LATAM Airlines LTM.SN

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan’s Space One’s small, solid-fuelled Kairos rocket exploded shortly after launch on its inaugural trip last night  as the firm tried to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite in orbit.

(Reuters) – Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped 61 people from a village in northern Kaduna state, days after nearly 300 students went missing in an attack by an armed gang, residents said yesterday.

PUNTO FIJO/CARACAS/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Iran and Venezuela are trying to patch together an oil alliance that began to fray last year, according to six people familiar with the matter, after the South American country fell behind on oil swaps that had boosted crude exports and helped stem domestic fuel shortages.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Ukraine pounded targets in Russia today with dozens of drones and rockets in an attack that inflicted serious damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world’s biggest nuclear power with armed proxies.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israel was checking yesterday whether it had killed Hamas’s deputy military leader in an airstrike in Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said, as prospects faded for a ceasefire to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

(Reuters) – At least 50 people were hurt when a Boeing 787 operated by LATAM Airlines LTM.SN

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India moved yesterday to implement a 2019 citizenship law that has been criticised as discriminating against Muslims, weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) is likely to lose its parliamentary majority in May for the first time since Nelson Mandela led it to power at the fall of apartheid 30 years ago, a survey showed, opening up the prospect of coalition rule.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed seven Academy Awards including the prestigious best picture trophy yesterday as Hollywood celebrated a triumphant year in film.

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign minister, responding to Pope Francis’s call to show “the courage of the white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia, said on Sunday that Kyiv would never capitulate and told the Vatican to pay special heed to its role in World War Two.

CAIRO (Reuters) – U.S., French and British forces downed dozens of drones in the Red Sea area overnight and on Saturday after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis targeted bulk carrier Propel Fortune and U.S.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza (Reuters) – Palestinians prepared for Ramadan in sombre mood with heightened security measures by Israeli police and the spectre of war and hunger in Gaza overshadowing the normally festive Muslim holy month as talks to secure a ceasefire stalled.

PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday for the first time that he backed new end-of-life legislation that would allow what he called “help to die” and wanted his government to put forward a draft bill to parliament in May.

CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza,  (Reuters) –  Efforts to secure a deal on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza are ongoing, Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad said yesterday, despite dimming hopes for a truce during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

ROME, Georgia,  (Reuters) – A defiant and bitter Donald Trump returned yesterday to the state where he faces criminal charges for undermining the 2020 U.S.

GRIFFITH, Australia, (Reuters) –  Millions of vines are being destroyed in Australia and tens of millions more must be pulled up to rein in overproduction that has crushed grape prices and threatens the livelihoods of growers and wine makers.