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PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's parliament on Thursday approved a deal to rent 300 jail cells to Denmark to help the Scandinavian country cope with overcrowded prisons.

The cells, which will be in a rebuilt prison, are intended to hold convicted criminals from non-European Union countries who were due to be deported from Denmark after their sentences.

When the deal was first announced in 2021, it prompted concerns over the treatment of... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - New vehicle sales in the United States are projected to rise in May from a year earlier, helped by demand for crossover SUVs and pickup trucks, according to a joint report by industry consultants J.D. Power and GlobalData on Thursday.

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Automakers in the United States have been shifting their focus back on higher-margin hybrids and gasoline-powered models as choppy demand for electric vehicles prompted them... (continue reading...)

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Falasteen Abdulati mourns her vanished good life as a wedding photographer as she wearily queues day after day for scarce drinking water in a rubble-strewn street in south Gaza, fearing for the future of her children.

The mother of seven is one of over two million Gazans who struggle to survive in the eighth month of an Israeli siege and invasion triggered by a cross-border Hamas attack, with food, drinking water,... (continue reading...)

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said on Thursday that it had received a report of a merchant vessel being boarded 420 nautical miles southeast of Merca, Somalia.

UKMTO said in a statement that an unknown number of unauthorised people from two small craft were reported to have boarded the vessel.

Between 2008 and 2018, Somali pirates caused havoc in the waters off the country's long... (continue reading...)

GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations expert called on Israel on Thursday to investigate multiple allegations of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.

The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, said in a statement that she had received allegations of people being beaten, kept in cells blindfolded and handcuffed for long periods.

There was no immediate... (continue reading...)