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Gazprom Export has applied for international arbitration in its dispute with PGNiG over an upward revision of a gas contract price, a demand the Polish state-owned gas monopoly has said it would fight in court. “As business negotiations on the price revision in line with above requests did not lead …

At least one US state is struggling so much to find enough teachers to keep classrooms open that it will hire teenagers who were high school students themselves less than a year ago as fill-in educators. The Kansas State Board of Education approved an emergency declaration on Wednesday, temporarily easing …

California would become the first US state to offer health insurance for all – including migrants inside the country illegally – under a new budget proposal revealed by Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat. “Here’s the big one: California is poised to be, if this proposal is supported, the first state …

Sinead O’Connor has demanded to know why her teenage son Shane was allowed to leave a Dublin hospital after several suicide attempts. He was found dead two days after slipping out of the facility. Shane O’Connor, 17, was found dead in the early hours of Saturday morning, after he was …

The Ukrainian language channel of US state-run broadcaster RFERL is making a concerted effort to rehabilitate the life and legacy of WWII-era Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, widely held by historians to have been a war criminal. A video posted by the broadcaster, registered as a “foreign agent” in Russia, earlier …

Italy’s government has issued a decree requiring that everyone 50 years old and up be vaccinated against Covid-19, exempting only those who have recently recovered from the virus or who can’t take the shots for medical reasons. The Council of Ministers unanimously approved the new mandate on Wednesday after weighing …

A massive asteroid from NASA’s ‘potentially hazardous’ list that is two and a half times the height of New York’s Empire State Building is set to pass Earth later this month. With an estimated diameter of at least a kilometer, asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 is capable of causing a worldwide …

Angered by the government lifting price caps on energy, crowds of demonstrators toppled, smashed, and set on fire police vehicles in Kazakhstan’s largest city of Almaty. Intense clashes between cops and protesters were reported. Video footage filmed on Tuesday showed mobs of protesters rocking a police van onto its side, …

Several NHS trusts have declared that “critical incidents,” such as staffing shortages and an increase in hospital admissions due to the rapid spread of Omicron, have pushed the NHS into “a state of crisis.” Speaking on Tuesday, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, Matthew Taylor, warned that the UK …

Nearly 1,000 homes were lost during the most destructive wildfire in Colorado’s history, a county sheriff has said. Authorities are looking for three people feared dead. Heavy snow that began on Friday finally extinguished the blaze, Boulder County officials said. “The structures, where these folks would be, are completely destroyed …