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Month: March 2024

The Spanish region of Catalonia offers women and girls free and reusable menstruation products

By JOSEPH WILSON and RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) โ€” Spainโ€™s Catalonia region rolled out this week a pioneering womenโ€™s health initiative that offers millions of women and girls reusable menstruation products for free. About 2.5 million people in northeast Spain can receive one menstrual cup, one pair of underwear for periods, and

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Man charged with smuggling greenhouse gases from Mexico into US in first-of-a-kind prosecution

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A California man was arrested and charged Monday with allegedly smuggling potent, planet-heating greenhouse gases from Mexico, marking the first such prosecution in the US, according to a statement from the US Attorneyโ€™s Office for the Southern District of California. Michael Hart, a 58-year-old man from San Diego, pleaded

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Pritzker Prize 2024: Japanese housing pioneer Riken Yamamoto wins โ€˜Nobel of architectureโ€™

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In the Pritzker Prizeโ€™s 45-year history, no country has produced more winners than Japan. And on Tuesday, 78-year-old Riken Yamamoto was named the ninth and latest Japanese laureate of an award often dubbed the โ€œNobel of architecture.โ€ Best-known for innovative housing projects and educational institutions, Yamamoto is something of

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Pritzker Prize goes to Japanese architect who values community in spaces both public and private

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto is the 2024 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor in the field. Yamamoto, 78, has spent a five-decade career designing both private and public buildings โ€” from residences to museums to schools, from a bustling airport center to a glass-walled fire station

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Meet Ukraineโ€™s small but lethal weapon lifting morale: Unmanned sea drones packed with explosives

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press Uncrewed, remote-controlled boats have been around since the end of World War II. Late last century, technological innovations broadened their potential uses. Lethal, advanced sea drones developed and deployed by Ukraine in its war with Russia have opened a new chapter in that story. Ukraine claims it is the first

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International court seeks the arrest of 2 Russian officers over attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) โ€” The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for two high-ranking Russian military officers on charges linked to attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. The court announced warrants Tuesday for Russian Lt. Gen. Sergei Ivanovich Kobylash. He was commander of the Long-Range Aviation of the

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Health minister ‘deeply concerned’ about measles outbreaks across Canada amid struggling vaccination efforts

By Charlie Buckley/CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Federal Health Minister Mark Holland says he is “deeply concerned” about the emergence of measles outbreaks in Canada, a risk that experts say has grown as infections grow internationally and the country continues to struggle to meet vaccination targets.

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‘Burnout and dissatisfaction’: New initiative aims to keep nurses from leaving profession in Canada

By Christl Dabu/CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Canada is launching a resource to help retain and support nurses amid greater workloads, abuse as well as high rates of burnout, stress, anxiety and depression. Health Minister Mark Holland announced Monday that a new nursing retention toolkit will

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German foreign minister visits Bosnia, urges Western Balkans join EU in face of Russian aggression

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) โ€” Germanyโ€™s foreign minister says Western Balkans countries joining the European Union is a โ€œgeopolitical necessityโ€ that would make Europe stronger in the face of Russiaโ€™s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. The six nations โ€” Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia โ€” are at different stages of the EU accession process.

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BowFlex files for bankruptcy

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Peloton isnโ€™t the only at-home exercise equipment company feeling the pain: BowFlex is too, announcing Tuesday that it has filed for bankruptcy. The nearly four-decade old company, best known for commercials that were a staple of late-night television in the 1990s, filed for Chapter 11 and said

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