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By Matteo Negri

ROME (Reuters) - Italy is failing its Roma minority by neglecting their housing rights, a monitoring body of Europe's main human rights watchdog said on Monday, in response to a complaint filed by Amnesty International.

About 140,000 Roma live in Italy, out of a total population of around 59 million. According to Amnesty, more than 15,000 of them live in shanty towns on the margins of big cities such as Rome, Milan and... (continue reading...)

By Daniel Wiessner

(Reuters) - Tesla has settled a lawsuit by a former factory employee who says she was fired for complaining about severe sexual harassment, as the electric carmaker faces a series of other cases alleging workplace sex and race discrimination.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco dismissed Tyonna Turner's 2023 lawsuit on Monday, one day after she and Tesla informed the judge of the settlement. Terms of... (continue reading...)

KYIV (Reuters) - Russia's choice of an economist as its new defence minister shows how far Moscow is preparing to go to overhaul its economy to serve its war needs, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Monday.

More than two years after Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin named Andrei Belousov - a 65-year-old former deputy prime minister who specialises in economics - as his surprise new choice for defence... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - U.S. crews in Baltimore plan to set off controlled explosions on Monday to allow them to remove a portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the bow of the massive container ship that toppled the span in March.

The detonations will break the bridge's truss into small sections, enabling salvage crews to use cranes and barges to haul away the twisted metal wreckage, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said. The work had been planned... (continue reading...)

By Nancy Lapid

(Reuters) - Twelve breast cancer genes identified in women of African ancestry in a large study published on Monday may one day help better predict their risk for the disease and highlights potential risk differences from women of European descent.

Studies to identify genetic mutations linked with breast cancer have previously mainly focused on women of European ancestry.

The new findings are drawn from more... (continue reading...)