Author: Bharat Scoop Team
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Putin accuses Ukraine of terrorist act in Russian village
Moscow- Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that a Ukrainian sabotage group entered a Russian border region on Thursday and opened fire on civilians in a “terrorist act”, according to a media report. Earlier, the Governor of Bryansk region had said that “saboteurs from Ukraine” had fired at a civilian car in Lyubechane, a border village,…
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Floods raise cholera risk even as cases decline in Africa: WHO
Brazzaville (Congo) – As weekly cholera cases in the affected African countries decline, heavy flooding due to seasonal rains and tropical cyclones in southern Africa are raising the risk of the disease spreading and threatening to undermine outbreak control efforts, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday. Newly-confirmed cholera cases fell to 2,880 in the…
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Kenya loses 2.61 mn livestock to drought
Nairobi – Kenya has lost some 2.61 million livestock to drought in the past months as the crisis worsens in arid and semi-arid areas, the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) said in a report on Thursday. The NDMA said the number is about 5 per cent of all the animals in arid and semi-arid areas, which…
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Child suicides, abuse cases in Japan hit record high in 2022
Tokyo – Suicides committed by school-aged children hit a record high of 512 in 2022 in Japan, data from the education ministry showed on Thursday. According to the data, the reasons for the children taking their own lives spanned the mental burden of entrance exams to schools and universities, general woes about grades, and worries about…