Biden administration proposes free over-the-counter birth control

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would provide women with private insurance access to over-the-counter birth control pills and other contraceptives at no cost, the White House said on Monday. The rule, which expands a federal mandate requiring health insurers to cover preventative care services at no …

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Militants kill seven, including six migrant workers, in India’s Kashmir

By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR (Reuters) -At least six migrant workers and a doctor were shot dead in India’s Kashmir region on Sunday night when militants opened fire near a tunnel construction site, officials said, days after a new government was formed in the territory. An opposition alliance took power in the region this month after …

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Iran complains to UN nuclear watchdog about Israeli threats to its atomic sites, spokesman says

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran has written to the U.N. nuclear watchdog to complain about Israeli threats to strike its atomic energy sites, its foreign ministry spokesman said at a weekly news conference on Monday. Israel has vowed to attack Iran in retaliation for a volley of Iranian missiles on Oct. 1, stirring widespread speculation that Iranian …

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STOXX 600 subdued with key earnings on tap; energy shares jump

By Paolo Laudani and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) -European shares struggled for direction on Monday, after two back-to-back weekly gains, ahead of a series of marquee corporate earnings, although stabilising oil prices buoyed the energy sector. The continent-wide STOXX 600 was unchanged at 0845 GMT, having swung between slight gains and losses. The index ended higher …

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As poor nations’ default wave peaks, cash shortage could take its place

By Libby George and Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) -The punishing post-COVID wave of sovereign defaults has finally crested, with the likes of Ghana, Sri Lanka and Zambia concluding years of painful debt reworks. But the International Monetary Fund and others worry that a dangerous liquidity shortfall could take its place in many emerging economies – …

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China Development Bank former VP given 12 years in jail, fine for bribery

BEIJING (Reuters) – The former vice president of China Development Bank (CDB) Wang Yongsheng has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment and fined two million yuan ($280,000) for accepting bribes, state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday. Wang was found to have abused his position at CDB, China’s largest policy bank, to provide assistance to entities …

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Kremlin says Moldova’s elections were not free and results raise many questions

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moldova’s election was not free and the results showed a “hard-to-explain” increase of votes in favour of President Maia Sandu and the European Union, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday. “What we see is a mechanically hard-to-explain rate of increase in votes in favour of Sandu and in favour of those referendum …

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