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No more ‘period poverty’: Scottish law makes sanitary products free
Scotland is the first country to legally protect the right of women to access free feminine hygiene items.
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Blasts at Russian base in Crimea suggest Ukrainian fightback
Ukraine hinted at responsibility for new explosions at a military base in Russian-annexed Crimea that is an important supply line for Russia’s invasion.
- by Natalia Zinets
Ukrainian rockets take out secret Wagner HQ after Russian TV ‘blunder’
Officials have not commented on rumours that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is known as “Putin’s chef”, has been killed in the strike.
- by Nataliya Vasilyeva
Britain first to approve COVID-19 vaccine targeting Omicron variant
Britain has become the first country to authorise an updated coronavirus jab that directly targets the Omicron strain of the virus.
- by Rob Harris
Assange lawyers sue CIA for allegedly spying on Wikileaks founder and his visitors in London
Lawyers for Julian Assange are suing the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo for allegedly spying on the WikiLeaks founder and his visitors when he was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
- by Latika Bourke
No room for nanny as Cambridges downsize, move closer to grandparents
Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, are having to make some adjustments.
- by Victoria Ward
Medical breakthrough converts organ to universal blood type for transplants
The blood type of a human kidney has been changed for the first time, helping to drastically reduce the amount of time many people wait for a transplant.
- by Joe Pinkston
French activists fill golf course holes with cement in protest at watering exemptions
France has told residents to avoid non-essential water usage like car-washing and watering gardens during the European drought.
- by Martyn Herman
Freya the walrus that drew Oslo crowds is put down by authorities
Officials in Norway euthanised the walrus after concluding it posed a risk to humans.
Mystery deepens over deaths of thousands of fish
Germany and Poland have been shocked by the “environmental catastrophe” along their Oder River border.
Would-be bank robber has to be rescued from tunnel by authorities
Emergency services work for eight hours to free man after tunnel collapse foiled raid on bank, police say.
- by Nick Squires